Writing Comedy with Steve Shrott
by Exsanguine Hart The most difficult part of telling a joke is realizing that it wasn’t as funny to your audience as it was to you. Why wasn’t it effective? Step aside from the assertion … Read more
Announcing China Girl, by Douglas Owen
About the Book: Young women around the world keep disappearing. Tasked with an impossible-to-solve investigation with only the heel of a shoe and three drops of blood, Detective Roberts must work with a reluctant Interpol … Read more
Branding and Marketing: With Patti Jefferson
by Exsanguine Hart How do you sell your book without actually ‘selling’ your book? Branding and marketing (BAM) are both words that strike fear into the hearts of writers for this exact reason. Patti Jefferson, … Read more
Marketing Yourself and Your Work with MJ Moores
WCYR superstar MJ Moores led the March members-only workshop, sharing her experience marketing herself and her work. MJ was clear with us – she’s not a marketer. She’s a writer, who has done the research … Read more
Social Media Super-Chargers with Anne MacLachlan
How to handle social media is something many writers and artists struggle with. Which platforms should be used? How often to post? What kind of content should be created? Our presenter, Anne MacLachlan, simplified these … Read more
Write What You Know and Give It a Twist with Diane Bator
As writers, we are often told to write what you know. In Diane Bator’s February presentation, she talked to us about writing what we know, then giving it a twist. Before the presentation began, the … Read more
Announcing All That Shines by Diane Bator
About the Book: When Sage Miller’s sister Laken decides to host a fashion show as a grand opening for the new location of Vintage Sage, she’s not amused. Even less so when she discovers her … Read more
Sequential Storytelling with Allison Danger
In January, we welcomed admirers of comics, graphic novels, and other sequential stories. Allison Danger took us on a journey through sequential storytelling. Since we are a group of writers, Allison skipped over idea generation … Read more
March 2021’s Page Turner
No one took any notice.
None of the merchants, moneylenders or friars strolling by in the twilight around San Francesco il Grande noticed the slovenly, ill-dressed man who hurried into the Franciscan church. It was the eve of a holiday, a market day, and the inhabitants of Milan were busy gathering provisions for the coming days of official mourning. Under such circumstances, it was only natural that the presence of yet another beggar left them unconcerned. Read more
Announcing Homicide on the Homestead, by Nanci Pattenden
About the Book: A farmer’s cries of murder burst through the station house doors, shattering detective Hodgins’s quiet day. Someone has bludgeoned elderly “Bucky” Buckingham and left him for dead in the barn. Despite the … Read more
Announcing Hell Hounds Don’t Heel by Kim McDougall
About the Book: Critter wrangler rule #7: Some monsters just have to die. Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail…or six feet in the ground. For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in … Read more
February 2021’s Page Turner
“I honestly think if it hadn’t been that day it would have been another.” – Bob Jessop Read more
Your Poetry Toolbox with James Dewar
Publisher, producer, teacher, editor, and writer, the WCYR was happy to welcome James Dewar to the January meeting. James took us on a journey through the poetry toolbox. Wanting this to be an interactive workshop, … Read more
Staying Connected During a Dis-Connected Time
Writers in Lockdown By MJ Moores Things won’t always be like this … at least, that’s what we have to tell ourselves in order to keep functioning. We’re not wrong. Change is happening all the … Read more
Celebrating WCYR’s mini-NaNoWriMo 2020
Two months ago, the writing world embraced National Novel Writing Month in November. For the past several years, the WCYR has contributed to NaNoWriMo by holding our own mini version, in conjunction with the word-wide … Read more