2007 Panels & Special Guests
FICTION PAVILION
AT LAST: FIRST FICTION
(11:00am-Noon)
Alex Espinoza, Jeff Hobbs, Karen Mack, Jennifer Kaufman, Andrea Portes
Moderator: Eduardo Santiago
Signing @ Book Soup booth
THE LIVES OF OTHERS: RESEARCH AND IMAGINATION IN HISTORICAL FICTION
(12:15-1:15pm)
Maggie Anton, Carlos Mock, Mark Frost, Kathleen McGowan
Moderator: Stacy Bierlein
Signing @ Book Soup booth
AROUND THE WORLD: FICTION IN FOREIGN LANDS
(1:15-2:15pm)
David Francis, Lisa Fugard, Gina Nahai, Ngugi Wa’Thiongo
Moderator: Greg Bills
Signing @ Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth
DORKS, GEEKS, DWEEBS & FREAKS: WRITING FOR TEENS AND TWEENS
(2:30-3:30pm)
Cecil Castellucci, Kerry Madden, Amy Goldman Koss, Mark L. Williams, Lisa Yee
Moderator: Sally Nemeth
Signing @ Book Soup booth
L.A. STORIES: FICTITIOUS LIVES IN THE MYTHIC CITY
(3:30-4:30pm)
Noel Alumit, Will Beall, Gregory Hinton, Tara Ison
Moderator: Holly Hofmann
Signing @ Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth
THE PEOPLE, PLACES & POLITICS PAVILION
ENERGY HEALING IN THE 21st CENTURY
(11:00am-Noon)
Rhobbin Alexis, Deborah King Pdh, Judith Lukomski, Dr. David Y. Wong, MD
Moderator: Ron Kato
Signing @ Bodhi Tree booth
WHO I AM?: WRITING THE MEMOIR
(Noon-1:00pm)
Jerry Heller, Dinah Lenney, Aaron Raz Link, Emily Rapp
Moderator: Samantha Dunn
Signing at Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth
DEFEND NEW ORLEANS: ON PROTECTING, SERVING, PRESERVING AND SAVING A GREAT AMERICAN CITY
(1:15-2:00pm)
Mark Broyard, Loraine Despres Eastlake, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Grady Thirkill, Joann Thirkill
Moderator: Jervey Tervalon
Jevrvey Tervalon signing @ West Hollywood Writes booth
Loraine Despres signing @ Book Events & Authors Unlimited Booth
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’
(2:15-3:00pm)
Ann & Farley Olander, Scott Pirotrowski, Elizabeth Pomeroy
Moderator: Tina Carey
Signing @ Mystic Sisters booth
POLITICK-TICK-TICKING: TALKING 2008
(3:30-4:30pm)
John Dean, Susan Estrich, Dennis Loo
Moderator: Councilmember John Heilman
Signing @ Book Events & Authors Unlimited Booth
COMICS/SCIFI/HORROR PAVILION
THE WILD WORLD OF COMICS: THE TRIUMPHS & TRIBULATIONS OF BEING A SMALL PRESS/INDIE COMIC BOOK PUBLISHER
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Joey Andrade (The Descendants), Mark Anthony Masterson (Dorothy), Rafael Navarro (Sonambulo), and Michelle Reese (My Tangled Misfits).
Moderator: Billy Martinez (Wildflower, K.A. Girl)
Signing @ Indie Comics Creators Booth
THE SPIRIT AND CRAFT OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Time: 12:15-1:15pm
Jessica Abel (La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Soundtrack, Art Babe), Cecil Castellucci (The Plain Janes), and David Mack (Kabuki, Daredevil, The Shy Creatures)
Moderator: Joshua Dysart (Swamp Thing, Conan and the Midnight God)
Signing @ Golden Apple booth
HORROR IN SHORT BURSTS: CRAFTING STORIES FOR THE HORROR ANTHOLOGY
Time: 1:15-2:15pm
Gary Brandner (Creator of “The Howling” and “Cameron’s Closet”)
Jeff Gelb (Bram Stoker Award Winning editor of over 20 anthologies)
Lisa Morton (Bram Stoker Award winning author and screenwriter)
Joey O’Bryan, (author and screenwriter)
Debbie Lynn Smith (Has written short stories and for “Murder, She Wrote”; “Touched by an Angel”; “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”)
Moderator: Del Howison (Bram Stoker Award Winning editor along with being an author, a journalist, and co-owner of the the World Famous horror emporium Dark Delicacies)
Signing @ Dark Delicacies booth
SPOTLIGHT ON FABLES
Time: 2:15-3pm
Bill Willingham, James Jean
Moderator: Ryan Liebowitz
Signing @ Golden Apple booth
MANGA 101: DISCOVER THE HOTTEST TREND IN PUBLISHING AND ENTERTAINMENT!
Time: 3:15-4:15pm
Felipe Smith (author and artist of MBQ)
Jim Pascoe (author of Undertown, and Emmy-winning writer of Kim Possible and Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Rikki Simons (co-creator of ShutterBox, voice actor of GIR on Invader ZIM)
Tavisha Simons (co-creator of ShutterBox, author Sushi Girl, Ranklechick and his Three Legged Cat, and Reality Check!)
Stormcrow Hayes (author of Afterlife, and adaptations of the best-selling .hack novels, screenwriter of The Deal)
Steve Buccellato (creator of Battle of the Bands, Publisher / Editor-in-Chief at Comiculture)
Tricia Riley Hale (author of Grand Theft Galaxy, color artist for Warner Bros., and Sony Animation)
Moderator: Hope Donovan, Tokyopop Editor
Signings @ Tokyopop booth
WHAT MAKES A GOOD SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY STORY
What does the Science Fiction/Fantasy writer have to do to write a story that keeps the reader turning the page?
Time: 4:15-5:15pm
Dr. Jerry Pournelle (co-author of Lucifer’s Hammer, Footfall), Todd McCaffrey (Dragonsblood, co-author of Dragonholder & Dragon’s Kin with Anne McCaffrey, Steven Barnes (Star Wars: The Cestus Deception, Great Sky Woman: A Novel, Charisma)
Moderator: Karl Lembke
Signings @ The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society booth
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT PAVILION
HOLLYWOOD DREAM: FACT OR FICTION
(11:00am-Noon)
Lori Culwell, Anna David, Heather Howard
Moderator: Kara Hoppe
Signings @ Book Soup booth
STAR TREK MANGA: OPENING NEW WORLDS FOR CLASSIC TREK
(12:00-1:00pm)
Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation and author of The Happiest Days of our Lives)
Christine Boylan (writer Superman Secret Files, Legion of Super-Heroes, Heroes Graphic Novels)
Mike Wellman (creator of Mac Afro, Gone South)
E.J. Su (artist Transformers, Sam and Twitch)
Don Hudson (Gunpowder Girl and the Outlaw Squaw, Comiculture Anthology, Forever Amber)
Moderator: Luis Reyes, Tokyopop Senior Editor
Signings @ Tokyopop booth
OUR LIPS UNSEALED: HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP PAST & PRESENT
(1:00-1:45pm)
Sam Bernstein, Cindy Bokma, Janet Charlton, John Gilmore
Moderator: Dennis Hensley
Signing - John Gilmore @Circus of Books booth & Sam Bernstein @ West Hollywood Writes booth; Cindy Bokma @ Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth
SPOTLIGHTS & SHADOWS: LIFE STORIES ON AND OFF STAGES AND SCREENS
(2:00-3:00pm)
Chuck Panozzo, Neile McQueen Toffel (aka Neile Adams), Victoria Rowell
Moderator: Beverly Gray
Chuck Panazzo signing @ Circus of Books booth
Neile McQueen Toffel & Victoria Rowell signing @ Book Soup booth
CRACKING UP: WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF LAUGHTER (Sponsored by the City of West Hollywood’s Women’s Advisory Board)
(3:15-4:15pm)
Meghan Daum, Beth Lapides, Cathryn Michon, Erika Schickel
Moderator: Hilary Carlip
Signing @ Book Soup booth
THE MYSTERY & SUSPENSE PAVILION
LA NOIR: CRIME FICTION CLOSE TO HOME
(11:00am-Noon)
Emory Holmes II, Jim Pascoe, Gary Phillips
Moderator: Sam Quinones
Signing @ Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth
DARK PAST: THE HISTORICAL CRIME NOVEL
(12:15-1:15pm)
Aileen G. Baron, Cordelia Frances Biddle, Gay Kinman, Michael Mallory
Moderator: James Lincoln Warren
Signing at Crime Time Books booth
MURDER MOST COZY: CRIME ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
(1:30-2:30pm)
Joanne Fluke, Linda O. Johnston, Susan Kandel, Linda Palmer
Moderator: Sue Ann Jaffarian
Signing at Crime Time Books booth
KILLER TIPS FOR WRITING CRIME NOVELS
(2:30-3:30pm)
Susan Diamond, Gar Anthony Haywood, Paul Levine, April Smith
Moderator: John Morgan Wilson
Signing at Crime Time Books booth
WHEN FACT MEETS FICTION: RESEARCH AND AUTHENTICITY IN THE CRIME NOVEL
(3:45-4:45pm)
Marissa Batt, Gregg Hurwitz, Doug Lyle, MD, Christopher Rice
Moderator: Sheila Lowe
Signing at Crime Time Books booth
IN CONVERSATION PAVILION
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS CYNTHIA KADOHATA (2005) & SUSAN PATRON (2007) IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID ULIN
(11:00-11:45am)
Signing at Skylight Books booth
MARK SALZMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH LESLIE SCHWARTZ
(12:00-12:45pm)
Signing @ Book Soup booth
GUSTAVO ARELLANO & SAM QUINONES TALK IMMIGRATION
(2:00-2:45pm)
Signing @ IMIX Bookstore booth
REZA ASLAN IN CONVERSATION
(3:00-3:45pm)
Signing @ Book Soup booth
2007 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER JONATHAN GOLD IN CONVERSATION WITH LAURIE WINER
(4:00-4:45pm)
Signing at Skylight Books booth
THE WRITERS’ PAVILION
TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG
(11:00am-Noon)
Adrienne Crew, Margo Candela, Kevin Roderick, Mark Sarvas
Moderator: Daniel Olivas
Book Signing at Skylight Books booth
CREATING PEACE IN OUR LIVES
(12:00-1:00pm)
Petra Eiko, Betty Kovacs, Judie O’Neill, Mark Waller
Moderator: Tina Carey
Signing @ Mystic Sisters
FOLLOW YOUR DREAM: PREPARE FOR PUBLISHING THE PROFESSIONAL WAY
(1:00-1:45pm)
June Casagrande, Ina Hillebrandt, Christopher Meeks, Elizabeth Pomeroy Moderator: Carolyn Howard- Johnson
Signing @ Authors’ Coalition booth
THE WRITING LIFE: STRIKING A BALANCE BETWEEN YOUR WRITING AND ANYTHING THAT GETS IN THE WAY
(Presented by the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program)
(2:00-2:45pm)
Cecilia Brainard, Lisa Teasley, Mary Yukari Waters
Moderator: Mary Otis
Signing @ Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth
HOW TO MAKE A BOOK A SUCCESS
(3:00-3:45pm)
Betsy Amster, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Bella Stander
Moderator: Kim Dower (Kim-From-L.A. Literary & Media Services)
Signing @ Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth
TAKING CHARGE: THE INS & OUTS OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING
(4:00-4:45pm)
Paula Edwards, DC Elmore, Kathleen McGowan
Moderator: Nick Nolan
Author Hosted Signing @ The Writer’s Pavilion
THE QUEER, HOT AND AVANT-GARDE PAVILION
L.A. AVANT-GARDE & UNDERGROUND LITERATURE
(11:00-11:45am)
Harold Abramowitz, Teresa Carmody, Darin Klein, Ara Shirinyan, Jane Sprague
Moderators: Stephanie Rioux & Matt Timmons
Signing@ Les Figues Press booth
WE ARE EVERYWHERE: GAY & LESBIAN URBAN HISTORY
(Noon-1:00pm)
Jeanne Cordova, Felice Picano, James Van Buskirk
Moderator: Stuart Timmons
Signing @ A Different Light booth
GAY PUBLISHING: STATE OF EMERGENCY
(1:00-2:00pm)
Noel Alumit, Charles Flowers, Patricia Nell Warren
Moderator: Christopher Rice
Signing @ A Different Light booth
LITERARY FOREMOTHERS: A LESBIAN TRADITION
(2:15-3:15pm)
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Myriam Gurba, Ali Liebegott, Fiona Zedde
Moderator: Lisa Freeman
Signing @ A Different Light booth
FICTIONAL SEX – THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE NEVER TO BE DONE AGAIN
(3:30-4:40pm)
Jenoyne Adams, Midori, Rob Roberge, Thomas Roche
Moderator: Christine Louise Berry
Signing@ Daedalus Publishing Booth