Next Meeting: June 4, 2011

Patricia Grasso: Plotting with Panache

Boring beginnings?   Sagging middles?   Flat endings?
Both plotters and pantsers need well-structured stories.  Plotting with panache—a dashing style of confidence, flamboyance, courage—will cure what ails your story.  Learn the plotting secrets that will keep readers turning pages and prevent reviewers from using deadly adjectives—boring, sagging, flat—to describe your masterpiece.

Patricia Grasso is the author of eighteen historical romances that have won various awards:  National Readers’ choice Award, New England Readers’ Choice Award, Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice and KISS Awards as well as B. Dalton and Bookrak Awards for best-selling first time author. A dog person who lives with ten cats, Patricia lives in the Boston area.  She earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at a state college and, for too many years, used her “leisure” time to teach in a public high school.