August 23, 2008

Speaker: Christina Skye

The Sensual Hero's Journey

Get ready to be shocked, enlightened and energized! Join us as Christina Skye presents an in-depth workshop showing us how to amp up our stories using the Hero's Journey model in an unexpected way – exploring our characters' sensual arcs and plotting the dynamics of their major love scenes while we probe conflict, back story and final resolution.

Forget about simply choreographing body parts. Instead, get set to choreograph movement of emotions, memories and deepest fears as we bring your characters fully alive.

After Christina's workshop, the hero's journey will never look the same!

Adventure is more than a code word to this USA Today and New York Times bestselling author. A globe-trotting China scholar, Christina has savored snake meat in Shanghai and tracked obscure folk art in Canton. She shoots firearms, treks off-road on her motorcycle and hikes mountains with equal passion. After Skye received her doctorate in classical Chinese literature, she wrote five internationally acclaimed art and cultural guides to China while also working as a consultant to the National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History. In 1990 her first novel sold to a publisher in six days.

Adventure, humor and sizzling passion are Christina's trademarks. Her books always feature smart, stubborn women and tough men. She has written nine contemporary works of romantic suspense with police/military themes, six historical romances and a series of seven wildly popular paranormal romances set at a haunted English abbey. The sixth book in her acclaimed “Code Name” series, Code Name: Bikini, is now out. This series features tough, smart women teamed with white-hot Navy SEALs.

Note that if the publisher's shipping schedule cooperates, we will have the opportunity to purchase copies of Christina's newest release, To Catch A Thief – her first new Draycott Abbey book in almost 12 years – at the meeting, before the books even hit the stores!

We meet on Saturday, August 23, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at El Parador Tropical Restaurant in Tucson, 2744 E Broadway Blvd. To reserve a spot, email Suzanne Moore at suz72350@hotmail.com. The cost includes lunch: $15 for SRW members, $20 for non-members.

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