| "H/O" means there is an accompanying
handout. "N/A" means there is no accompanying
handout.
10-84A & 84B CAREER – H/O
ARRIVING, SURVIVING, THRIVING: IT AIN’T
ALL CHOCOLATE, SEX, AND CHEETOS - 2 PARTS
Kylie Brant, Cindy Gerard, Roxanne Rustand,
Mary-Theresa Hussey, and Donna Bagdasarian
Three multi-award winning, best-selling, prolific
authors, an agent, and an editor share the secrets
for achieving success at each level of your
writing career.
10-86 SPOTLIGHT – N/A
SPOTLIGHT ON TOR
10-87 CRAFT – N/A
STRUCTURING – AND SELLING – A CONNECTED
TRILOGY OF ROMANCE
Claire Delacroix
Connected novels are extremely popular with
readers. Join Delacroix for a discussion of
the strengths and weaknesses of the linked trilogy
format, including how to best structure your
own trilogy, how to avoid potential pitfalls,
and how to place linked books.
10-88 CRAFT – N/A
THE FUNNY THING ABOUT BEING SCARED TO DEATH
Karen Robards
Best-selling author Karen Robards will show
you how to combine elements of humor into your
romantic suspense.
10-89 CRAFT – N/A
QUERY LETTER CRITIQUE
Kate Duffy
Editor Kate Duffy repeats this popular workshop
in which she critiques query letters submitted
by attendees. Bring your query letter (typed,
no personal info included) and Duffy will critique
as many as time allows.
10-90 CAREER – H/O
HOW TO WIN AGENTS AND INFLUENCE EDITORS
Michelle Grajkowski, Nancy Robards Thompson,
and Deborah Pfeiffer
We’ve heard the old adage the squeaky
wheel get the grease, but when does the “squeak”
turn from attention getter to career killer?
In this workshop, literary agent Michelle Grajkosksi
of the 3 Seas Literary Agency and two of her
clients, multi-published author Nancy Robards
Thompson and 2004 Golden Heart Finalist Deborah
Pfeiffer, explore effective communications for
both published and aspiring authors, including
editor/agent contact, author/agent relationships
and goal setting; public relations (self-promotion
to readers, reviewers, booksellers, and librarians);
and peer/mentor relationships.
10-91 CRAFT – H/O
YOU WANT ME TO CHANGE WHAT?
Jacquie D’Alessandro & Wendy Etherington
Great writing requires lots of rewriting. Learn
the steps to perfecting your manuscript before
it ever hits the editor’s desk –
and then how to make it even better when you’re
asked to revise it – from these two best-selling
and award-winning authors.
10-92 CAREER – H/O
LEARN HOW TO TURN BOOK TOURS INTO A REAL SELLING
EVENT
Suzanne Brockmann, Ed Gaffney, and Alesia Holliday
NYT best-selling, RITA-winning author Suzanne
Brockmann – Captain of Team Suz –
and author Ed Gaffney, and chick-lit thriller
author Alesia Holliday teach how to turn book
tours into real selling events, including media
tours.
10-93 SPOTLIGHT – N/A
SPOTLIGHT ON POCKET
10-94A & 94B RESEARCH – H/O
SPECIAL OPERATIONS - DELTA - 2 PARTS
Tonyia Gray
Do you have a hero or heroine in the Special
Forces, or would you like to? Using detailed
information, Tonyia Gray will provide you with
an in-depth look into this most intriguing branch
of the armed forces, and how you can give your
characters solid backgrounds and jobs within
the Special Forces community.
10-96 CRAFT – H/O
HOT TIPS FOR WRITING HOT
Jennifer Dunne
After an overview of the erotic romance field,
including who’s buying and a self-test
to place your work on the erotic spectrum, Dunne
will provide specific tips to heat up your writing
and explain how to apply them to your work.
10-97 SPOTLIGHT – N/A
SPOTLIGHT ON BANTAM DELL
10-98 CAREER – H/O
TEN CAREER MISTAKES TO AVOID AND HOW TO RECOVER
Stephanie Bond
Multiple finalist and RITA winner Stephanie
Bond teaches the 10 mistakes, over which a writer
has control, that can stall your writing career.
She explains how to avoid them and (gulp!) how
to recover.
10-99 CRAFT – H/O
CAN THIS MANUSCRIPT BE SAVED?
Susan Meier
In this workshop, Susan Meier reviews the seven
most common rejection catch phrases and explains
how determining whether yours is a story, scene,
or word problem is the first step on the road
to recovery.
10-100 CRAFT – N/A
WRITING REAL FOR THE CHRISTIAN FICTION MARKET
Gail Martin, Diane Noble, Sunni Jeffers, And
Robin Lee Hatcher
What is taboo for CBA publishers and how “real”
are we allowed to make our stories? Join these
talented and award-winning authors for a frank
discussion about what works and what doesn’t.
10-101 CRAFT – H/O
THE LOVERS JOURNEY
Kathryn Smith
Drawing on the mythical structures outlined
by Joseph Campbell and Christopher Vogler, Kathryn
Smith discusses how to take your characters
from the Loveless World to Happily Ever After
by illustrating the key elements that are unique
to every romance.
10-102 CAREER – N/A
WRITING FOR THE LONG HAUL THROUGH REJECTIONS
AND MARKET CHANGES
Linda Wisdom
Linda Wisdom, author of almost 70 novels for
four different publishers, recounts her wisdom.
She will show you how to deal with market changes,
rejections, and other issues that can sabotage
your writing career.
10-103 CRAFT – H/O
HOT TO PLOT: LAYING THE FOUNDATION AND BUILDING
A MULTI-LAYER ROMANTIC SUSPENSE PLOT
Roxanne St. Claire & Gayle Wilson
Join best-selling and award-winning authors
as they explore the elements of a strong foundation
of characters, hooks, and situations to create
a multi-layered romantic suspense plot, and
then examine the “braiding” technique
for creating a page-turning plot that blends
romance, suspense, and subplot.
10-104A & 104B SPOTLIGHT – N/A
SPOTLIGHT ON HARLEQUIN/SILHOUETTE - 2 PARTS
10-106 CRAFT – H/O
HOW TO BE IRRESISTIBLE
Susan Wiggs
Best-selling author Susan Wiggs presents tips
on crafting an irresistible premise and opening
for your book.
10-107 PUBLISHING/CAREER – H/O
THE CALL! NOW WHAT?
Kimberly Whalen, Allison Brennan, & Dianna
Love Snell
An agent with a top NY firm and two authors
with first books published in 2005 talk about
the mysterious process from getting the call
to seeing their book in print.
10-108 CRAFT – H/O
THE POWER OF POV: USING IT TO BRING CHARACTERS
TO LIFE
Candice Hern
This hands-on workshop presents basic skills
for using deep third-person point-of-view to
bring characters to life by focusing on the
most effective use of POV in deepening and enriching
characterization, and how to really get inside,
and stay inside, a character’s head.
10-109 CHAT – N/A
CHAT WITH SUZANNE BROCKMANN
10-110 CRAFT – H/O
CONFLICT AHEAD: A ROADMAP FOR WRITERS
Christie Ridgway
In this workshop, best-selling, award-winning
author Christie Ridgway will define the conflicts
used in romance novels and will explore how
to set up conflict, how to make conflict build,
and how to get the big pay-off from conflict
at the end of the book.
10-111 RESEARCH – H/O
IT’S MY PARTY, AND I’LL LIE IF
I WANT TO!
Celeste Bradley and Nicole Byrd
Are you a stickler for historical accuracy,
or are you of the “accuracy, shmaccuracy”
bent? Best-selling Regency historical authors
Celeste Bradley and Nicole Byrd discuss their
opposing views on the necessity (or not!) of
historical accuracy in the romance novel.
10-112 CAREER – H/O
SUCCESSFUL CRITIQUE GROUPS
Leah Vale, Lissa Manley, & Terri Read
Three long-term critique partners who’ve
traveled the road (together) from clueless newbies
to multiple sales with Harlequin/Silhouette
share their techniques for success, starting
with the opportunities your writing is missing.
10-113 PUBLISHING/CAREER – H/O
BOLDLY GO WHERE NO WRITER HAS GONE BEFORE:
HOW TO BE A TRAILBLAZER AND SELL!
Alesia Holliday, Marianne Mancusi, Paige Wheeler,
and Kate Seaver
Get the real scoop form an editor, an agent,
and two authors who have defied conventions
and sold trailblazing books.
10-114 PUBLISHING – N/A
SECRETS OF THE BEST-SELLING SISTERHOOD
Susan Elizabeth Phillips & Jayne Ann Krentz
What do best-seller lists teach us? How can
we apply these “divine secrets”
to our own career? Join Jayne Ann Krentz and
Susan Elizabeth Phillips and be prepared for
challenging ideas and stimulating discussions.
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