Please Note
The meetings listed below have already taken place.

Most WRW meetings are taped.  If you would like to check out the tapes from a previous meeting or workshop, please contact our Library/Archives Chair, Julie Stewart.

November 19th, at the Tysons Pimmit Library, click here for directions. 

Ever wondered what big time New York Times bestselling authors know that sets their books apart from rest? There must be a secret, right?

You know what?  There isn’t one.  It turns out there are many—as award-winning historical authors Kathryn Caskie and Sophia Nash found out when they started interviewing industry superstars. 

Join these two authors as they share tips of the trade and insider secrets from New York bestselling authors such as Anne Rice, Jennifer Crusie, Suzanne Brockmann, James Patterson and many more!  During the interactive workshop, prizes (including autographed books and a reading from a NY agent) will be distributed.

break for lunch

2 p.m.—4:30 p.m. 
“Inside the Criminal Mind:  Creating the Perfect Psychopath”
by Mary Kennedy

A forensic psychologist provides a psychological profile of a serial predator. Learn how he thinks, how he operates, how he gains access to his victims. Study the manipulation, the lures, the mind games he plays as he chooses his prey. Detailed information on creating believable dialogue, compelling courtroom scenes, intriguing face to face meetings with predators. Everything you need to create a chilling portrait of a psychopath in your novels—a mixture of clinical information and examples from popular fiction. 

Mary Kennedy is a multi-published author, and a clinical psychologist in private practice on the east coast.  She specializes in forensic work, and her clients have included murderers, psychopaths and convicted felons.

She writes young adult novels, middle grade fiction and mysteries.  She has sold 33 novels, and has made both the Waldenbooks and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists.  Her books have sold twelve million copies in several countries. Her latest book, Confessions of an Almost-Movie Star, by Berkley Trade is on sale now.

When not traveling to exotic locales, she lives with her husband and five neurotic cats.  The cats have resisted all her efforts to psychoanalyze them, but she remains optimistic. 

In December we held our annual Winter Holiday Party.