Angi PLATT

Angi is an 11th generation Texan and loves everything about the state. She has a terrific, supportive hubby, supportive family and friends. In fact, no one makes fun of her writing romance. Two of her children are out on their own: her son is a Marine stationed in California, married with a daughter and son. Her oldest daughter lives close by and is also married with a daughter and son. In 2006, the family added a foster daughter in her senior high school year. Her youngest daughter keeps Angi busier than when all three lived at home with academics, marching band, and high school softball.

 

Speaking of softball...  Almost every spring and early summer evening, Angi umpires Girls Fastpitch or attends one of her daughter’s games or practices. She’s in her seventeenth year of coaching -- yep, she began when her youngest was six days old. She's volunteered by scheduling games, by helping with the Middle School & High School bands, arranging food for athletes before school events, umpiring for Special Olympics and charity tournaments and ... well the list could go on...

 

A full-time writer -- whenever she’s not driving or volunteering somewhere -- she loves to write fish-out-of-water stories, time travels and romantic suspense. She considers herself very fortunate to have landed a supportive agent who believes in her and her work.

 

Angi has been a member of RWA^® and Dallas Area Romance Authors since March '99 serving as the DARA Newsletter Editor 2 years, half a year as Historian, and four years on the Dreamin' In Dallas Conference committee. She received her PRO pin in 2001 and joined NTRWA in 2003 serving as the Publicity Coordinator for the last two years and is the current treasurer. She served as the RWA^® Region 5 National Director in 2002 and 2003. She helped with the 2004 NT Great Expectations Contest and coordinated the '05, '06 & '07 contests.

 

Angi has overseen RWA's National ContestLink for Contest Coordinators since late 2001 and runs RomanceContests, an announcement only loop for writers interested in contests (over 580 members). She runs an on-line critique group, Romance Critters, which has over 75 members and she is a sponsor for Tex-Critiquers -- an on-line group for NT moderated by Gina Nelson. Angi was in charge of the 2004, 2005 and 2006 RWA^® National Conference Literacy signing volunteers and will be again in 2007 when RWA meets in Dallas. Currently she is a member of the National Long Range Planning Committee.

 

Angi won/wrote a chapter of the eHarlequin Writing Round Robin in 2001 and highly recommends participating in this bi-weekly challenge. Recently The Rancher and the Rose, the mini book she helped create, was made available by Harlequin as a free download.

 

One of those writers that you either love or hate her work, she rarely finaled in contests...but continued to give them a shot, working her way up the rankings until becoming a double finalist in the 2004 Great Expectations Contest and winning the Romantic Suspense category with ERRANT RHODES. She has placed third in the Laurie Romantic Suspense category, second in the Romance Through The Ages Paranormal category, first in the Golden Gateway Romantic Suspense category, and first in the Barclay Sterling Long Contemporary category. She judges from ten to twelve contests per year and works with all levels of critique partners.

 

Angi was a 2004 RWA^® Golden Heart finalist in Romantic Suspense with her work: RUNNING FROM LOVE (currently retitled LOVE ON THE RUN). Her personal on-line critique group consisted of five Golden Heart finalists and three Golden Heart winners. Three have recently become published authors, selling to Temptation, Intimate Moments & Avalon. Angi now critiques on-line with a smaller group of three GH finalists, two of whom have won and are published.

 

To receive announcement reminders about writing contests:

       RomanceContests-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you are an RWA chapter contest coordinator:

       ContestLink-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To critique on-line:

       http://romancecritters.com/

       Rom-Critters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

       Tex-Critiquers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

            (NTRWA & DARA members)

If you’d like a specific volunteer job at the National Conference Literacy Signing in Dallas:

       Email Angi Platt

  

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