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Ballroom 1 |
Presenter |
Ballroom 3 |
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| Saturday |
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Saturday |
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| 7:45-8:15 |
Check-in |
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| 8:15-8:30 |
Welcome |
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| 8:30-9:30 |
Keynote- Writers as Witness: Stories Only You Can Tell |
Shelley Read |
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| 9:45-10:45 |
Mind the Gutter |
Jonathon Fetter-Vorm |
Behind the Scenes of the Publishing Process |
Cindy Spiegel |
| 11:00- 12:00 |
Ask an Agent: Everything You can and Should Ask Your Publishing Partner |
Abby Saul |
Poetry as Catharsis |
Jake Arrowtop |
| 12:00- 1:15 |
LUNCH |
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| 1:15- 2:15 |
Do You Really Need to Edit Yourself? |
Debbie Burke |
Writing Relationships Your Readers Will Care About |
J.D. Evans |
| 2:30- 3:30 |
Wandering & Wondering: Writing Place-Based Narratives |
Shelley Read |
Agent/editor pitch sessions |
Abby Saul, Julie Stevenson, and Cindy Spiegel |
| 3:45-4:45 |
The Marathon: 10 Keys to Sustaining Your Lifelong Writing Journey |
Jess Owen |
Agent/editor pitch sessions |
Abby Saul, Julie Stevenson, and Cindy Spiegel |
| 4:45-5:00 |
Closing remarks |
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Agent/editor pitch sessions |
Abby Saul, Julie Stevenson, and Cindy Spiegel |
| 5:30 |
Reception at Bookshelf downtown Kalispell |
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| Sunday |
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| 8:00-9:00 |
Socializing and visiting authors’ exhibits |
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Polishing the Blurb |
AotF Volunteers |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Navigating Publishing |
Abby Saul and Cindy Spiegel |
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| 11:00-12:00 |
Crafting Character |
Shelley Read |
Please Read my Manuscript: Quick Tips for Queries |
Abby Saul |
| 12:00-1:00 |
LUNCH |
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| 12:45-1:15 |
Board presentation and announcements |
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| 1:30-2:30 |
How to be an Effective Advocate for Your Book |
Cindy Spiegel |
Developing the “Internal Narrative” in Memoir Writing |
Robert Petrone |
| 2:45-3:45 |
Writing Culturally-Responsive Fiction |
Jake Arrowtop |
How to Make Comics (The Hard Way) |
Jonathon Fetter-Vorm |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Self-publishing or Traditional Publishing? What’s Best for You? |
Debbie Burke, Jess Owen, J.D. Evens |
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