MARCH PROGRAM | GA Romance Writers

Programs

March 18th Program

The Haunted Author: Writing the Story
that Keeps You Up at Night

Speaker:

Kimberly Brock

Kimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost
Book of Eleanor Dare and her award-winning debut,
The River Witch.

The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare spent three weeks on
The Southern Independent Booksellers Bestseller List.

Her debut was an Amazon bestseller featured by both national and international book clubs and included in multiple reading lists. Praised by RT Reviews and Huffington Post as a “solemn journey of redemption, enlightenment and love,” and evocative of “the stories of Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers,” Kimberly’s debut novel was honored with the prestigious Georgia Author of the Year Award in 2013, by the Georgia Writer’s Association.

A former actor and special needs educator, Kimberly received her bachelor’s degree from the University of West Georgia in 1996. In 2014, Kimberly founded Tinderbox Writer’s Workshop, a transformative creative experience for women in the arts. Kimberly has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national groups, including The Women’s Fiction Writer’s annual conference and The Pat Conroy Literary Center. She lives near Atlanta with her husband and three children.

Talk

Can’t sleep? Story keeping you up? That’s a sure sign that you are a haunted author. But the stories that won’t let us go are often the hardest to tell. How do you exorcise the tales that have followed us the longest? Join bestselling author Kimberly Brock as she shares her struggles and advice for bringing the story that won’t let you sleep to the page and why all stories are ghost stories.