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January 16, 2010
Speaker: Dean Devlin
Screen writer, executive producer and director
Topic:
Writing For The Movies
February 20, 2010
Speaker: Michael Cassutt
Former CBS Executive, Screenplay Writer and Novelist.
Topic: Why We Write (Especially When We Don’t Get Rich)
March 20, 2010
Speaker: Terry Whalin
Former book aquisitions editor and author
Topic: Jumpstart Your Publishing Dreams
April 17, 2010
Speaker: Marisa Silver
Award winning author
Topic: The Devil In The Details -- How the specific creates the universe in fiction
May 15, 2010
Speaker: Steven R. Boyett
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror author
Topic: The Fuzzy Edge of Authorship
June 2010
Speaker Sheila Finch
Topic: How to become a fiction writer and have fantastic adventures even when you don’t have the professional background.
July 2010
Speaker: Antoinette Kuritz
Topic:
Using Your Book to Build a Business: Making Money As You Go
August 2010
Speaker: Mandy Hubbard
Topic:
Feel like you're hitting every pothole on the road to publication? Learn from someone who has experience as a successful author and an agent. Mandy Hubbard is the author of Prada & Prejudice, You Wish, and five other soon-to-be-published novels for teens, published by Razorbill/Penguin and Llewelyn Flux. Her books have been published in Indonesia, Spain and France. She is also a literary agent for D4EO Literary, where she represents authors of middle grade and teen fiction.
Mandy will cover tips, tricks, and helpful websites, plus she'll throw in a a few inspirational examples of writers who struggled through rejection and made it out on top.
September 18, 2010
Speaker:
Gayle Brandeis
Gayle is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds if Inspiration for Women Who Write, Dictionary Poems, and The Book of Dead Birds novel which won the Barbara Kingsolver Bellwether Prize for Fiction
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October 16, 2010
Speaker: Judith Freeman
Author of four novels and one nonfiction book, Judith novels have repeatedly been named on of the best books by The L.A. Times and Newsweek.
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November 20, 2010
Speaker:
Elizabeth Sims
A contributing writer to Writer’s Digest, author of the Rita Farmer series of mysteries, as well as the Lambda Award-winning Lillian Byrd mysteries
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December 18, 2010
Speaker: Kathy Porter
A long-time member of the SCWA, Kathy is the author of Earth’s Ultimate Conflict, the first novel in her Gray Guardians Series.
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Speakers - 2010