Posts By: Margaret Taylor
M.A. Taylor spent over twenty years in law enforcement. The first seven years were spent with the California Highway Patrol (CHP), she left to become a Special Agent for the California Department of Justice (DOJ), spending over ten years in Narcotics. Four of those years Margaret was assigned to a Federal DEA-HIDTA Task Force. Margaret’s many areas of expertise range from surveillance to wiretaps to Tribal Gaming, sexual predators and many others.
SoCalRW’s 4th Quarter 2023 S.M.A.R.T. Goals Challenge SoCalRW’s S.M.A.R.T. Goals Challenge By Pamela Moran Come and join your fellow SoCalRW members for the new quarterly SoCalRW S.M.A.R.T. Goals Challenge! The holidays will be here soon, how do you stay on track with your goals when everything around you is vying for your attention? S.M.A.R.T. Goals…
Join Southern California Romance Writers (SoCalRW) and Beth Hudson for three Zoom Classes: 10/11 class - Your first draft is finished... What do you do now? Revision is an art, just like writing, and it's a skill we hone and improve with each new draft and book. Join us as we learn how to find…
BUILDING CONFLICT FROM THE HEAD DOWN (May 8-19) groups.io/g/ConflictHD Great conflict comes from not only the situation, but from within the characters themselves. This class offers tools for shaping basic personalities into heroic, appealing characters who'll naturally wind up in conflict. Explore the various types, archetypes and subtypes -- ideal for creating clashes between genuinely…
They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day – well, a book wasn’t written in a day either. But how do you accomplish such a monumental task? One word at a time … one sentence … one paragraph … one chapter. On April first, we are looking at our April Challenge differently. We are…
SoCalRW’s S.M.A.R.T. Goals Challenge By Pamela Moran Six months feels like a long time, but was October really all that long ago? Here we are, almost April, and I have a question for you: What kind of progress - with your writing and in your career - have you made since October? What about those…
February 11, 2023 Literacy Event It’s time once again to celebrate our love of reading and encourage others to become lifelong readers too! Southern California Romance Writers invites you to participate in this year's Literacy Event, on Saturday, February 11, 2023 featuring: Rebekah R. Ganiere Playing God – Worldbuilding For All Genres: Great Worldbuilding Is…
April's RWA San Diego chapter meeting featured a shout-out and pep talk to members participating in the April Writing Chapter from 2019 Vice President & President-Elect CJ Corbin. In addition to high-energy encouragement, CJ hinted at personalized awards awaiting members who achieve their writing challenge goal before the end of the month. CJ also shone…
It’s about time to get back into the blogs! Be on the look-out for the post meeting wrap ups after each monthly meeting. March’s pre-St. Patrick’s Day meeting welcomed security expert Jack Davidson. With more than 30 years of law enforcement and personal security experience, Jack provided members with insights regarding the ins and…
