SHEPHERD COLLEGE WRITERS CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

INNER VOICES:  WRITING FROM THE HEART

 

TENTATIVE AND DEVELOPING Program – June 4, 5, 6, 2004

 

Friday

 

3:00 – 5:30                   Registration

 

5:30 – 6:30                   Wine and Cheese Reception – President Dunlop’s House

 

6:30 – 8:00                   Dinner and Keynote speech by Mary Jo Putney, NYT best-selling author

Introduction by Mary Kirk, best-selling author and editor of ImaJinn Books – Lower Dining Hall

 

8:30 – ?                        Genre and Literary Fiction Small Group Discussions – Guest speakers will please facilitate the group that suits them best

 

 

Saturday

 

7:30 – 8:45                   Breakfast – Lower Dining Hall

 

9:00 – 10:00                 Finding Your Voice – Emilie Richards

 

10:00 – 11:00               Catherine Asaro & Rebecca York/Ruth Glick – Group A

                                    “From Romance to Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction, and the Other Way Round”

                                    Judy Fitzwater & Chassie West – Group B

                                    “Developing Continuing Characters in a Mystery Series”

                                    Todd James Pierce – Group C

                                    “Literary Fiction and Creativity”

                                   

11:00 – Noon               Mary Jo Putney, Cathy Maxwell & Corey McFadden – Group A

                                    “Research in Historical and Regency Romance”

                                    Ann C. Crispin & Scott Edelman – Group B

                                    “Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Long and the Short of It”

                                    Richard Galli – Group C

                                    “Editing to Sell and Other Horror Stories”

 

12:30                           Lunch and speech by Michael Dirda, longtime writer and editor for The Washington Post Book World

Introduction by Michael Austin – Location pending

 

2:00 – 3:30                   Mary Kirk & Elaine English – Group A

                                    “P(l)ot Holes:  $uccessful Story Development”

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                                    Kathy Carmichael – Group B

                                    "Fast, Easy, Painless: Writing the Fiction Synopsis"

                                    Richard Galli, Linda Morelli & Louise Titchener – Group C

                                    “Beyond New York City:  New Opportunities in Publishing”

                                   

3:30 – 4:30                   Diane Chamberlain – Group A

                                    “Characterization from the Inside Out”

                                    Patricia McLinn – Group B

                                    “Harlequin & Silhouette:  Developing Contemporary Category Novels”

                                    Patricia Gaffney, Eileen Charbonneau & Scott Edelman – Group C

                                    “Ten Things We Wish We Knew When We First Started Writing”

                                   

5:00 – 6:30                   Booksigning

 

6:30 – 8:00                   Dinner and speech by Nora Roberts, NYT best-selling author

                                    Introduction by Barbara Cummings, Conference Director

                                    Writing Contest Awards

 

9:00 – ?                        Author readings and entertainment

 

Sunday

 

7:30 – 8:45                   Breakfast – Lower Dining Hall

 

9:00 – 10:00                 Todd James Pierce & Elaine English – Group A

                                    “Agent Woes”

                                    Gay Cameron Snell & Barbara Bradford – Group B

                                    “Mistakes Newbies Make: The Nuts & Bolts of Fiction Writing”

                                    Binnie Syril Braunstein – Group C

                                    “Promote Your Way to the Top”

 

10:00 – 11:00               Eileen Charbonneau – Group A

                                    “Blazing the Trail in Young Adult Fiction”

                                    Binnie Syril Braunstein – Group B

                                    “Tall Tales:  Short Story Writing and How It Works”

                                    Karen Lee, Corey McFadden & Judy Fadeley – Group C

                                    “How I Got from There to Here”

                                   

11:00 – Noon               Rebecca York/Ruth Glick & Emilie Richards

                                    “Making IT:  Be Careful What You Wish For”

 

Noon                           Luncheon – Lower Dining Hall

                                    Literacy Auction

                                    Farewell by ?