805 Writers' Conference Podcasts and Handouts
Saturday, October 31
8:45 to 10:15 am — Morning Keynote Speaker
How to Get Published in Today’s Market with Enliven Books Publisher, Zhena Muzyka Download MP3 file TRACK ONE
10:30 am to 12:30 pm Story Structure—for authors and screenwriters with Author and Screenwriter, Alexandra Sokoloff No audio Handout - Structure Grid and Story Element Cards TRACK TWO
10:30 am to 12:30 pm Self-Publishing Primer—what has changed and how authors are selling books with Leann Garms, Build.Buzz.Launch Founder & Publishing Coach, and Sabrina Ricci of Digital Pubbing Download MP3 file Handouts from Sabrina Ricci
Presentation by S Ricci Handout from Sabrina Ricci Handouts from Leann Garms Finding Your Path to Publishing 1:30 to 2:30 pm — Afternoon Keynote
How I Adapt Fiction for the Tube and Screen Writer/Producer/Director and Author, John Wilder interviewed by Shelly Lowenkopf No handouts Download MP3 file 2:45 to 3:45 pm
The Trials and Triumphs of Self-Publishing—3 authors who did it tell all. with two award-winning authors, memorist Ivor Davis, and nonfiction author Erin Graffy, and novelist Anna Nicholas Download MP3 file TRACK TWO
2:45 to 3:45 pm How to Sell Books by the Truckload on Amazon Penny Sansevieri, CEO Author Marketing Experts and NYU Adjunct Instructor Download MP3 file Handout from Penny
4 to 6 pm — Closing Keynote
Literary Agents Panel With Angela Rinaldi, Marleen Seegers, BJ Robbins, Toni Lopopolo, Karen Grencik, Dana Newman, and Steve Hutson Moderated by Shelly Lowenkopf No handout Download MP3 file Sunday Fiction Master Class
with Shelly Lowenkopf and Toni Lopopolo Toni's Fiction Editing Philosophy Ten Most Common Mistakes First Novelists Make Lopopolo Literary Editing Services |
Sunday, November 1
8:45 to 10:15 am — Morning Keynote Session
Writing Articles for Regional Publications Marianne Partridge - Santa Barbara Independent, Sarene Wallace - Edible Ojai & Ventura County, Stacie Galang - VC Star, Bret Bradigan, Ojai Quarterly, and Michael Sullivan, VC Reporter. Download MP3 file TRACK ONE
10:30 to 11:30 am Mystery, Thriller, Suspense—Writing the Killer Page Turner No handouts Download MP3 file TRACK TWO
11:45 am to 12:45 pm Writing a Viable Non-Fiction Proposal: The Awful Truth with Brian Fagan, author of over 50 books No handout Download MP3 file TRACK TWO
10:30 am to 12:30 pm Status Report: Book Marketing and Publicity—What's working and why? Plus how to get outside the USA. with Publicist Flo Selfman, Book Marketer Jackie Lapin and Leann Garms, Build.Buzz.Launch Founder, with moderator Kathleen Kaiser Download MP3 file Handouts from Jackie Lapin
How to Radio Guide Internet Radio Conscious Companies Handouts from Flo Selfman Preferred references Handouts from Leann Garms What's Your Story New Authors Panel—How they got their deals and what they are doing to promote their books
with Alex Sheshunoff, Michaela Haas, Mark Miller, David Davis, and Margaret Grundstein No handouts Download MP3 file TRACK TWO
1:30 to 3:30 pm Memoir: Your Life as Story with Tristine Rainer, Author and Director at the Center for Autobiographic Studies No Handout Download MP3 file 4 to 6 pm — Closing Keynote
Book Editors Panel Roberta Edgar, Laurie Gibson, Flo Selfman, and Carol Fuchs with moderator Toni Lopopolo Download MP3 file |
