I know I have a few panels to catch up on, but the launch for 2013 Conference has just been announced.
Fremantle 2013: Riding the Waves
Featuring:
Julia Quinn – keynote speaker, NY Times best selling romance author
Kim Hudson – workshop presenter
Nina Bruhns – mystery and erotic thriller writer
Sarah Wendell – author and co-founder of Smart Bitches Trashy Books
Also in conjunction with Curtain University there will be a parallel one day academic conference Reading & Writing Romance in the 21st Century. This conference is for academics, writers, independent researchers, publishers, RWA members, media and the general public. A call for papers will open in late August
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