Sunday
May 26, 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 - From an Editor’s Point of View
• Jacky Sach - Finding an Agent: The Submission
• Katharine Sands - Making the Perfect Pitch
• Gordon Kirkland - Making Sure Your Short Humor Makes The Editor Laugh
  

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

• Antonia Fusco - How to Edit Your Own Work or What an Editor Looks For in a Project
• Jim McCarthy - Ten Things Agents Wish Every Author Knew
• Rita Rosenkranz - How to Write an Irresistible Nonfiction Book Proposal
• Carolyn Herman - Protecting Intellectual Property and Third Party Rights
  

12:00 to 1:30 p.m

• Lunch
• Panel Discussion with moderator Tricia Booker - Publishing Today: Who Is Getting Published and Why? How Does the Merger of Major Publishing Houses Affect the Writer? What are the Elements of a Successful Encounter with an Agent?

18th Annual Writers’s Festival