FRIDAY, APRIL 11 |
5:30 - 8:00 pm
6:30 - 9:00 pm | Registration
Mixer | >SPEAKER BIOS
Get the scoop on who you'll see at this year's conference. |
SATURDAY, APRIL 12 |
8:00 - 8:45 am | Registration | | |
8:45 - 9:00 am | Greetings | | | |
9:00 am - 4:50 pm | EDITOR/AGENT CONSULTATIONS -- All day Saturday
Four experts will give 10-minute consultations. Sign up for your session at the registration table Friday night or Saturday. |
| | Consultations available with:
| • Elizabeth Burton, Editor & Author
• Joan Upton Hall, Editor & Author | • Jim McCarthy, Literary Agent
• Katherine Ramsland, Forensic Psychologist |
9:00 - 11:50 am | WORKSHOPS | FACT | FICTION | |
| | 9:00 - 9:50 am | The Art of Surveillance
Daryl & JJ Bugner, Private Investigators | The Criminal Mind for Writers
Katherine Ramsland, Forensic Psychologist |
| | 10:00 - 10:50 am | Police Tools & Equipment
Lee Lofland, Police & CSI Expert | 7 Steps to a Magical Rewrite
Nancy Pickard, Author |
| | 11:00 - 11:50 am | Insights - World of Underwater Investigation
Michael Stueven, Criminal Investigator | Color My World
Elizabeth Burton, Editor & Author |
11:50 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch and Book Signings/Sales
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1:00 - 4:50 pm | WORKSHOPS | FACT | FICTION | |
| 1:00 - 1:50 pm | AJ - At Work
Wally Roberts & AJ, State Investigator | Self-Editing Strategies
Joan Upton Hall, Editor & Author |
| 2:00 - 2:50 pm | How To Think Like A Detective
Lee Lofland, Police & CSI Expert | Slippery Slopes of Suspense
Jennie Spallone, award-winning Chicago Mystery Author |
| 3:00 - 3:50 pm | Fire Investigation K-9
Capt. Brad Crisp & Jodie, Wichita Fire Dept. | The Art of the Query
Jim McCarthy, New York Agent |
| 4:00 - 4:50 pm | Wichita PD Crime Scene Unit
N. Jamal Bara, WPD CSI Supervisor | One Half of Everything I Know About Writing
Reed Arvin, Author |
4:50 - 6:00 pm | Break |
6:00 - 6:30 pm | Social Time |
6:30 - 7:30 pm | Banquet Dinner |
7:30 - 8:30 pm | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Katherine Ramsland, Forensic Psychologist
Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers / Art of the Villain |
8:30 - 9:30 pm | KWA Writing Contest Winners Announced
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SUNDAY, APRIL 13 |
9:00 - 11:50 am | WORKSHOPS | FACT | FICTION | |
| | 9:00 - 9:50 am | How to Annoy An Acquisitions Editor
Elizabeth Burton, Editor & Author | First Paragraph, First Page: Learning from the Masters
Nancy Pickard, Author |
| | 10:00 - 10:50 am | Bare Facts or Lively Ones
Joan Upton Hall, Editor & Author | The Other Half of Everything I Know About Writing
Reed Arvin, Author |
| | 11:00 - 11:50 am | Expecting The Unexpected -- Surprise
Jim McCarthy, New York Agent | Interviewing Your Heroes & Villains
Jennie Spallone, award-winning Chicago Mystery Author |
11:50 am | Conference ends
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