Award-winning Bestselling Author Laura Kaye Joins NaNoWriMo Event

Oct. 18, 2012 - PRLog -- (Baltimore, MD) – If you have ever said “one day, I’d like to write a novel,” then November 2012 is your month.  National Novel Writing Month — NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) — which as TerribleMinds.com has said, sounds like the more formalized greeting used by Mork when calling home to Ork — is an opportunity for writers to do what they should do daily and that is write. On November 4, from 2:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. Ukazoo Books (http://www.ukazoo.com) is hosting the NaNoWriMo event “Turn Up the Heat,” where Laura Kaye (http://www.laurakayeauthor.com) helps lead budding novelist in writing sprints that will hopefully hone their skills and build their word count, a necessity if you are going to compete in the NaNoWriMo month-long project where the goal is to write a novel, 50,000 words, in a month.

Kaye is a multi-award winning bestselling author who spends a good deal of time mentoring other authors.  “I love giving back and helping emerging authors with their craft, Kaye said recently.  “One of the fun in-person things about the NaNoWriMo events is that they take out the solitude out of writing. Being a part of the kick-off at Ukazoo Books should be a blast! It will be three and a half hour of writing sprints. You must write 1667 words every day to achieve 50,000 in a month,” Kaye added.

Kaye, who is published by Entangled Publishing (http://www.EntangledPublishing.com), is joined by fellow Entangled author, Stephanie Dray (http://stephaniedraven.com). Also sharing the day’s festivities are Eliza Knight and Christi Barth.

National Novel Writing Month is an annual (November) novel writing project that brings together professional and amateur writers from all over the world. At the Ukazoo, “Turn Up the Heat” event there will be chocolate for all, and prizes for the highest word count after each sprint. Ukazoo Books located at 730 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, Maryland.

About Laura Kaye

A published non-fiction author, Laura’s first career as a historian and training as an archaeologist help her create vivid and accurate portrays of other times and places. Laura grew up around a large extended family who believed in and regularly told stories about their own personal encounters with the supernatural. Family lore cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with the supernatural and the world of fantasy. As a prolific fiction author, Laura writes in several genres for Young Adult and Adult including Contemporary, Paranormal, Fantasy Romance and Erotic. For more about her books and series go to www.LauraKayeAuthor.com

Laura is a member of the Romance Writers of America, the Maryland Romance Writers (VP), the Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal (FF&P) chapter of the RWA, the ChickLit chapter of RWA, the Women’s Fiction chapter of the RWA , and is a frequent participant in the prestigious Iowan Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa. Laura is represented by Jennifer Schober of Spencerhill Associates.

Laura lives in Maryland with her husband, two daughters and bad dog, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day.

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