Author Kelly Simmons: Creating Strong Female Characters

Tuesday Feb 22, 2022 - Main Line and Wilmington Writers Groups - Kelly Simmons: Creating strong female characters in your writing.

Now more than ever, publishers are looking for strong female characters because that's what readers of novels crave.
Kelly shares her ideas for creating them, no matter what your genre of fiction may be. (And answers your questions about creating compelling characters of any gender.)

Kelly is a former journalist and advertising creative director who specializes in marketing to women. She started writing after adult study at Temple University and The University of Pennsylvania. She has written six novels of suspenseful women's fiction, sold in 12 countries, been published by Simon & Schuster and Sourcebooks, and publishes free ebooks for loyal readers. She teaches writing in the Drexel MFA program and is a member of the Womens Fiction Writers Association, Tall Poppy Writers, and The Liars Club.

This is a Zoom-only meeting: here is the link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89153343635?pwd=aFowMit5NFI1VkhFYW9jOHo5NGNSUT09

See info below on meeting and membership dues.

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All regular meetings associated with the writers group are now held on Tuesday evenings! For the present, all meetings are ZOOM ONLY.

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This is a membership based group. Annual dues are $60 (that's just $5.00 a meeting, or half of that if you attend some of the other related meetings) and cover a variety of expenses including web site hosting, Meetup administration fees (you get the service free but I pay for them), the equipment, batteries, printing, guest speaker meals, etc. You are invited to alternately cover a single meeting for $10. If you decide to pay the annual dues that evening, your membership dues will cover that evening's meeting as well. Pay your membership in person at the meeting or your attendance fee IN ADVANCE through venmo or paypal to garyzenker@gmail.com.

We are flexible. We have never set a limit on the number of interested writers who can attend. If you show up without RSVPing or RSVP at the last minute, there is almost always room for you. But if you know you won't be able to make it and have RSVP'd YES, please take the time to go in and change your RSVP status to NO. Likewise, try to get your RSVP in for yes as early as possible so I can prepare the restaurant. It helps us determine any changes needed in seating arrangements.

As usual, any questions, please contact me, Gary Zenker, at 610-883-2346 or MainLineWritersGroup@gmail.com. We are all looking forward to seeing you there.