{"id":22,"date":"2008-05-29T17:53:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T21:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-05-29T17:53:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T21:53:24","slug":"ottawa-romance-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Romance Writers&#8217; Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to take the plunge and register for this year&#8217;s conference that takes place the last weekend in September. Luckily for me, I registered early enough that I&#8217;m confirmed in the draw for a critique! I was one of the first forty to register so that automatically put me in the draw. There are five representatives in total from publishing houses, an agent, and a published author who will be doing the critiques.<\/p>\n<p>So friends and fans of my writing, keep your fingers crossed for me that I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones &#8211; or the lucky one, depending on how things are done. The conference registrar thought there would be five individual draws but she would have to double check. Either way, sounds like pretty good odds and I&#8217;ll be rubbing shoulders and networking with the right kind of people to get me that much closer to having one of my novels published.<\/p>\n<p>Guess that means I best get my skates on and finish novel #2 which is currently about 50% complete. I know the beginning, the middle and pretty much the end and have written segments from each of those sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to take the plunge and register for this year&#8217;s conference that takes place the last weekend in September. 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