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9:00 am Registration
8:30am-4pm
9:30 am
Opening Session
Keynote: Gary Geddes
10:30 am Workshops Editor/Agent/Producer Appointments Blue Pencil Cafe Appointments
Noon Lunch
1:30 pm Workshops Editor/Agent/Producer Appointments Blue Pencil Cafe Appointments
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Workshops Editor/Agent/Producer Appointments Blue Pencil Cafe Appointments
5:30 pm Book Fair Social (No Host Bar)
7:00 pm
Banquet
Keynote: Terry Brooks
9:00 pm The Secrets of Sexy Swashbuckling — an intimate evening with
CC Humphreys and his Sword.

Editor/Agent/Publisher Interviews

You are entitled to one editor/agent/publisher interviews with your registration. Additional interviews appointments may be made at the conference, subject to availability. Not sure what it's all about? Check out the FAQ entries.

Blue Pencil Cafe

You are entitled to one Blue Pencil Cafe appointment with your registration. Additional interview appointments may be made at the conference, subject to availability. Not sure what it's all about? Check out the FAQ entries.

Workshops

While the SiWC will make every effort to offer the conference program as presented, it reserves the right to make changes to the program if circumstances warrant.

10:30am to Noon

1.Bestsellers Deconstructed (Panel)
Terry Brooks, Robert Dugoni, Diana Gabaldon, Anne Perry, Robert McCammon, Michael Slade, Donald Maass (Moderator)
2.Words to Wall (Panel)
Wally Lane, Jeff Arch, Stan Wakefield, Robert J. Sawyer, Anthony Dalton (Moderator)
3.Triple Threat – The Art of Working Collaboratively From Idea to Book Shelf - Annette Pollert, Eileen Cook, Rachel Vater
4.Writing Suspense: You Know it When You Feel It - Hallie Ephron
5.High Concept Fiction and How To Sell It - Carol Mason
6.Snapshot! Non-Fiction Books (Panel)
Sorche Fairbank, Katharine Sands, Howard White, Sharlene Martin, Jeffery McGraw (Moderator)
7.Snapshot! Romance: The Red and White with Gray and Black - Faith Black, Valerie Gray
8.My Dark Materials - C.C. Humphreys
9.Sensational Senses - Bernice Lever

1:30pm to 3:00pm

1.Forecasting the Future: The Market for Fiction During and After the Econopocalypse (Panel)
Donald Maass, Lisa Rector, Abby Ranger, Sally Harding, Don McQuinn (Moderator)
2.Romance Rules - Susan Wiggs
3.SiWC Idol 2009 (Panel)
Meredith Kaffel, Kristin Sevick, April Eberhardt, Jack Whyte, Annette Pollert, Rachel Vater (Moderator)
4.Serious Serials - Richelle Mead
5.Intimacy Interviewing and Reporting - Jacqui Banaszynski
6.Understanding Change in the News Business - Kirk LaPointe
7.Original Idea and Conflict - The Heart of Your Story and The Key to Selling Your Book: - Bob Mayer
8.Scrimger on Story - Richard Scrimger
9.Journaling 101 - Lois Peterson

3:30pm to 5:00pm

1.Making History (Panel)
Diana Gabaldon, Robert McCammon, Anne Perry, Jack Whyte, Anthony Dalton (Moderator)
2.Overarching Metaphor - Robert J. Sawyer
3.Snapshot! Canadian Writing (Panel)
Crystal Stranaghan, Susan Safyan, Howard White, Sally Harding, Carolyn Swayze (Moderator)
4.Introduction to Warrior Writer - Bob Mayer
5.Sinning 101: The Seven Deadly Sins Beginning Writers Make - Robert Dugoni
6.Stories From Life - Meg Tilly
7.Going Graphic - Kathryn E. Shoemaker
8.Advanced Social Media - Darren Barefoot
9.Short But Sweet – an Expert Examination of Short Fiction (Panel)
Gary Geddes, Annabel Lyon, Bernice Lever (Moderator)

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