Valley of the Sun Romance
Writers
Sponsored Seasonal Events
Past events Regular events 2010-2011 events
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Friday February 4, Saturday, February 5 & Sunday, February 6, 2011
THE
GLENDALE CHOCOLATE AFFAIRE
Each year
on the first weekend of February
Local and out of state best-selling romance authors autograph their books at this celebration of love and chocolate, in Murphy Park, NE corner of Glendale and 59th Avenue. Several writing workshops are also scheduled during the event, open to the public, free of charge. Visit our booth at the NE corner of Murphy Park, in front of the Civic Center Building, across from the shuttle pick up. Buy a book and have it autographed as a souvenir. Romance novels, like chocolate, make great Valentine's Day presents.
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April 6th
through April 10th, 2011
Romantic Times Convention
This is a huge, annual, fan-based convention that will take place in 2011 in nearby Los Angeles, at the Bonaventure Hotel, so you may want to put this on your calendar. For more information check out: www.rtconvention.com.
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Saturday, May 14, 2024 - 9 am to 5 pm
Hilton Garden Inn - Northwest Phoenix
WRITERS
ROUND UP MINI CONFERENCE
This year, Valley of the Sun is bringing in a magical workshop called, Discovering Story Magic, presented by Laura Baker and Robin Perini. This workshop will transform how you construct your stories and will help make them the marketable product New York hungers for. How do I know? I used the Discovering Story Magic basic story structure to create three synopses for the deal I landed with St. Martin�s in December of 2009! You can�t miss with this one. So, put it on your calendars.
Details and registration HERE
Open to the public - $40.00 for the public - $35.00 for RWA Members.
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Saturday, June 4, 2024
ARIZONA DREAMIN'
A reader-based event at a local hotel in which authors will attend to �talk, read, sell and sign� and readers will attend to �play, meet authors, win prizes and party hardy for a night.�
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RWA National Conference
The 31st annual national conference for 2011 will be held in New York City at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel.Check out the RWA website for more information:
www.rwanationalconference.org
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HOT PROSPECT CONTEST
Deadline August
Click
HERE for more information.
This annual contest is open to all unpublished members of Romance Writers of America all over the country (or unpublished in the category entered). Deadline 2009: TBA (sometime in August). Besides cash prizes and recognition in RWR for all placed in each category, win a chance to be read by an editor or a literary agent.
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Every other year in April - Next in April 2012
DESERT
DREAMS CONFERENCE
Click here
or on logo for conference information
The Desert Dream Writers Conference, a regular event organized by our sister chapter, Desert Rose Romance Writers of America, receives our active support. This event attracts writers of all genres, agents, editors and publishers from all over the nation. For detailed program information and online registration, visit Desert Rose Chapter's website.
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Events we sponsored in the past
and may or may not sponsor again in the future
HAUNTED WRITERS RETREAT
Mid October
(not in 2010)
Each fall, the Valley of
the Sun Romance Writers take a haunted retreat,
usually at the Grand Hotel, a well known haunted resort in
Jerome, AZ,
and enjoy a weekend of paranormal thrills, creative
brainstorming,
tarot cards, astrology, divining, and relaxation on paranormal
themes.
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TEMPE ART FESTIVAL
Last weekend of March and first weekend of December
- 10 am until dusk
Click HERE for more information
This festival gathers artists and food vendors in the town of Tempe which becomes a pedestrian town along Mill Avenue and the adjacent streets. The Romance authors used to autograph their books outside BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC, at the corner of Mills and 7th Street. Since this store closed their doors in January 2009, however, this popular book signing is cancelled.
ARIZONA BOOK
FESTIVAL
The first Saturday of April (on hiatus in
2008 and 2009) May or may not resume
The Romance Writers usually have a booth and autograph their latest novels at this event in Phoenix each year, come for the books, the bargains, the food, the entertainment. Authors are speaking on several stages in the Carnegie park around the old Carnegie Library, downtown Phoenix, at 11th street and Jefferson.
WOMEN'S EXPO
Usually
in the spring - dates vary greatly from April to June
The Romance
Writers of both Phoenix Chapters (Valley of the Sun and Desert
Rose)
used to sponsor a booth at this annual event.
They may or may not resume this sponsorship in the future.