 Thanks
to our participants for making the conference such a great success!
The Historical Novel Society's second
North American conference was held at the
Desmond
Hotel and Conference Center in
Albany, New York. Running from the evening of Friday, June 8,
2007, through the morning of Sunday, June 10, this
weekend-long
conference featured workshops, panels and keynote addresses on
various aspects of fiction set in the past, and presented authors,
readers, industry professionals and other historical fiction enthusiasts
with a unique opportunity to celebrate the genre.
Our author guests of
honor were
Bernard Cornwell, bestselling author of
the Sharpe series, and
Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of
the Outlander series.
View a
slideshow of conference photos! Thanks to photographers Chris
Cevasco and Richard Scott. We also have the
complete conference program
online.
Registration fees included entrance to all
daytime panels and workshops, the Friday night dinner (with Bernard
Cornwell as after-dinner speaker), Saturday buffet lunch (with
Irene Goodman as keynote), and
Saturday and Sunday continental breakfast. The fees also included a
meeting with an agent or editor, if
desired. The optional Saturday
evening banquet (additional charge), new for 2007, included an
after-dinner talk from Diana Gabaldon, followed by a historical talent
revue. We also offered an optional
Friday aqua duck tour of historic Albany.
Want to learn more? Choose one of the menu options at the far
left for further details. Not sure whether you'd like to attend
one of our conferences?
Read the write-ups from
our
2005 event in Salt Lake City. Write-ups and photos from our
2007 event are forthcoming. If you have specific questions about any
aspect of the conference, please contact a member of the
Board of Directors.
Photo: Eileen Charbonneau, Ann Parker, Joanne Dobson,
Ina Bergmann, and Rosemary Poole-Carter discuss "From Adams to McKinley:
Fiction About 19th Century America" at the 2nd North American HNS
Conference, June 10, 2007. |