As we previously announced, the
Indiana Writers’ Consortium is please to have Catherine Lanigan as the keynote
speaker for the 2017 Steel Pen Creative Writers’ Conference. She is the
bestselling author of over forty published fiction and non-fiction titles,
including the novelizations of Romancing
the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile.
In addition to giving the keynote
speech, Catherine will present a workshop based on her craft book, Writing the Great American Romance Novel.
That book and several of her others will be on sale at the conference, and she
will sign them during the cocktail hour.
The title says this is an
introduction, and that’s all it is. Catherine’s accomplishments are too many
and too varied to do justice to in a blog post. What follows is just a sample.
Catherine is the author of the
novelizations of Romancing the Stone and
The Jewel of the Nile. But what is a
“novelization?” It simply means that the movie came first. Although Catherine
didn’t create the original story line, few writers get the chance to novelize
an award-winning movie. Just being given the opportunity is a great honor.
Some sources list the author as “Joan
Wilder.” For those of you not in the know, Joan Wilder is a fictional romance
writer who has the lead female role in the movies and is, of course, the female
protagonist in the books. In recent years, however, Joan has shared the credit
with Catherine, as she should.
Catherine is known primarily for
her contemporary romance novels, which include the Shores of Indian Lake series
for Harlequin Heartwarming. She also writes historical fiction such as Web of Deceit and Wings of Destiny and romantic suspense such as Friday Papers.
But Catherine doesn’t just write novels.
Her non-fiction includes true stories in several of the Chicken Soup anthologies, a trilogy of books regarding angelic
intervention in human life, and her craft book, Writing the Great American Romance Novel.
Nor is Catherine’s work limited to
one medium. She recently completed a screenplay for the Oracle Film Group. Powder Pup Mountain Rescue will be aired
on Netflix sometime this year, although the exact date is still to be
announced.
There is plenty more, but it won’t
fit here. For additional information on Catherine and her books, check out her
website at www.catherinelanigan.com. You can also
visit her on Facebook, LinkedIn, Goodreads, Pinterest, Google+, and
Twitter@cathlanigan.
Better yet, come hear Catherine
speak at the 2017 Steel Pen Creative Writers’ Conference on October 28. It will
be held at the conference center at Fair Oaks Farms just off I-65 near
Rensselaer, Indiana. Registration will open in June.
Additional information on the
conference will be posted at www.inwriters.org/steel-pen-conference as it becomes
available.
We hope to see you there.
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