Breakout session: Writing the Emotional Rollercoaster

Presented by Joan Kilby, a contemporary romance writer.  She is from Canada but lives in Melbourne, and many of her stories are either set in Australia or have Australian characters. This was a good, practical crafting session.  Some of it covered ground that was similar to Valerie Parv’s session yesterday, but it was still good […]

Plenary session: The Next 20 Years

Panel discussion with authors Kelley Armstrong, Stephanie Laurens, and Bob Mayer, and also Angela James (Executive editor, Carina Press) and Kristin Nelson (Nelson Literary Agency). This was really interesting, particularly in terms of where ebooks are going.  The consensus seemed to be that more and more technology would come into the publishing process, and as […]

Writers’ Conference – Day 3

These are my sessions for today:  8.30am – 10.15am – Plenary session, Keynote address by Marion Lennox.  Panel session ‘The Next 20 Years’ 10.45am – 12.15pm – Breakout session 4 ‘Writing the Emotional Rollercoaster’ 1.15pm – 2.15pm – Breakout session 5 ‘Sense and Sanity – Living with the First Draft’ 2.25pm – 3.25pm – Breakout […]