April 11-12, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza, Natick, Massachusetts (Use group code NCH when booking)
(Directions)

Featuring Keynote Speaker, multiple RITA award winning author Susan Wiggs

EXTRA! Workshop with USA Today bestselling author Virginia Kantra Open to the first 100 registrants

AGENDA

Friday, April 11, 2008:

• Registration begins at 2 p.m.
• Extra! Workshop with Virginia Kantra from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
• Early Evening Workshops at 5:40 p.m.
• Dinner at 7 p.m.
• "Little Black Dress" Dessert Buffet at 9 p.m. - come in your version of the little black dress.

Saturday, April 12, 2008:

• Breakfast with Keynote Speaker Susan Wiggs at 7:30 a.m.
• Morning workshops
• Individual Agent & Editor Appointments
• Luncheon with Speaker Suzanne Brockmann at 12:15 p.m.
• Afternoon Workshops including Agent & Editor Panels
• Literacy Book Signing from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

EDITOR AND AGENT APPOINTMENTS

Click here to see the list of Editors and Agents

Book Signing

Our annual Book Signing for Literacy will be held directly following this year's conference. E-mail Myretta Robens before March 1 if you would like to participate.

Participating Authors

Questions?

Jessica Smith: Conference Coordinator
Meghan Gehan: Registration
Myretta Robens: Book Signing

Promotional Items

Each participant receives a bag full of items, such as book marks, new books, and other items authors and publishers send to help promote their books, authors and the romance genre. We would love to add your items to the bags.

We also welcome items we can use for our gift baskets that will be given away as door prizes. In addition to books and traditional promotional items, we welcome cosmetics, magazines, chocolates, bath products and other small gifts.

If you have a promotional items, e-mail Tara Holt for the address.

WORKSHOPS

Jessica Andersen
Surviving the Agent/Editor Appointment

Judith Arnold
Theme and Variations

Teresa Bodwell
Legal Issues for Writers

Terri Brisbin
History and Research: Why, How Much, How, When and When Not to Use It

Suzanne Brockmann
Chat with Suzanne Brockmann

Linda Cardillo
What it's all about: From Story to Synopsis

Ashlyn Chase
Electronic and Small Press Publishing; Beyond the Horror Stories

Eileen Cook
Psych 101- For Fiction

Eileen Cook and Eileen Rendahl
So You Think You're Funny

Megan Frampton
Plotting by the Seat of Your Pants

Winnie Griggs
What Came Before - The Art of Backstory

Diana Groe
What a Novel Idea

Kristan Higgins and Rose Morris
Critiquing for Dummies: Making the Critique Partnership Work

Deidre Knight and Elaine Spencer
How to Lose an Agent in 10 Ways

Lee Ann Lessard
Demystification of a Marketing Plan That Works on All Financial Levels

Caroline Linden
The Modern Historical Romance

Caroline Linden and Sally MacKenzie
Writing a Series

Molly O'Keefe
Getting Conflict on Every Page

Barbara Plum
Dialogue: The Writer's Most Powerful Tool

Tom Rancich
Navy SEAL Q&A

Eileen Rendahl
Setting as Metaphor

Kathryn Smith
Creating Characters: Giving Life to the People in Your Head

Susan Wiggs
Chat with Susan Wiggs

Lauren Willig
Romancing the Day Job: Balancing a Dual Career

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