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7:00-8:30am |
BREAKFAST |
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8:30-9:30am |
Says Who?
Point of View
Brenda
Rickman Vantrease |
Breaking
in and Staying in the Historical Fiction Game
Karen Essex
C.W. Gortner
Michelle Moran |
The Best New
Historical Fiction:
What To Read
and WhySarah
Johnson
Georgine Olson
Joyce Saricks
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|
9:45-10:45am |
Shakespeare for Historical Novelists
jay Dixon
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Place as
Character:
Making Your Settings Come Alive
C.W.
Gortner
Solveig
Eggerz
Beverle Graves Myers (mod.)
Judson Roberts
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Keep it Short:
Writing the Historical Mystery Short Story
Chris Cevasco
Kathy Lynn Emerson
Margaret Frazer
Ken Kuhlken
Alana White (mod.) |
| 11:00am-12:00pm |
Does Size
Matter?
Publishing with Small Presses
Ken Kreckel
Ken Kuhlken (mod.)
Donald Michael Platt
Priscilla Royal
|
Research
Methods on a Budget: What To Do When You Can't Go There
Roberta
Gellis
Tony Hays (mod.)
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Lauren Willig |
Debut
Novels
Catherine
Delors
John Kachuba (mod.)
Kamran Pasha
Barbara Corrado Pope
Ann Weisgarber
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|
12:00-1:15pm |
LUNCH
Trish Todd, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, Keynote Speaker |
| 1:30-2:30pm |
Selling Historical Fiction
(Editors' Panel)
Shana Drehs (Sourcebooks)
Barbara Peters (Poisoned Pen Press)
Trish Todd (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster)
moderated by Ann Chamberlin |
Writing
About Biographical Figures
Laurel Corona
Elissa Elliott (mod.)
Margaret George
Karen Harper
Susan Holloway Scott
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|
2:45-4:00pm |
Talking
the Talk: Historical Fiction Dialogue
Christine
Blevins
Kate Forsyth
Margaret George
Peg Herring (mod.)
Nancy Hull
Mary Sharratt
|
Historical Accuracy vs. Plot: A Debate on Balancing Fact and
Fiction
Laurel
Corona
Catherine Delors
Joanne Dobson (mod.)
Anne Easter Smith
Margaret Frazer
Doug Jacobson
|
A Fine
Line: Historical Romance or Historical Novel?
Gretchen
Craig
Elisabeth Fairchild
&
Biblical Fiction:
Is It an Oxymoron?
Elissa
Elliott
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|
4:00-6:00pm |
GROUP
BOOK-SIGNING |
|
6:00-7:00pm |
Reception with
Cash Bar |
| 8:00-9:30pm |
DINNER
BANQUET
Sharon Kay Penman, Keynote Speaker
followed by Historical Costume Fashion Show |
| 9:30pm-? |
Return of the Late-Night Sex
Scene Reading
Margaret Frazer, Diana Gabaldon, Jade Lee, Anne Easter Smith, moderated by Eileen Charbonneau |
|
7:30-9:00am |
BREAKFAST |
|
9:00-10:15am |
Query
Letters That Worked
Stephanie
Cabot
Catherine
Delors
Joyce Moore (mod.)
Barbara Corrado Pope
Pam Strickler |
Historical Boys:
A Panel About Testosterone
Diana Gabaldon (mod.)
C.W. Gortner
Tony Hays
Doug Jacobson |
We're
Not in Kansas Anymore: Writing About Non-Western Cultures
Eileen Charbonneau
Clare Langley-Hawthorne (mod.)
Jade Lee
Michelle Moran
Kamran Pasha
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|
10:30-11:30am |
Sleuthing Through the Past:
The Who, What, When, Where, and What Do You Call It of
Writing Historical Mysteries
Kathy Lynn Emerson |
Is Sex
Necessary?
Spicing Up Your Historical Novel
(or Not)
Carrie
Bebris
Barbara Kyle
Jade Lee (mod.)
Kim Murphy
Karyn Witmer-Gow |
Young Adult Historical
Fiction: Pedagogy vs. Entertainment
M.P. Barker
Margaret Whitman Blair
Susanne Dunlap (mod.)
Kathleen Ernst
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