Margie Lawson is a counseling psychologist who’s been a college professor, workshop presenter, keynote speaker, clinical trainer, sex therapist, Director of an Impotence Clinic, hypnotherapist, and writer.  Margie likes to live her life at the top.  She lives in a log home at the top of a Colorado mountain — and she enjoys flying with her favorite pilot, her husband. 

Check out the panoramic view from her writing window and pictures of their home-built plane on her web site.  She likes the symmetry of living at the same altitude, almost 9000 feet, that they frequently fly.  Tom built their four-seater plane that they fly coast-to-coast. He’s a multi-rated pilot, but when the weather is clear, Margie’s been known to take the controls for a couple of hours and loves the freedom and challenge of flying.

Margie and her husband are coauthoring a psychological suspense that is all about risks — from internal risks to taking risks in the skies.  No surprise that their writing includes psychology and airplanes. 

Writers who have taken Margie’s editing courses are pleased to know that she’s turning her fresh editing techniques into a deep editing workbook.  She hopes her workbook will fly in 2008.

Margie speaks at writing conferences and presents full-day workshops to writing organizations internationally.  Visit her web site to learn more about her workshops and on-line courses:  Empowering Characters’ Emotions, Defeat Self-Defeating Behaviors, and Deep Editing:  The EDITS System, Rhetorical Devices, and More.

Margie enjoys educating and energizing writers in her one and two-day master classes. Her  2008 presentation schedule may bring her to your part of the world.  Here’s the line-up:

Jan. 26 — Columbus, Ohio

Feb 9 –  Houston, Texas

March 1 — Shreveport, Louisiana

March 6, 7, 8, 9, — Left Coast Crime, Denver, Colorado

April 1 and 2 — Tacoma, Washington

May 3 — Detroit, Michigan

May 17 –  Fort Worth, Texas

August 22 – 24 —  Melbourne, Australia

Sept, 12, 3, 14  –  Denver, Colorado

Sept. 13, 19, 20, 21  — Minneapolis, Minnesota

Oct 3, 4, 5 –  Atlanta, Georgia

 Margie is a member of International Thriller Writers, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and four chapters of the Romance Writers of America.  She is the Program Coordinator for the 2008 Left Coast Crime Conference. 

Please visit her website for more information regarding her on-line courses and Lecture Packets. www.MargieLawson.com  .    If you are interested in having Margie present a one or two-day master class for your writing group, please e-mail her:  margie@margielawson.com.