SCHEDULE of EVENTS

as of June 8, 2009

Friday, June 12th:
 

4:00-7:00pm

Pick Up Registration Materials - Hyatt Regency Foyer

6:30-7:00pm

Reception with Cash Bar

7:00-9:00pm

DINNER BANQUET
Margaret George, Keynote Speaker

Saturday, June 13th: 
 

7:00-8:30am

BREAKFAST

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 Why

Sarah Johnson
Georgine Olson
Joyce Saricks
 

9:45-10:45am

Shakespeare for Historical Novelists

jay Dixon


 

Place as Character:
Making Your Settings Come Alive

C.W. Gortner
Solveig Eggerz
Beverle Graves Myers (mod.)
Judson Roberts

 

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
 

      

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

 

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
 

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

Sunday, June 14th: 

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
 

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