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SCHEDULE of EVENTS

  Friday, April 15th: 

9am - 6pm Optional field trips to Salt Lake City historical locales
(will start and conclude at different times depending on tour chosen)

Pre-registration is required for some tours. For details, please see Friday Field Trips.
4pm - 7pm Registration desk opens - University Park Marriott
7pm - 9pm

Friday Night Dinner

Speaker: Jack Whyte, Author Guest of Honor

  Saturday, April 16th:

8:30 - 9:45am Genre vs. Literary Historical Fiction

Panelists:
Stephanie Cowell, Louise Hawes, Clyde Linsley, Sharan Newman, Rosemary Poole-Carter.

Moderated by Albert Bell

 19th Century
Historical Costuming

Workshop with

Lynde Mott		 Booksignings

8:30-9am:
Brigitte Goldstein, Lauren Haney, Marilyn Ravicz

9-9:30am:
Jeff Janoda, Beverle Graves Myers, Elsa Watson

9:30-10am:
Virginia van Druten,
Judith Geary, Patricia Wynn
 
9:45-10am Break
10 - 11:15am Medieval Fiction

Panelists:
Mary Gillgannon, Kathleen Cunningham Guler, Judith Merkle Riley, Elsa Watson, Jack Whyte

Moderated by Alan Gordon

 Writing the Western Experience

Panelists: 
Mary Peace Finley, Suzanne Lyon, Cynthia Leal Massey, Shirley Tallman

Moderated by Ann Parker

 Booksignings

10-10:30am:
Kathy Lynn Emerson, Joanna Catherine Scott,
Albert Bell

10:30-11am:
Nancy Attwell, Irene Bennett Brown,
Debra Tash
11:30 - 1pm Lunch

Keynote speaker: Rachel Kahan, Crown Publishers
1:00 - 2:15pm Selling Historical Fiction (Editor and Agent Panel)

Panelists:
Natalia Aponte (Tor/Forge), Judy Geary (High Country Publishers), Irene Goodman (Irene Goodman Literary Agency), Rachel Kahan (Crown Publishers), Richard Peterson (Deseret Books)

Moderated by Eric Swedin

 Romance Roundtable:
The Genre Romance
and the
Literary Love Story

Speakers:
Shannon Donnelly,
Joanna Catherine Scott

 Booksignings

1-1:30pm: Eileen Charbonneau, Juilene Osborne-McKnight,
Jack Whyte

1:30-2pm:
Bennett H. Bracken, Ellen Ekstrom,
Ann Parker

2-2:30pm:
Rosemary Poole-Carter, Kathleen Ernst, Claire Rudolf Murphy
2:15 - 2:30pm Break
2:30 - 3:45pm Researching the Historical Novel

Panelists:
James Duffy, Kathleen Ernst, Margaret Frazer, Judith Merkle Riley

Moderated by Karen Swee

 Developing Realistic Historical Characters

Speaker:
Rhys Bowen


Whose History Is It Anyway?

Speaker:
Rosalind Miles

 Booksignings

2:30-3pm:
Ann Chamberlin, Suzanne Lyon, Florence Weinberg

3-3:30pm:
Carola Dunn, Christine E. Bender, Juliet Waldron

3:30-4pm:
Sarah Johnson, Cynthia Leal Massey,
Mary Young
3:45pm - 4pm Break
4 - 5pm From Primary Sources to the 21st Century

Speaker:
Judith Merkle Riley

 Historical Dance Workshop

with

Laraine Miner

 Booksignings

4-4-30pm:
Rhys Bowen, Mary Peace Finley, Kathleen Cunningham Guler,  Rosalind Miles

4:30-5pm:
Shannon Donnelly, Roberta Gellis,
Karen Swee


     Sunday, April 17th:

8:30 - 9:45am Writing Action Scenes

Panelists:
Irene Bennett Brown, Debra Tash, Juliet Waldron, Jack Whyte, Patricia Wynn

Moderated by Cindy Vallar

 Coincoin of Isle of Canes:
Breathing Life into Shadowy Women of the Past

Speaker:
Elizabeth Shown Mills		 Booksignings

8:30-9am:
Mary Gillgannon, Shirley Tallman, Alana White

9-9:30am:
Warren Bull, Alan Gordon, Ona Russell

9:30-10am:
C.W. Gortner, Priscilla Royal,
Faye Turner
9:45-10am Break
10 - 11:15am Historical Mystery Panel

Panelists:
Carola Dunn, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Roberta Gellis, Lauren Haney,
Beverle Graves Myers

Moderated by Alana White

 History to Legend, Legend to Myth: Writing at the Intersections

Speakers:
Eileen Charbonneau,
Anita Gordon, Juilene Osborne-McKnight		 Booksignings

10-10:30am:
Judith Merkle Riley

10:30-11am:
Clyde Linsley, Elizabeth Shown Mills

11-11:30:
Stephanie Cowell,
James Duffy, Margaret Frazer
1pm-5pm Sunday afternoon theatre: "Dust Eaters" by Julie Jensen
(pre-registration required; see Field Trips for details)

Note: Readings and editor/agent appointments will be held concurrently with the speaker presentations.  Details will be published once the schedule is finalized.