 About Kat | Workshops Offered
Kat Henry Doran, AKA Kathy Cottrell, is a registered nurse with 30+ years of experience in the operating room, labor and delivery, clinical instructor, ICU, long term care, and nursing administration. Currently she travels the length of Upstate New York, investigating allegations of medical malpractice.
For twelve years she was associated with the Regional Rape Crisis Service of Rochester, NY, first as a volunteer advocate, then worked her way up the ladder to staff coordinator, assistant director, then director of the four county crisis intervention program which served an average of 1,000 victims and significant others each year. Her most recent role with RCS was as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, or SANE.
Kat uses all that experience, not only in her writing but in the professional workshops which help authors incorporate accuracy into their writing. Particularly, Kat speaks about the impact of sexual violence on victims, the community and advocates.
Workshops on Sexual Assault
Kat Henry Doran, nurse/author/advocate/investigator
KatHenryDoran@aol.com
Handouts and resource sites provided
Title: They Ain't All Named Bundy, Dahmer, or Gacey
Length: 90 minutes
A nurse/victim advocate shares her years of experience working in the trenches with sexual assault victims, dispelling the myths and misconceptions about sex offenders so that authors don't fall into the traps presented by print and electronic media.
New England Romance Writers
Conference, May 2009; RWA Dallas 2007; Maryland Romance Writers,. May 2007
Title: Paper Not Plastic
Length: 90 minutes
Don't let your book be the one that's thrown against the wall by someone who knows the scoop. Using her experience as a victim advocate and sexual assault nurse examiner, author Kat Henry Doran shows writers how not to repeat the horrendous mistakes she has seen on TV, movie screens, and read in that NYT best seller.
Maine Romance Writers Retreat, May 2009; Lake Country Romance Writers, September, 2007; RWA Dallas, 2004.
Title: The Wit and Wisdom of Victim Advocates
Length: 60 minutes
Nurse/advocate Kat Henry Doran's goal is to educate and inform writers about a little known and under-appreciated profession. What draws people into “the life”. What keeps them there; what drives them away; what are the possible story lines.
Workshops from An Editors POV
Kathy Cottrell, Senior Editor, The Wild Rose Press
KDCottrell@aol.com
Title: An Editor's Wish List.
Length: 60 minutes
A former nurse/victim advocate/insurance investigator turned editor shares her years of experience working in the trenches with fledging authors and explains how to turn a submission into something that brings an editor up out of her chair, singing the Hallelujah Chorus.
Lilac City-Rochester Writers, April 2009; Maine Romance Writers Retreat, May, 2008.
Title: Do Your Research
Length: 60 minutes
Don't let your book be the one that's thrown against the wall by someone who knows the scoop. Using her experience as a victim advocate and sexual assault nurse examiner, Wild Rose Press Senior Editor Kathy Cottrell shows writers how not to repeat the horrendous mistakes she's seen on TV and movie screens, or read in that NYT best seller and submissions that come across her desk.
Title: Creating Memorable Characters
Length: 60 minutes
Why does that book, written maybe 25-30 years ago, remain dust free on your bookshelf? Why do you return to that dog-eared, held-together-by-a-rubber-band copy of something you read back when the Four Seasons sang about December '63? Wild Rose Press Senior Editor Kathy Cottrell's goal is to show new writers how to go back to basics and turn out a product that brings an editor right out of her chair, singing the Hallelujah Chorus.
Western New York Romance Writers, November 2009.
New England Romance Writers conference, March, 2010.
Title: Write What You Know
Length: 60 minutes
Question: What do Eileen Dryer, Tess Gerritsen, Lisa Scottoline, Michael Connolly, Scott Turow, Frank G. Slaughter, and Robert K. Tannenbaum have in common?
Answer: They write about what they know.
GOAL: Using the RIFLE approach, we'll turn the everyday and mundane into something unique by using persons, places and/or things you know.
Liberty States Fiction Writers, May, 2010 newsletter
Title: Make That Setting as Memorable as Those Characters
Length: 60 minutes
The setting should play as big a role in the story as the characters and, in fact, deserves the same time, care, and consideration we employ when we invent our 'living' things. Using the RIFLE approach along with an inverted triangle, we'll begin globally and work our way down to individual sets.
You Gotta Read blogsite, May 2010
Rochester Romance Examiner, May 2010
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