How To For Writers
Listed here are Writers’ Pavilion panels, writing workshops and writers’ organizations exhibiting at the Book Fair!
THE WRITERS’ PAVILION FEATURES…
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
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 UCLA Writers’ Extension Program)
(2:00-2:45pm)
Cecilia Brainard, Lisa Teasley, Mary Yukari Waters
Modearator: 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
WRITING WORKSHOPS IN “THE WRITING ROOM”
SCRIPT WRITING WORKSHOP
(10:30am-Noon)
Facilitated by Che’Rae Adams
No Signing
WRITING FOR MULTIPLE MARKETS: FROM NEW YORK TO HOLLYWOOD
(Noon-1:30pm)
Facilitated by Jann Robbins
No Signing
CUT & PASTE: A ‘ZINE WRITING WORKSHOP
(1:30-3:00pm)
Facilitated by Tess Lotta
No Signing
SCREENPLAYLAB IMPROV SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP
(3:00-4:30pm)
Facilitated by Robin Rowe
No Signing
IN ADDITION…
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
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
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), Others TBA
Moderator: Joshua Dysart (Swamp Thing, Conan and the Midnight God)
Signing @ Golden Apple booth
Pavilion: Comics/SciFi/Horror
HORROR IN SHORT BURSTS: CRAFTING STORIES FOR THE HORROR ANTHOLOGY
Time: 1:15-2:15pm
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)
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
Pavilion: Comics/SciFi/Horror
DORKS, GEEKS, DWEEBS & FREAKS: WRITING FOR TEENS AND TWEENS
(2:30-3:30pm)
Cecil Castellucci, Kerry Madden, Amy Goldman Koss, Mark L. William, Lisa Yee
Moderator: Sally Nemeth
Signing @ Book Soup booth
KILLER TIPS FOR WRITING CRIME NOVELS
(2:45-3:45pm)
Susan Diamond, Gar Anthony Haywood, Paul Levine, April Smith
Moderator: John Morgan Wilson
Signing @ Crime Time Books booth
Pavilion: Mystery & Suspense
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
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 booth
Pavilion: Comics, SciFi, Horror Pavilion
EXHIBITORS
Authors’ Coalition
Book Publicists of Southern California
California Writers Club–Mid-Wilshire Chapter
Independent Writers of Southern California
Koreh LA
LAwritersgroup.com
Los Angeles Writer’s Center
OnceWritten.com
PEN Center USA
The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
UCLA Extension Writers’ Program
WriteGirl
Writing Pad