Las Vegas Conference Schedule Saturday 26

Saturday’s Schedule
Saturday, April 26: Doors open at 7:00am Registration
8:00am — 9:00am Breakfast

9:00AM – 9:50AM
ROOM 1 Creating characters Wilkins
ROOM 2 Self-Publishing Demystified Bowerman
ROOM 3 Persistence: Writing Through the Realities and Responsibilities of Life McInnes
ROOM 4 Savvy self-publishing – Bonuses and traps of DIY King

10:00AM – 10:50AM
ROOM 1 Dialogue – It’s not just people talking Drake
ROOM 2 Blueprint Your Bestseller: Organize and Revise any Manuscript
with the Book Architecture Method (90 minute session) Horwitz
ROOM 3 Multi POV Watters
ROOM 4 Ten Ways to Upgrade Your Manuscript Wills

11:00AM – 11:50AM
ROOM 1 Writing For Teens Platt
ROOM 2 —–CONT’D ——- —
ROOM 3 Workshopping the query Goldsmith
ROOM 4 Writing Your Natural Story Manus

12:00pm — 2:00pm Lunch – Self-Publishing Panel

2:00PM – 2:50PM
ROOM 1 Agents in the World of Self-Publishing Glick
ROOM 2 Building Your Own Writing/Publishing Empire: Strategies for
Turning One Book into a Full-Time Living (90 minute session) Bowerman
ROOM 3 Building an Author Platform Kracht
ROOM 4 How to strengthen your plot by using screenplay formula Thompson

3:00PM – 3:50PM
ROOM 1 Turning Your Real-life Story Into a Book Wills
ROOM 2 – 3:30 PM Creating Compelling, Castable Characters (90 minute session) Manus
ROOM 3 Plotting Goldsmith
ROOM 4 Author/Agent panel – Glick / McInnes McInnes/Glick

4:00PM – 4:50PM
ROOM 1 Balance – How to intertwine Narrative, Description and Dialogue Wilkins
ROOM 2 —–CONT’D ——- —
ROOM 3 Show, Don’t Tell Drake
ROOM 4 Author/Agent panel – Kracht / Thompson Kracht/Thompson

6:00pm Banquet/Keynote Speaker – Robyn Carr/Raffle