Kathleen Rowland

Please join me at my blog, PETALS IN THE GAZEBO,  for daily conversations about the crafts of life--  People, Cooking, Handicrafts, and Wordsmithing.  Your company is appreciated. Storytellers' Soiree is a gathering of writers, readers, and aspiring writers. On January 25, 2012, authors Tina Gayle, Miriam Hoffbery and I will be featured at 1 p.m. at the Cheesecake Factory in Pasadena, CA. No invitation is necessary, and attendees order their own lunch.  As writers helping writers, we will read passages that make an emotional connection, answer questions, and will discuss plotting. We promise to make it worth your while.

Who doesn't need a sexy black dress? Show off a little. Be bold. My husband and I are almost empty nesters! Gerry, a CPA, and I live in southern California where the youngest of our five children is in her second year in college. Heck, yeah, I have him all to myself. We enjoy sailing off Newport Harbor. Most of my readers know that my family crosses racial lines. Again this year, I have been teaching an online class on Point of View. My video-camera-on-the-head technique helps writers look through their character's eyes, use their voices and feel moods. I am convinced that for commercial fiction, switching point of view (POV) within a scene translates is one of the two most common reasons a manuscript is rejected. Editors call it head bobbing. Point of view is one of fiction writing’s most difficult elements to master.  My next class is for the RWA Chapter Savvy Authors. Click here to contact me about writing. Better yet, visit my blog and ask any questions you have at kathleenrowland.wordpress.com/ where I often share what I've learned about writing a compelling story.  My work-in-progess is the sequel to DEEDS OF DECEIT in my Welcome to the Lake mystery series.  It will follow Ami, the heroine Bayliss Jones' friend from DEEDS OF DECEIT.