Saturday, April
5
8:30am
Conference Check-In / Registration
9:45am Welcome and
Introduction
10-11am “Hook ‘Em, Dano” –
Writing the Grabber Opening Scene
with RITA-Award winner Linnea Sinclair (An
Accidental Goddess, Games of Command,
Gabriel’s Ghost, The Down Home Zombie Blues)
11:15-11:45am BOOKSIGNINGS
11:30am-1:30pm **LUNCHEON & BOOKSIGNING
with JANET EVANOVICH and KARNA SMALL BODMAN at Vergina on Fifth Avenue South.
***SOLD OUT***
2-3pm
Finding an Agent with crime
novelist James O. Born. (Walking Money,
Shock Wave, Escape Clause, Field of Fire, Burn Zone)
3:15-4:15pm
What Publishers Want, 4th edition with author-publisher Bob Gelinas of
Archebooks Publishing.
4:30-5:30pm
Roundtable and Book Signing
with Bodman, Born, Evanovich, Gelinas, Sinclair, and
others. Topic: The Care and Feeding of a
Writer’s Career
**This separately-ticketed event is open
to the general public by advance purchase as well as to
Conference participants.

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Sunday, April 6
*8:30am
NETWORKING BREAKFAST
10:00-11:00am
Self-Help and How-To: Sure-Fire Non-Fiction Markets with Lorraine
C. Ladish (I Feel Fat, I’m Pregnant - Now What? Learning to Love,
Inner Beauty, On Publishing, and Have Fun with Your Kids)
11:15am-12:15pm
Finding a Niche with Bob Morris (Bahamarama,
Jamaica Me Dead, Bermuda Schwartz,
and Dead Ahead )
*12:30-1:45pm
NETWORKING BOX
LUNCH and BOOKSIGNING
2:00-3:00pm
One Book’s Story: from Idea to Execution to Marketing with Karna
Small Bodman (Checkmate, Gambit)
3:15 – 4:15pm
Making “Make-Believe” Believable with M. B. Weston (A
Prophecy Forgotten, Out of the Shadows)
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