2:00 - 4:00pm

Workshop - Realigning Yearly Goals

A hands-on workshop designed to help authors recalibrate their creative and professional milestones. Through guided exercises and actionable strategies, participants will reassess their current progress, identify obstacles, and realign with their original goals for a more focused and productive rest of the year. Whether you're ahead, behind, or pivoting your priorities, this workshop offers the tools to get back on track and make the rest of the year count.

This will be in person and available online via zoom.

Koelbel Public Library

Meeting Room C

5955 S Holly St, Centennial, CO 80121

(303) 542-7279

2:00 - 4:00pm

Course: Character First, Story Second

Great stories start with great characters. The more your readers empathize and identify with your characters, the more likely they are to “stay” in your stories and your series. But how do you do that? In this talk we’ll explore four distinct ways to keep character first, story second in your writing.

This will be in person and available online via zoom.

Koelbel Public Library

Meeting Room C

5955 S Holly St, Centennial, CO 80121

(303) 542-7279

Time: TBD

Holiday Party

This will be in person and available online via zoom.

Location:

TBD

2:00 - 4:00pm

Presentation - Do you need a PA? With Madison Kemp.

As a lifetime reader of whatever she could get her hands on, Madison has niched down to romance almost exclusively, offering PA services to several indie authors within the space. With a background in operations management, a love for learning and problem solving, and an overall problem with people pleasing, she strives to make your insurmountable mountains into molehills that can be easily conquered, whether that's on your own or with outside help.

This will be in person and available online via zoom.

Koelbel Public Library

Meeting Room C

5955 S Holly St, Centennial, CO 80121

(303) 542-7279

10:30 - 12:00pm

Author Celebration

Location: Capitol Tea

RSVP REQUIRED

2:00 - 4:00pm

Presentation - Psychology of Words with S.D. Huston

Words cannot change reality, but they can change how people perceive reality. Words create filters through which people view the world around them. Knowing how to use the psychology of words, the deliberate choices of words and syntax can enhance your writing, whether writing nonfiction or fiction, and in your copywriting and marketing materials.

This will be in person and available online via zoom.

Location:

Koelbel Public Library

Meeting Room - Theatre

5955 S Holly St, Centennial, CO 80121

(303) 542-7279

2:00 - 4:00pm

Presentation - Author Samantha Cole will be presenting How to Create, Cultivate, and Maintain an Active FB Reader Group

Course includes:

How and when to start a group.

How to get your readers to join

What and when to post

Administrative settings, and more!

This will be in person and available online via zoom.

Location:

Lone Tree Public Library

10055 Library Wy, Lone Tree, CO 80124

(303) 791-7323

2:00 - 4:00pm

Due to multiple requests, the original workshop for making group graphics was cancelled and replaced with a self-editing class.

Location:

Koelbel Public Library

5955 S Holly St, Centennial, CO 80121

(303) 542-7279

2:00 - 4:00pm

Presentation - Digital Accessibility for Authors: Top Three Things to Make Your Content Usable and Inclusive

If the text and images you post online aren’t accessible, you can miss out on connecting with your readers. In this webinar, Jeff will discuss digital accessibility, why it’s important, and look at the top 3 things you can do to help make sure what you’re putting online is available to everyone.

Location:

Koelbel Public Library

Meeting Room C

5955 S Holly St, Centennial, CO 80121

(303) 542-7279

2:00 - 4:00pm

Presentation - Niche author cross promotion and mastermind groups. Michelle Fox will talk about her experiences forming and running The Wolf Pack & author coop to leverage author cross promotion with similar subgenres.

This will be in person and available online via zoom.

Location:

Englewood Public Library

Anderson Room

1000 Englewood Pkwy, Englewood, CO 80110

(303) 762-2560

Workshop - Michelle Fox talked marketing strategies, so let's put them into practice. I'll have some universal memes for us to test ads with. Plus we can chat co-oping marketing and promotions. I figure being taught is one thing, but sometimes learning by doing is important too.

Romance Writers of the Rockies Spring 2024 Writers Retreat at The Hideaway

1pm on Saturday, March 23rd through 2pm Tuesday, March 26th 2024

We have the entirety of The Hideaway booked for this event. We'll have the meeting space from 1pm Saturday through 2pm Tuesday. Room check-in will be available at 4pm Saturday.

Registrants are expected to pay via Paypal within 2 weeks of registering. Your registration will be considered complete when payment has been processed.