2009 Winter Rose Awards Luncheon

featuring Deborah Crombie and
Keynote: Joan Johnston

Date: May 16, 2009
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Location:
Bessie Mitchell House
411 Ball Street
Grapevine, TX  76051

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Registration Deadline: May 1, 2009
Registration Fee:
$30 for YR/NT/DARA Members / $40 Non-Members / $50 Late Registration

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Come join us! Yellow Rose Romance Writers is hosting our annual Winter Rose Awards Luncheon to announce winners in the 2009 Winter Rose Contest.

We are proud to welcome New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston, presenting her workshop Writing The Unputdownable Novel, as keynote speaker, and award-winning author Deborah Crombie, presenting her workshop, Every Good Novel Is A Mystery.

Both speakers will be signing their books on Friday, May 15, 2009 from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Barnes & Noble in Southlake located at 1430 Plaza Place, Southlake, Texas. Everyone is invited to come out to this event and meet the authors! Cost is free to attend. Click here for store details and a map.

About The Speakers

Joan Johnston is an award-winning author of forty-six novels and formerly an attorney. She has also worked as a newspaper editor and drama critic, a director of theatre and as a college professor, most recently at the University of Miami, Florida. Joan has a B.A. in theatre arts from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida, an M.A. in theatre from the University of Illinois in Urbana and received her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Joan has traveled extensively researching her books (the Captive Hearts series and the Bitter Creek series) which have appeared on the New York Times, USA TODAY and Publisher's Weekly Bestseller Lists. Joan is a member of the Authors Guild, Novelists, Inc., Romance Writers of America and Florida Romance Writers. She divides her time between homes in Colorado and Florida.

Deborah Crombie, a native Texan and award-winning novelist, graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, with a degree in biology. She then worked in advertising and newspapers, and attended the Rice University Publishing Program. After a trip to England, she developed a life-long passion for Britain, immigrating to the UK to live in Edinburgh, Scotland and then Chester, England. Returning to Dallas years later, she wrote her first Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid/Sergeant Gemma James novel, A Share in Death, which garnered Agatha and Macavity nominations for Best First Novel of 1993. Her novels have received critical acclaim and are widely read internationally in numerous countries. Although she travels to England several times a year, Crombie now lives in McKinney, Texas. Her twelfth Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novel, Where Memories Lie, is currently available from Amazon.Com and other booksellers.

If you have any questions regarding the luncheon, please email us at info@yellowroserwa.com.