Who is going to rock
it, April 19-21, 2013?
Everyone who
attends.
Our keynotes? Oh,
yeah. We've got Libba Bray, Barry Eisler, David Liss and Amber Benson. Rock
stars in their fields, one and all.
Editors? Only the
best, from the likes of Del Ray, Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, Sourcebooks and
Bell Bridge Books. These are the people who know the industry inside and out.
What about agents?
We've got half a dozen coming. You know what they want? They want pitches! When do they want them? At our Conference!
This year's theme is
Writing From the Ashes: Never Lose Sight of Your Dreams. Everybody hits a bump
in the road. Or two. Or twelve. Every. Body. Some bumps are the size of
pebbles, and some look more like a mountain range, but we all hit them. We want
our conference to inspire you to pick yourself up after one of these bumps and
keep on writing.
You can pitch your
completed manuscript to an agent or editor at no additional cost! This is
one-on-one face time, and we fill the slots on a first-come, first-served
basis. This means that the earlier you register, the better your chance of
getting one of the agents or editors you want.
You can participate
in one of our Read and Critique sessions. Unfamiliar with R&C? No problem.
With R&C Author, you get a small setting, where you read your first page to
a published author. With R&C X, you read your first page to an agent or
editor. In R&C 123, our designated reader will read your first page to a
panel consisting of one agent, one editor and one published author. Every
single one is an opportunity for immediate feedback.
Back by popular
demand is Thursday Add-on Programming. The topics this year cover writing
personal nonfiction, writing historical fiction, pitching, the query letter
lab, publicity and more. You'll get two 3-hour workshops, one in the morning
and one in the afternoon, plus a box lunch. That
is a bargain!
And don't forget to
stay tuned to this space. We'll have a Conference Countdown every third
Friday of the month, plus in-depth interviews with as many of the faculty as we
can fit in!
Make plans now to
join us for the 2013 PPW Conference. We'll have something for writers at every
stage of their career, and you get to spend an entire weekend rubbing elbows
with the best kind of people we know--other writers.
(And could someone
please loan me an exclamation point or two? I've used up at least three months' allotment here.)
MB Partlow
2013 PPWC
Programming Director
Programming@pikespeakwriters.com
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