SCHEDULE of EVENTS

Friday, June 8th:
 

2-4:30pm

Albany Aqua Duck Tour (optional; pre-registration required)

4:00-7:00pm

Pick Up Registration Materials - Desmond Hotel Lobby

7:00-9:00pm

DINNER BANQUET
Bernard Cornwell, Keynote Speaker

Saturday, June 9th: 
 

7:00-8:30am

BREAKFAST

8:30-9:30am

Imagining Saratoga 1777: How an Author Reconstructs a Famous Battle
Chris (C.C.) Humphreys

Finding a Marketable
Historical Fiction Story


Allison McCabe,
Michelle Moran

Independent Women: A New York Tradition

Audrey Braver,
Juliet Waldron

 

9:45-10:45am

Creating a Successful Writing Support Group
Stephanie Cowell,
Judith Lindbergh

&

The Inspirational Market
Lyn Cote

Whither Historical Fiction:
The Market and Publishing Trends

Irene Goodman

 

The Best New
Historical Fiction:
What To Read
and Why

Diana Tixier Herald
Brad Hooper
Sarah Johnson
Georgine Olson

11:00am-12:00pm Americans Writing English Settings

jay Dixon
Kathy Lynn Emerson
Melinda Hammond Patricia Wynn

 

Putting the Who in Whodunit:
Historical Forensics

Diana Gabaldon
Roberta Gellis
Alan Gordon
M.E. Kemp (mod.)
Priscilla Royal

Fictionalizing the Already Famous
Jeanne Mackin

&

Finding the Story in History
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
 

12:00-1:15pm

LUNCH
Irene Goodman, Keynote Speaker

1:30-2:30pm Selling Historical Fiction (Editors' Panel)

Hope Dellon (St. Martin's Press), Allison McCabe (Crown Publishers), Jackie Swift (McBooks Press)
moderated by Alana White

Sharpe Practice:
Writing a Historical Novel

Bernard Cornwell
 

2:45-4:00pm Rewriting the Role
of Women


Suzanne Adair
Irene Burgess
Susanne Dunlap
Sandra Gulland
Mary Sharratt (mod.)
 
War and Words:
Military History and Fiction


Liz
Schevtchuk Armstrong (mod.)
Bernard Cornwell Douglas Jacobson
Ann Parker
Judson Roberts
Young Adult and Children's Historical Fiction In and Out of the Classroom

Nancy Castaldo
Kathleen Ernst
Judith Foster Geary (mod.)
Martha Tuck Rozett
Lea Wait
4:00-6:00pm

GROUP BOOK-SIGNING

7:00-10:00pm

DINNER BANQUET
(optional; pre-registration required)

Diana Gabaldon, Keynote Speaker
followed by Historical Talent Revue

Sunday, June 10th: 

7:30-9:00am

BREAKFAST

9:00-10:15am

Bringing Pirates
to Life


James L. Nelson
Cindy Vallar

Debut Authors Talk About Publication

Broos Campbell (mod.)
Anne Easter Smith
Clare Langley-Hawthorne
Ken Kreckel
Mary Fremont Schoenecker

Writing Short Historical Fiction

Lane Ashfeldt (mod.)
Christopher Cevasco
Beverle Graves Myers
Gigi Vernon
 

10:30-11:30am

From Adams
to McKinley:
Fiction About 19th
Century America

Ina Bergmann
Eileen Charbonneau
Joanne Dobson (mod.)
Ann Parker
Rosemary Poole-Carter

Writing Love Scenes:
How Much Sex Is
Too Much?

Tasha Alexander
Ann Chamberlin (mod.)
Diana Gabaldon
Chris (C.C.) Humphreys
Lisa Jensen
Jade Lee

 

The Publishing Continuum:
Finding the Right Place for Your Book

Nancy Attwell
Tamara Mazzei
Patricia Wynn