Friday’s Schedule
Friday, April 25: Doors open at 7:00am Registration
8:00am — 9:00am Breakfast — Welcome
9:00AM – 9:50AM
ROOM 1 Self-Publishing Demystified Bowerman
ROOM 2 Workshopping the query Goldsmith
ROOM 3 Self-editing for fiction writers Watters
ROOM 4 Whose Story is This? – Writing on POV Platt
10:00AM – 10:50AM
ROOM 1 Agents in the World of Self-Publishing Glick
ROOM 2 First Draft to Final Draft Horwitz
ROOM 3 Seven rules for writing non-fiction that sells books King
ROOM 4 Balance – How to intertwine Narrative, Description and Dialogue Wilkins
11:00AM – 11:50AM
ROOM 1 Savvy self-publishing – Bonuses and traps of DIY King
ROOM 2 Ten Ways to Upgrade Your Manuscript Wills
ROOM 3 Internet Ace – Online Self Promotion Kompes
ROOM 4 Writing Your Natural Story Manus
12:00am — 2:00am Lunch — First Page Read Panel
2:00PM – 2:50PM
ROOM 1 Plotting Goldsmith
ROOM 2 Blueprint Your Bestseller: Organize and Revise any Manuscript
with the Book Architecture Method (90 minute session) Horwitz
ROOM 3 Short Story Breeze
ROOM 4 Author/Agent panel – Kracht / Thompson Kracht/Thompson
3:00PM – 3:50PM
ROOM 1 Show, Don’t Tell Drake
ROOM 2 – 3:30PM Building Your Own Writing/Publishing Empire: Strategies for
Turning One Book into a Full-Time Living (90 minute session) Bowerman
ROOM 3 Seven rules for writing non-fiction that sells books King
ROOM 4 Author/Agent panel – Glick / McInnes McInnes/Glick
4:00PM – 4:50PM
ROOM 1 Turning Your Real-life Story Into a Book Wills
ROOM 2 —–CONT’D ——-
ROOM 3 Multi POV Watters
ROOM 4 Whose Story is This? – Writing on POV Platt
6:00pm Dinner – First Page Read Panel