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2008 Schedule

Please note that the time and speakers are subject to change, please check the site regularly for updates. (Last update on April 9, 2008)

FRIDAY
SATURDAY
A Session
B Session
A Session
B Session
C Session
8am - 9am
Registration/Orientation/Breakfast
Registration/Breakfast
9am - 10:15am
Independent Publishing
  • Jim Fleming, Autonomedia
  • Michael Braziller, Persea Books
  • Richard Nash, Soft Skull Press
  • Sarah Reidy, Soho Press
  • Richard DeBold, Higganum Hill Books
  • Tina Jordan, AAP, moderator
  • Birth of a Book: Then We Cam to the End
  • Joshua Ferris
  • Julie Barer, agent, Barer Literary
  • Reagan Arthur, editor, Little, Brown & Co.
  • Marlena Bittner, publicist, Little, Brown & Co.
  • Mark Kohut, Publishing Consultant, moderator
  • Buzz-Builders: Marketing and PR for Writers
  • Anne Watters, Broadway Books
  • Jenny Leff, Random House
  • Johanna Ingalls, Akashic Books
  • Janet Goldstein, Publishing & Strategy Consultant
  • Chris Knopf, marketing executive, author, moderator
  • Querial Killiers: How Not to Get an Agent
  • Katharine Sands, Sarah Jane Freymann Agency
  • 11am - 12:15pm
    Novel Approaches: Fiction Agents
  • Amy Tipton, FinePrint Literary Mgmt
  • Tina Dubois Wexler, ICM
  • Renee Zuckerbrot, Renee Zuckerbrot Literary Agency
  • Daniel Lazar, Writers House
  • Jean Naggar, Jen Naggar Literary Agency
  • Anne Reid Garrett, moderator
  • Reality Reads: Non-Fiction Agents
  • Anna Olswanger, Liza Dawson Assoc.
  • Michael Bourret, Dystel & Goderich Literary Mgmt
  • Jeremy Katz, Sanford J. Greenburger
  • Anna Ghosh, Scovil Chichak Galen
  • Marilyn Allen, Allen O'Shea Literary Partners, moderator
  • Demystifying Lit Mags: Advice on Publishing in Literary Magazines
  • Brigid Hughes, A Public Space
  • Peter Selgin, Alimentum
  • Charles Flowers, Bloom
  • Maribeth Batcha, One Story
  • Alex Steel, Gotham Writers Workshop, moderator
  • From Frustration to Publication: Writing Process Q&A
  • Paul McComas, author
  • Gayle Feldman, author
  • Marshall Karp, author
  • Patricia Smith, poet
  • Michael Paul Mason, author
  • Philip Schultz, The Writers Studio, moderator
  • 12:30pm - 2pm
    Lunch - Lincoln Child, introduced by Tim W. Brown, Author and Writers' Conference Programming Committee member
    Lunch-Alice Hoffman, introduced by Audrey Pass, FOX TV
    2pm - 3:15pm
    Champions of the Story: Fiction Editors
  • Martin Shepard, The Permanent Press
  • Amy Einhorn, Amy Einhorn Books
  • Marjorie Braman, HarperCollins
  • Rachel Kramer Bussel, anthologist
  • Lindsey Moore, Crown
  • Art Winslow, National Book CriticsCircle, moderator
  • Champtions of the Truth: Non-Fiction Editors
  • Debra Englander, Wiley
  • Herb Shaffner, McGraw-Hill
  • Bruce Tracy, Random House
  • Stephanie Staal, Cyan
  • Janet Reid, Fine Print, moderator
  • All About MEmoirs: Memoir-Writing
  • Stephanie Elizondo Griest, memoirist
  • Phoebe Damrosch, memoirist
  • Catherine Texier, memoirist
  • Janice Erlbaum, memoirist
  • Stephen O'Connor, memoirist
  • Richard Goodman, memoirist, moderator
  • Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands: Self-Publishing
  • Robert W. Cabell, author
  • Perry Brass, Belhue Press
  • Carol Hoenig, Publishing Consultant
  • Open Master Class with Sol Stein
  • Sol Stein, best-selling author, editor, WritePro

    TOPICS:

  • The Actors Studio Method for Generating Conflict
  • Foolproof Dialogue
  • 4pm - 5:15pm
    Digerati: Online Writing and Blogging
  • Carol Fitzgerald, Bookreporter.com
  • M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review
  • Ed Champion, Ed Champion's Filthy Habits
  • Mary Delli Santi, bookblog.net
  • Levi Asher, Literary Kicks
  • James Marcus, Amazonia, moderator
  • Writing and Publishing Beautiful Children
  • Charles Bock, author
  • David Ebershoff, editor, Random House
  • Jynne Martin, publicist, Random House
  • Alex Steele, Gotham Writers Workshop, moderator
  • Getting Past the Gatekeeper: How to Reach Agents and Editors
  • Jessica Sinsheimer, Sarah Jane Freymann Agency
  • Laura Walsh, Wiley & Sons
  • Marcela Landres, Editorial Consultant
  • Marissa Walsh, author, moderator
  • What's Next? Life After the Conference
  • Susan Breen, author
  • Harry Grinberg, author
  • Open Master Class with Sharon Mesmer
  • Sharon Mesmer, poet, author, The New Schoo
  • TOPIC: When Words Won't Come: Generating New Work When You Think You Can't
  • 5:30pm - ???pm
    Cocktail Reception/Dinner/Speaker
    John Berendt
    Cocktail Reception