Forum: April 2012

The Writer's Mind-Body Connection - April 16-29, 2012

We can all agree that caffeine wakes you up, a scary situation causes your body to produce adrenaline, and certain boring books put you to sleep. But the mind-body connection goes so much further than that. Research continues to prove just how closely our minds and bodies are connected, which has huge implications for writers. Are there foods you can eat to make you more creative? Will the time of day you work out affect the number of pages you write in a day? Can writing an emotional scene make you mad at your husband? Join author Kara Lennox for a fun and interesting two weeks, learning about the latest research and how you can apply it to your life to improve your writing (and maybe improve your life).

Kara Lennox is our Seminar Host

Kara Lennox (a.k.a. Karen Leabo) has been a student of meditation and yoga for decades. She has been long fascinated with the illusive and sometimes magical-seeming connections between mind and body, reading every book or piece of research she can get her hands on, particularly as they apply to creativity and productivity. Kara has written more than 60 contemporary romance novels for Harlequin/Silhouette and Bantam Loveswept. Currently she is working on her next book in the Project Justice romantic suspense series, published by Harlequin Super Romance Since her first novel was released in 1989, her books frequently appear on romance bestseller lists. They have been translated into 18 languages and published in twenty-plus countries around the world. Kara's books have finaled in several romance industry contests including the National Readers' Choice Awards, the Holt Medallion competition, and the RITA.Her Harlequin American Romance PLAIN JANE'S PLAN won a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice award.