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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.
 Now
an independent editor, Allison McCabe joined the Crown
Publishing Group (Random House) in New York in 2005. Before joining
Crown, she was at Penguin Group (USA) where she acquired and edited both
fiction and nonfiction. Prior to that, Allison was an editor at
HarperCollins, where she worked with New York Times bestselling authors Susan
Isaacs, Jeffrey Archer, Anne Rivers Siddons, Tony Hillerman, Simon Winchester,
Jerry Oppenheimer, and Sister Wendy Beckett. At Crown, in addition to
historical novels, she acquired commercial fiction, memoirs, historical
biographies, and quirky nonfiction.
 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.
 Sharon
Bowers is a partner in The Miller Literary Agency LLC and a former editor at Harper Collins. Her list includes chefs and food
writers as well as practical non-fiction and some genre fiction. Clients
include Food Network host Juan-Carlos Cruz, Martha Foose, whose Screen
Doors and Sweet Tea (Clarkson Potter), won the 2009 James Beard Award for
Best American Food Writing and Clare O'Donohue, author of the Someday
Quilts murder mystery series (Plume), as well as non-fiction author Charla
Muller, whose 365 Nights (Berkely, 2009), a memoir about a wife who
gave her husband sex every day for a gear as a 40th birthday gift, was a
national media sensation, including appearances in the NYT, the Today
Show, and Oprah.
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. Keynote Address by Allison McCabe,
editor (see bio left): "Why
An Editor Buys a Book."
b.
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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Here for Writers Conference Workshop Registration &
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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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