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AGENTS AND EDITORS
Discuss your story and its marketability with Editors and Agents! By Appointment only! Sign up by email when you register (see registration blank). We'll call you out when it's time for your appointment to discuss your manuscript with an editor or agent.
 Amy Burkhart, joined the Kimberly Cameron & Associates Literary Agency
in 2007, and brings experience as a critical reader, an editor, and a writer herself. She represents both fiction and nonfiction projects for the adult market. In fiction, she looks for literary and commercial fiction, up-market women's fiction, mysteries with a twist or an unusual protagonist, and historical fiction. In nonfiction, she seeks narrative nonfiction and memoirs as well as prescriptive nonfiction written by experts in their field. She has a soft spot for lifestyle, humor, food, and current events topics.
 Peter Steinberg, formed The Steinberg Agency Inc.
, a full-service literary agency, in the fall of 2007 by Peter Steinberg. Peter worked for eleven years as a literary agent at a number of high profile boutique literary agencies, including Donadio & Olson and Regal Literary before forming his own company. Peter’s clients have been nominated for/awarded Edgars, Quills, The Pulitzer Prize, The Story Prize, The Paris Review Discovery Prize, Borders Original Voices and National Book Awards.
 Ellen Pepus, Signature Literary Agency, has a BA in English Literature from Indiana University and a JD from George Washington University. She was assistant to agent Jeff Kleinman at The Graybill and English Literary Agency before opening her own solo agency, which in 2009 became Signature Literary Agency when she teamed up with New York agents Gary Heidt and Amy Tipton. Ellen is looking for historical fiction, especially if it weaves real people and or events into the fictional world, women’s fiction that transcends the predictable and formulaic and explores women’s life in an authentic, original way. Also seeking mysteries, thrillers, multicultural fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir and how-to/prescriptive non-fiction.
Register Now for this All-Star Workshop!
Until March 30 - Conference Fee $150
After March 30 and At the Door - $165
Conference Price Includes:
2010 membership ($40 value), conference breakfast coffee/donuts and buffet lunch, conference workshops, agent/editor interview.
NEW ADDITION TO OUR SCHEDULE
Pre-Conference Friday Night Party
"We're Not in Kansas Anymore"
Cocktails & Dinner at the Holiday Inn
6 p.m. til 9 p.m.
The Wizard will Announce the winner of the Novel Contest!
Join us at the Pre-Conference Party and smooze with literary agents, editors, authors, and members of our critique groups. Attendance requires a separate sign-up. You are still invited to the party if you cannot make it to the conference on the 10th. Order from the menu and pay for your own meal. Bring a guest if you like. Free drinks (limit 2) if you come in costume as a character from OZ otherwise Cash Bar. RSVP now and pay Cover charge of $25 with PayPal). Payment of cover charge is required 3 days before event party because we need to give the restaurant a head count (No refund of cover charge).
You May Pay Conference Registration Fee and Contest Entry Fees by Check or PayPal
If you're registering for any conference event in the last week, please email Roger Paulding to let him know ahead of time and pay by PayPal so that we can be sure there is adequate space and food for everyone.
If you live out of town, ask about special price group tickets to the workshop. Email Roger Paulding for details.
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All Conference Events will be held at the
Holiday Inn Southwest
11160 Southwest Freeway, Houston 77031
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You may Pick and choose any (or mix) Track 1 or Track 2 workshops.
Conference Workshop TRACK 1:
a. All Day Workshop with Tom Vaughan,  noted screenwriter and teacher, who will tell you all the secrets of screenplay plot, structure, and format that you need to know to sell your screenplay -- what applies to screenwriting also applies to novels. Make plans now for this exciting event.
Conference Workshop TRACK 2: Pick your seminar!
a. Chris Rogers - "The Magic of Conflict" -  A two-hour seminar featuring one of Houston’s most popular writing teachers. Chris is the author of three Bantam mysteries feature bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan. And the writer's manual, Goosing the Write Brain: A Storyteller's Toolkit. She has taught workshops for the Writers Guild, the Women’s Institute of Houston, and Rice Continuing School of Education. Website www.chrisrogers.com.
b. Mike Orenduff - "Beating the Bookstore Bushes for Customers" -  No one does a book-signing like Mike, who incidentally holds a doctorate in mathematical logic from Tulane. He is the author of two mysteries, The Pot Thief who Studied Pythagoras, and the Pot Thief who Studied Ptolemy. Mike lives in Georgia and is married to his childhood sweetheart, the noted art historian Lai Chew Orenduff, an author in her own right. Website: www.orenduff.org.
c. Susan Briggs Wright - "Writing your Memoir" - Writing Your Memoir -  Susan brings a multi-media background to memoir coaching. She began in broadcast journalism (radio in New York; Ch 2 reporter and Ch 8 anchor/producer in Houston). She became a Houston Business Journal columnist and journalism instructor at UH. Her first memoir projects were her mother’s family history and her father’s autobiography. Currently she is fostering video and oral history as well as print works at Women’s Institute of Houston. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford and a M.S. from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
d. Christie Craig - "Emotional Kicks in your Story" -  No one can shake up your emotions like Christie, whether it’s in one of her shorter pieces (she’s appeared in more than 3, 000 magazines with articles and photographs) or her published novels (five, plus a book on writing romance, and one non-fiction on buying a house). A Golden Heart finalist and a finalist in more than 50 RWA contests, her trademarks are witty humor and a suspenseful, sexy tone. Website www.Christie-craig.com.
Enter the 2010 Spring Writers Contests
Novel & Screen Play Contest - $1000 Grand Prize, $500 2nd Place, and $250 Third Place
NDEADLINE: MARCH 3, 2010
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This event supported by Poets and Writers Magazine, Inc.
PAST WORKSHOPS
2009 Fall Writers Contests Winners!
 The Fall 2009 Workshop featured renowned Mystery Writer David Liss, author of A Conspiracy of Paper, The Coffee Trader, A Spectacle of Corruption, The Ethical Assassin, The Whiskey Rebels, and The Devil’s Company.
 The Spring 2009 Workshop featured novelist Karleen Koen, author of Dark Angels, Now Face to Face (Crown), and Through a Glass Darkly (Random House). Her books have been translated into 12 languages and chosen as Book of the Month Club main selections.
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