Surrey International Writers' Conference

Sarah Lovett

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Sarah Lovett's five best-selling novels have been translated into 11 different languages and have been optioned for film and television. They include Desperate Silence, Dantes' Inferno, and most recently Dark Alchemy. She has studied writing for page, stage, and screen with Sam Shepard, Robert McKee, Christopher Vogler, Irene Fornes, Natalie Goldberg and Tom Jenks. In addition to her best-selling fiction, Sarah's non-fiction books include the award-winning "Extremely Weird" children's series, which aired as a television special. Her short fiction and how-to pieces are included in anthologies, and she has worked as a freelancer for newspapers, magazines, and National Public Radio.

Sarah is a graduate of Coach U and Authentic Happiness Coaching. In addition to coaching writers, Sarah teaches creative writing and works as an editorial consultant. She brings her experience, connections, and resources as a professional writer and lifelong creative to her work.

Sarah lives in Santa Fe with her husband Michael and their daughter Pearl.

Workshops & Panels:

Writing Extremely Weird Non-fiction for Kids

Speaker: Sarah Lovett
Time: Friday 10:30am

Interested in tackling the world of non-fiction writing for children? Learn about breaking in and what it takes to stay in the game from an author who walks both ends of the fiction/non-fiction tightrope.

The 90 Minute Novel

Speaker: Sarah Lovett
Time: Saturday 10:30am

Walk in with paper & pen, walk out with a work-in-progress! Jumpstart your next novel via a series of exercises designed to guide you through character creation and development. You will come away with new characters, scenes, situations, themes, and possibly the blueprint of your next book.

Guts and Glory – Anatomy of a Thriller

Moderators:
Time: Friday 1:30pm

What does it take to make a thriller? Join this best-selling group to look at the brains, the guts and the heart of thriller-writing – and selling it once it’s written.

Not Just Kid Stuff - The Joys & Perils of Writing for Children

Moderator: kc dyer
Time: Sunday 9:30am

A frank discussion among authors, editors and publishers about the world of kid lit.