Paint Me a Picture: The Power of Imagery

Using imagery in your story brings it to life. It paints pictures in your reader’s mind and allows them to connect with your fictional characters and their world. It’s also one of the strongest literary techniques an author can use.

Paint Me a Picture: The Power of Imagery is a four-week workshop that shows authors how to paint word pictures that will plunge your readers into your fictional world and make them want to stay.

The workshop will cover:
* Lesson One – What is Imagery
* Lesson Two – Types of Imagery
* Lesson Three – Image vs. Description
* Lesson Four – Show-Don’t-Tell
* Lesson Five – Sensory Imagery, Part 1
* Lesson Six – Sensory Imagery, Part II
* Lesson Seven – Kinesthetic Imagery
* Lesson Eight – Organic Imagery.

I believe I was destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26 years before Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17th-century “King’s Girl,” one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now the province of  Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there.

My passion for reading made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII. A former journalist and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and sometimes all three.
I’m the author of The Claddagh Series, The Wild Geese Series, the Irish Hearts Series, and the Children of the Swan Series.

A lifelong resident of Montreal, Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero. I have two adult children.