Friday
May 14, 2004

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

• Registration and Coffee
• Sign Up for One-on-One Sessions
  

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.

• Robert Fulton - Qualming the Query: Your MOST Important Writing
• D.A. Love - Writing for Teens and Tweens: Tips for Getting Out of the Slush Pile and Onto the Bookshelf
• Dorothy Fletcher - Surviving the Publishing Jungle: Helpful Hints and Guidelines
• Panel: Dana Thomas, Jacky Sach and Rona Brinlee with moderator Tricia Booker - Your Book: From Conception to Completion
• Janice Daugharty "Just Say Just Doll: Writing Historical Fiction"
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Carol Andrews-Ackerman and Steve Cozart - Releasing Ego: Working With an Illustrator
• S.V. Daté - The Book Business: Dollars and Sense from the Author’s Perspective
• Rick Campbell - Running the Two Minute Offense: Exercises to Spur the Beginnings of Poems
• Marcus Stevens - Procrastination as a Virtue: Writing Strategies for Keeping at it and Getting to the End
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

• Luncheon:
  • “Tell Me a Mystery” with Able Rae
  • Keynote Address by Calvin Branche: Footprints in the Swamp: The Mystery in Florida

1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

• Gordon Kirkland - Writing Humor Even When You Don’t Feel Funny
• Able Rae - Hard Wired for Story
• Mia Leonin - Discovering Your Poetic Voice: The Persona Poem
• Marianne Berkes - Writing Children’s Literature
• Steve Berry - The Joy of Rejection: What Can Be Learned from an Agonizing Experience
  

3:15 to 4:00 p.m.

• Ron Thomas - Writing Articles for Publication And Selling Them!
• Carol O’Dell - Ten Steps to Build Your Writing Career
• Robert Gentry - Be a Heretic: Turn Your Writing Talent to Oral History
• D.H. Eaton - Writing What You Know: The What, Where, When, Why and Who of You
  

6:30 p.m.

• Reception and Book Signings
  

7:30 p.m.

• Banquet with Keynote Speaker Judy Gail - Hallelujah I’m A Bum: Stories and Songs of Work and Labor
  

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