Registration is Now Closed

Join us for the Create Something Magical Conference Book Signing
(Open to the Public)
Saturday, March 17, 2012
5:30 – 7:00 PM
The Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel
Click here for details and a list of signing authors

View the Conference Schedule

 

WORKSHOPS FOR WRITERS

Larissa Ione – World Building: Creating Something Strong and Different

Katharine Ashe – Editing Your Own Prose Like a Pro

Sarah MacLean – Mining the Modern World to Write Your Historical Novel

Jonathan Maberry – TEENS AT THE END OF TIME: Writing Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian YA Fiction

Tere Michaels – Crafting Secondary Characters That Shine

Ally Blue – Medical 101

Virginia Kantra – Deep POV

Jenna Kernan – 30 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Got Published

Caridad Pineiro – Turning Your Beastly Synopsis into a Marketable Beauty

Leanna Renee Hieber – Direct Your Book! Theatrical Techniques to a Blockbuster Novel

Lisa Dale, Lisa Verge Higgins & Shelley Noble – Women on Top: Writing and Publishing Women’s Fiction

E.F. Watkins – Building Suspense

Nisha Sharma – Score! Game Plans, Strategies and Playsto Help Meet Your Writing Goals

Maria V. Snyder – Novel Structure

Terry Kate – Navigating Online Promotion and Marketing: What Authors Need to Know

Pattie Giordani & Tina Gallagher – Pitch Perfect

Editors Panel

Agent Panel

 

WORKSHOPS FOR READERS

Murder, Mayhem, and Monsters – Jonathan Maberry, Melinda Leigh, Lois Winston, Chris Redding

The Inside Scoop on GLBT Romance – Ally Blue, Tere Michaels, KT Grant, R.A. Vaughn

Chat with Larissa Ione

Romancing the Past – Katharine Ashe, Sarah MacLean, Hope Tarr, Maya Rodale

Beyond Werewolves and Vampires – Larissa Ione, Caridad Pineiro, Virginia Kantra, Judi Fennell, Jenna Kernan

Young Adult or Not: We Love YA – Leanna Renee Hieber, Sarah MacLean, Maria V. Snyder, Terry Kate

 

Conference Registration Fees:Readers Event – $40
Registration Includes – Access to the welcome reception with Lady Jane’s Salon, Readers panels, book giveaways, gift basket raffles, the book fair, as well as hot hors d’oeuvre and dancing at the end of conference party. Plus those registered before February 1st are eligible to win a Sony eReader.

Reader’s Event with Lunch – $55
Registration includes all of the events of the Reader’s Track plus lunch and access to hear Larissa’s Keynote Speech.

Conference and Dues – $150
Member Conference Only – $115
Non-Member Register – $135
Full conference registration includes access to all readers events as well as writers workshops and panels and the networking reception.

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Attending Editors
Angela Polidoro Renee Rocco Amy Pierpont(Panel Only) Jillian Bell Stacy Boyd Laurel Symonds Kris Jacen Nina Bruhns – Web appts Stacy Abrams Tere Michaels Lori Perkins Tessa Woodward Monique Patterson Kelli Martin	Random House Lyrical Press Grand Central Publishing Ellora’s Cave Harlequin Enterprises HarperCollins Childrens MLRPress/Passion in Print/ Featherweight Press Entangled Publishing Entangled Publishing Loose-Id Ravenous Romance Avon/HarperCollins St. Martin’s Press Amazon Montlake
Attending Agents
Marissa Corvisiero Louise Fury Emily Keyes Lois Winston Peter Rubie Brooks Sherman Becky Vinter Jessica Alvarez Elaine English Eric Ruben Adam Friedstein	Corvisiero Literary Agency L. Perkins Agency L. Perkins Agency Ashley Grayson Agency Fine Print Literary Management Fine Print Literary Management Fine Print Literary Management Bookends, LLC Elaine P. English, PLLC The Ruben Agency Anderson Literary Management, LLC

Cancellation Policy – Cancellations requests received after February 1st will be eligible to receive a refund of the registration fee less a $30 fee. Cancellations after February 28 will be eligible to receive a refund less a $55 fee. Eligibility for refund will be determined by the conference chair on any cancellation request received after March 11.

For questions about the conference please click here to contact Rayna Vause or Monica Liming-Hu.