tentative Event outline
Events, times, and participants subject to change.
Friday, April 19th
- 8:00am - 9:00am: Waffle Breakfast w/ Industry Panel with Monique Patterson (Bramble / Macmillan), Louise Fury (The Fury Agency), Dan Wood (Draft2Digital), Michelle Grajkowski (3 Seas Literary), Stephanie Phillips (SBR Media), Sarah Younger (Nancy Yost Agency), Deb Werksman (Sourcebooks), Jenn Eschrich (Tantor), Leticia Gomez (Dafina / Kensington), Ann Rachelle Jones (Audio in Color), Margarita Coale (The Law Offices of Margarita Coale), Gray Tan (The Grayhawk Agency), and Mark Gottlieb (Trident Media Group)
- 9:00 - 10:45am
- Agent and Editor Speed Dating - must have ticket
- 9:00 - 9:45am Craft Panels
- "Eric Clapton Was Wrong!" Focusing on the Grammar and Style Errors Found Most Frequently in Published Works with Helen Hardt
- Entangled Publishing - About the Brand with Lizzy Mason
- 10:00 - 10:45am Craft Panels
- Selling Your Brand with Kickstarter with Oriana Leckert (Head of Publishing at Kickstarter), Red Phoenix, Willow Winters, and Dana Claire
- How to Publish a Successful Audiobook with Tantor Media, Pink Flamingo, Audio in Color, One Night Stand Studios, Podium Audio, and High Gravity
- Legal Mazes & Author Dazes: Clearing the Fog in Literary Law with Joleen Hughes of Hughes Media Law Group
- Snappy Dialogue with Claire Kingsley, Jennie Marts, Kristen Proby, and Amy Daws
Saturday, April 20th
- 1:00 - 1:45pm Craft Panels
- Writing a Good Synopsis with Audrey J. Cole, and Heatherly Bell
- Yes, You're Good Enough - Getting the Perfect Agent with Louise Fury and Sarah Younger
- Traditional Publishing Process with Deb Werksman (Sourcebooks)
- 2:00 - 2:45pm Craft Panels
- Psychology of Fear & Villains with Mark Greaney and Charlaine Harris
- Sourcebooks - About the Brand with Deb Werksman
- Blackstone Publishing - About the Brand with Rick Bleiweiss
- Navigating Foreign Rights with Stephanie Phillips (SBR Media), Gray Tan (Grayhawk Agency), and Stacey Marie Brown
- 3:00 - 3:45pm Craft Panels
- Macmillan - About the Brands with Monique Patterson
- Going Viral! with Luna Mason, Willow Winters, Kat T. Masen, Jason Pinter (@JerseyBookGuy), Isabella (@mexican.bells), and Jessica (@books_and_crafts)
- Who did it, how to trick the reader with Wendy Owens, JT Ellison, Danielle Girard
- Provisions, Promises and the Power of Contracts with Joleen Hughes (HMLG Law), Michelle Grajkowski (3 Seas Literary), Eric S. Brown, and Margarita Coale
- 4:00 - 4:45pm Craft Panels
- Details, Details, Details! World Building with Charlaine Harris, Leia Stone, and Tracy Wolff
- Canary Press, Harlequin, Category, and Graydon House - About the Brand with Lynn Raposo and Alexandra Kiley
- Show Me the Money! The financial aspects of a publishing contract and becoming a full-time author with Leticia Gomez (Kensington)
- Plotting Your Thriller with Elise Hart Kipness, Rob Samborn, Noelle W. Ilhi, Deborah J. Ledford, and Chuck Barrett
- 5:00 - 5:45pm: Kensington Imprint - About the Brand with Leticia Gomez