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Holiday Novellas & Novelettes SPECIAL GIFT EVENT
December 20 through December 25, 2019
All Day
Enjoy your FREE download of Mara’s award-winning
Holiday Novellas and Novelettes
https://www.marapurl.com/Xmas-Novellas
featuring Where an Angel’s On a Rope, When Angels Paint and Whose Angel Key Ring
THIS CONFERENCE WAS CANCELED
DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC
LCC WILL RETURN IN 2021
Mara Purl – Presenter/ Panelist
Left Coast Crime Annual Book Con “Murder’s A Beach”
March 12 – 15th 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
San Diego Marriott Mission Valley
8757 Rio San Diego Dr,
San Diego, CA 92108
Left Coast Crime website
http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/2020/index.html
Left Coast Crime is an annual mystery convention sponsored by mystery fans, both readers and authors. LCC is held during the first quarter of the year in Western North America. Conventions have been held from Anchorage to El Paso, from Boulder to Hawaii, and various locations in between.
Mara will be one of the many authors participating in panel discussions and other programming on a wide variety of topics designed to allow interaction between readers and writers. This high-energy, dynamic and fun event is filled with opportunities for insights, connections, special meals, and is always an unforgettable event!
Mara Purl – Presenter/ Panelist
Left Coast Crime Annual Book Con “Murder’s A Beach”
San Diego Marriott Mission Valley
8757 Rio San Diego Dr,
San Diego, CA 92108
Left Coast Crime website
http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/2020/index.html
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Audio Book Panel
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Left Coast Crime is an annual mystery convention sponsored by mystery fans, both readers and authors. LCC is held during the first quarter of the year in Western North America. Conventions have been held from Anchorage to El Paso, from Boulder to Hawaii, and various locations in between.
Mara will be one of the many authors participating in panel discussions and other programming on a wide variety of topics designed to allow interaction between readers and writers. This high-energy, dynamic and fun event is filled with opportunities for insights, connections, special meals, and is always an unforgettable event!
THIS CONFERENCE IS POSTPONED
DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC
CHECK BACK FOR RESCHEDULED DATE
Mara Purl – Presenter
Writers In Action Third Annual Conference “The Building Blocks of Story”
September ?? from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
A one-day interactive workshop for writers of all skill levels. Each 60-minute workshop will provide a 30-minute presentation by a skilled author followed by 30 minutes of writing time. Each workshop will flow naturally into the next with the writing segment building on the previous one. The final event will be a panel of authors who will provide feedback on the writing created throughout the day.
Each workshop segment will be professionally recorded by After Hours Recording Company. Following the workshop attendees will have the option of purchasing any, or all, of the recorded segments.
Mara Purl – Opening Session
“Premise & Theme”
PG&E Energy Education Center
6588 Ontario Road
San Luis Obispo, California 93405
Mara Purl – Presenter – Giving Your Book a Voice
March 20th 9:00 – 10:00 am
Mara Purl – Presenter
Writers of Kern
Meeting held on Zoom
Writers of Kern Website
https://writersofkern.com
Heard any good books lately? That may “sound” like an odd question. Maybe the last time someone read you a story, you were seven years old trying to keep your eyes open long enough to hear the ending. But audio is sweeping the nation, so if you haven’t become a listener yet, you may soon find yourself in the minority.
As an author — what does this mean to you? It means you have an opportunity for market exposure, an expanded audience, and increased sales if you produce your existing books as audio books. Sounds simple! And it is . . . sort of. If done right, your audio books can give you, your brand, and your success a turbo boost. However, if done wrong, you risk damaging all the work you’ve done so far.
Join Mara as she reveals the process of creating a professional audiobook from opening credits to final edit.
Q&A following the presentation!
May 3rd @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Mara Purl & Rebecca Forster discuss
“Writing the Paranormal”
A Wordeee University Event
National Paranormal Day
Host – Patrice Samara, Wordeee COO
Guests – Best-selling authors Mara Purl & Rebecca Forster
Presented on Zoom
Join best-selling authors Mara Purl and Rebecca Forster as they discuss their first Paranormal Novels. Their author journeys in writing these books is both personal and professional, with unusual experiences, discoveries, and synchronicities. Enjoy the conversation as they discuss their technical challenges, as well as their spiritual breakthroughs, and listen to the Q&A following the presentation!
Mara Purl – Presenter – Mentors & the Author’s Path
May 11, 2021 from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Mara Purl – Presenter
SLO NightWriters
Meeting held at
United Church of Christ
11235 Los Osos Valley Road
San Luis Obispo, California
SLO NightWriters Website
http://www.slonightwriters.org/
Join Mara on a journey through her varied and fascinating career as she reveals who were some of her major influencers, teachers and mentors. Enjoy stories about Louis L’Amour, James Michener, Margaret Coel, Joseph Campbell and several others. Hear how she went from television star to her own radio drama creator and from script writer to best-selling novelist.
Book Signing following the presentation!
Book Presentation
Mara Purl – Presenter
Central Coast Sisters in Crime
“Crystal Clear Characters:
Using Color Theory & Myers Briggs Personality Test
to Create Unforgettable Characters”
Sisters in Crime Meeting
https://www.facebook.com/groups/165371176957155
Check their Facebook page for Zoom link.
October 9, 2021
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join Mara as she dives deep into creating characters that have both adhesion within themselves, and distinction from one another. How does one character’s reaction differ from another’s? How do the background, instincts, life experiences and expectations influence their behavior? How can you enroll your readers in coming to know and trust how your characters will behave, what they’ll say, and how they’ll tackle a crisis?
Mara Purl – Presenter
Fiction Factors – Build Your Book and Soar into the Publishing Skyline
SLO NightWriters
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Meeting Room, United Church of Christ
11245 Los Osos Valley Road
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
Join Mara Purl for a Master Class into writing fiction! This multi-segment interactive session takes you from core values to sophisticated techniques for writing you novel, novella, or series in your chosen genre. Fiction Factors: Build your Book and Soar into the Publishing Skyline takes you through seven separate power-point presentations, each of which is designed to create a breakthrough in critical aspects of your author-life and writing skills, and integrates your author and marketing goals:
- Author Declaration.
- Blueprint Premise & Theme.
- Character Arcs & Crystal Clear Characters.
- Narrative Voice & Structure.
- Dialogue & Sub-Text.
- Core Messaging.
- Includes worksheet handouts and in-session work on your own project.
