Field Notes from NINC: What the Pros Are Talking About Right Now

Every fall, a few hundred working novelists take over a beach resort in Florida for three and a half days of shop talk you rarely hear in public.

NINC (Novelists, Inc.) is a members-only conference for professional authors. There’s an income requirement to get in the door, which means the sessions skip the basics and go straight to contracts, ad spend, pricing, rights, and the decisions that shape a career instead of a single book.

Bestselling authors Lynn Raye Harris and Linda Winstead Jones are going this month, and they’re bringing it back to our October meeting: what the pros are actually paying for, where the industry thinks things are heading, and the hallway conversations that never make it into a slide deck.

Open to visitors. If you write fiction and you’re curious what the professional side of this business looks like right now, come sit in.

📅 Saturday, October 10  |  🕐 Noon  |  📍 Decatur Library, upstairs meeting room

AUTHOR BIOS:

Lynn Raye Harris

Lynn Raye Harris is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hostile Operations Team® series of military romances, along with 20 Harlequin Presents titles and the Ghost Ops series. A former finalist for RWA’s Golden Heart and the National Readers Choice Award, she lives in Alabama with her former-military husband, her cat, and one spoiled American Saddlebred. Her books have sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide.

Linda Winstead Jones

Linda Winstead Jones is the bestselling author of more than eighty romance novels and novellas spanning paranormal, romantic suspense, twisted fairy tales, and cowboys. Easily distracted by new characters and ideas, she writes the stories that call to her in the moment. Her books are for readers who want to escape reality for a while—who enjoy the occasional trip into another world for a laugh, a chill, or a heartwarming tear. Recently her writing time has been divided between cowboys in the Old West and small town contemporary ghost stories.

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