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Breakout 4: World building panel
Mel Scott (moderator), Keri Arthur, Denise Rossetti, Alison Goodman, C. S. Pacat CS Pacal Writes fantasy with gay princes Keri Arthur Dark urban fantasy Alison Goodman Fantasy, sci fi, crime …
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Publishers’ Moderated Panel
Pippa Roscoe – Harlequin UK Moving into London Bridge Megan Farrell – Tulin Publishing Digital first, selected print Women’s fiction, romance, chicklit Marty Green – Pantera Press Boutique Sydney based …
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Opening Plenary 2: Mary-Jo Putney – Keynote address
Known for writing on controversial subjects. In 2014 got the Nora Roberts lifetime achievement award. Writing conventions – a group of introverts pretending to be extroverts for a weekend who …
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Breakout 3: Scrivener Workshop – Alison Stuart
Author Alison Stuart, runs Scrivener workshops for beginners. Scrivener is NOT a word processing program, it is a type of project management software to organise your writing and notes. How …
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Breakout 2: Alison Goodman: Scene diagnosis
Alison Goodman is an Australian writer of Young Adult fiction, including YA historical supernatural fiction set in the Regency period. Her seminar looked at four different diagnositic tools that can …
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Breakout 1: Chris Corbett – How stories work
Chris Corbett has written over forty hours of television – including episodes of MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES, STINGERS, THE DOCTOR BLAKE MYSTERIES, BLUE HEELERS, THE SECRET LIFE OF US, MCLEOD’S …
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How to plot a pageturner: C.S. Pacat
Plotting to create ‘narrative traction’, the page turning quality that drives readers through a book (and keeps them up until 3am) Aims: To learn new way of thinking about both …
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Opening keynote address: Graham Simsion – Men in romance
Graham Simsion is the author of The Rosie Project, background is in script writing He is the only person who could have written The Rosie Project, but everyone has the …
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Pitch Perfect
Kate Cuthbert (Escape digital imprint) and Sue Brockhoff (Harlequin Single Title) Pitching is way to get attention, get to know editor or publishing house Good way of getting manuscript …