About Harriette Austin Program Director Charles Connor (706) 542-3876

The 8th Annual Harriette Austin Writers Conference July 20 - 21, 2001 Hosted at The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Athens, Georgia Presented by The College of Education The University of Georgia Visitors since May 1, 2001

  The notes for Judy Long's session, "What is Southern, Anyway?" are now available!  
 

Agents & EditorsAdditions  Authors  Mystery Writers of America PanelsAdditions  Bookstore  Forensics & Criminal Investigation  Schedule of Events  Manuscript Evaluations  Reception with Agents, Editors and Authors  Registration Form - Now available on-line  Four Ways to Register  Registration Fees  Lodging Reservations  Contact Information  Conference Facility Information Visit previous years' HAWC websites  2000 HAWC1998 HAWC 1999 HAWC1997 HAWC

Harriette Austin Writing Courses on the Web. Coming Soon! Watch this web site for details. Earn a Certificate in Creative Writing. Offered through the University of Georgia. Questions and queries should be sent to: Charles Connor, Program Director HAWC and MWA collaboration! The year 2001 marks the second year of collaboration between the Harriette Austin Writers Conference and the Mystery Writers of America, The Southeast Chapter , to provide an outstanding mystery thread for the conference, featuring currently published MWA authors in panels, appearances and book signings. & This year will mark the third year of association with Authorlink, the online information service for the publishing industry. Doris Booth, Editor-in-chief of Authorlink, will preside over ceremonies to announce and present winners in the Authorlink International New Author Awards Competition.

Michael Bourret

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Terry Kay - Bestselling author Terry Kay's works include the recently released, Taking Lottie Home (William Morrow/HarperCollins (2000), Special Kay - The Wisdom of Terry Kay (Hill Street Press, 2000), The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene (William Morrow, 1999), The Year the Lights Came On (1976), After Eli (1981), Dark Thirty (1984), To Dance With the White Dog (1990), Shadow Song (1995), and The Runaway (1997). He is also the author of the children's book, To Whom the Angel Spoke: A Story of the Christmas (1991). Two or his novels, To Dance With the White Dog and The Runaway were made into Hallmark Hall of Fame presentations. He has scripted an episode for In the Heat of the Night and won a Southern Emmy for his original teleplay, Run Down the Rabbit. His work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. He lives in Athens, Georgia. Picture: Terry with new granddaughter Tommie Bette Kay.
    Keynote address: "In the Face of Terrible Odds, Still We Write." The need to know you're not alone in your search for publication, and the further need to know that what you do matters, regardless of what happens to it.


Ronda Rich - is a Southern belle known for her bestselling What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should Know), Putnam 1999, that was chosen as a Doubleday Book of the Month; Publishers Weekly gave the audio version the 1999 Listen Up award as one of the best books of 1999; and her audio book was named as a finalist for the prestigious Audie awards in the personal development category. But she has also, for the past eight years, covered stock car racing as a journalist, and her agent, Richard Curtis, has just sold her second book, My Life in the Pits, for six figures to Harper's Tom Dupree, who preempted it and will publish next spring. She is now working on projects beyond the printed page, including a movie script for actress . . . (Sorry, we can't say who). Ronda has made dozens of TV appearances, including an appearance on Barbara Walters, and is regarded as one of the most creative and innovative promoters among today's authors. She always brings energy, excitement and creativity to the conference, and is always news.
    Session topic: Panel: "The Importance of Publicity and Promotion In Publishing." Books, regardless of how good they are, don't sell themselves. It takes planning, publicity and promotion to create best sellers and top movers. This session looks at strategy and the roles of both the publicist and author, as well as what catches the eye of the media and independent reviewers. With Tina Andreadis and Don O'Briant.
    Session topic:"The Business of Entertainment Publishing." Tom Dupree, Executive Editor at HarperEntertainment, and author Ronda Rich combine their experiences to discuss thinking beyond the book box into the field of entertainment
publishing. What is entertainment publishing and what does your book need to break into it? Keys to successful projects.

Stephen Michaud - After several years as a successful writer and reporter for Newsweek and Business Week, in 1983 Michaud with Hugh Aynesworth authored his first big hit, The Only Living Witness : The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy, to widespread critical praise. The New York Daily News called it one of the ten best true-crime books ever written. Criminology professors made it required reading. In 1989,  Ted Bundy was executed and Michaud and Aynesworth published an edited transcript of their interviews with Ted, called Conversations With A Killer. The book was a New York Times best-seller. Michaud has had a varied and distinguished writing career. This month, he will publish Dark Dreams, the second of two collaborations he has written with former FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood (The first was The Evil That Men Do). Authorlink Press has re-released in paperback Conversations With A Killer and The Only Living Witness.  This spring, Authorlink published a collection of Michaud and Aynesworth’s magazine pieces, entitled The Vengeful Heart. Michaud also recently realized a lifelong dream with Authorlink’s publication of The Miracle of Island Girl, the first in his projected series of true life animals tales for children.
    Session topic: "Reporting and Writing True-Crime." Stephen discusses how one goes about reporting and writing a true-crime book, and the market for true-crime books.  His presentation is liberally sprinkled with personal anecdotes.

Diana Palmer - Susan Spaeth Kyle, aka Diana Palmer, is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. She began selling romance novels in 1979 and now writes as Diana Palmer for three New York publishing houses: Mira Books (mainstream romances), Silhouette Books (contemporary series romances), and Fawcett Books (historical romances). Kyle has over 95 books in print, translated and published around the world. Her awards include seven Waldenbooks national sales awards, four B. Dalton national sales awards, two Bookrak national sales awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for series storytelling from Romantic Times, several Affaire de Coeur awards, and two regional RWA awards. In 1998, a Japanese Harlequin reader poll gave her Silhouette Desire novel, The Patient Nurse, its favorite book of the year award.
    Session topic: "Writing Across Genres." A good story is a good story, and it deserves the widest audience that can be reached. But your writing can suffer if you are locked into the conventions of a single genre. Learn to write outside the box.

Warren Murphy - novelist and screenwriter has won more than a dozen national awards for his work, including two Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and two Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers of America. Murphy has written more than one hundred books in a wide variety of crime genres and has worldwide sales of over forty million copies.   His creation, with the late Richard Sapir, of The Destroyer series was considered a milestone event in the history of pop adventure books because it opened up the previously-hidebound genre to satire, humor, mysticism, science fiction and fantasy. Murphy is also an accomplished screenwriter with various credits on Lethal Weapon II, The Eiger Sanction,Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins and Murphy's Law (ABC TV series.)  His short stories, frequently featuring a detective team of Trace and Chico, appear in various anthologies. Prentice Hall's Encyclopedia Mysteriosa calls Murphy "a mentor and teacher to a whole generation of crime and thriller writers." Murphy is a native of New Jersey where he worked in the press and later in politics but, he explains, “when everybody I worked for went to jail, I thought God was sending me a message to find a new line of work.”  His first book followed soon after.  He now lives in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
    Session topic: "Breaking into Hollywood’s Asylum: How to do it and what to expect when you get there."

Bob Mayer - has twenty novels published with seven more under contract.  His pen names include:  Robert Doherty, Greg Donegan, Joe Dalton, Bob McGuire & Debbie Cavanaugh.  His American publishers are Dell, Berkley, St. Martins and Presidio and he is published in twelve foreign countries.  The work ranges from military techno-thriller, to political thriller, to science fiction.  There are over two million copies of his books currently in print.  The last three AREA 51 novels were featured on USA Today’s Bestseller list.  All five AREA 51 books are ranked on Amazon’s all-time science fiction best-seller list, including #1 in High Tech Science Fiction.  Two Atlantis books are in Amazon’s top ten all time technothrillers.  The Riley series of books published by Presidio was optioned by producer Dan Curtis (The Winds of War; War & Remembrance). Area 51 has also been optioned for feature film development and the screenplay is being written by the writer who wrote Alien and Total Recall. Atlantis has also been optioned for film development.  His latest book, Psychic Warrior is currently under negotiation for film option.
    Session topic: "The Original Idea: The foundation for keeping focus and successfully writing the novel and for marketing it."  It is the one thing that cannot change in the course of writing.  The good news is: you had one.  The bad news is: most writers lose it along the way.  He’ll talk about how to recover it and package it so that it is the opening line of your query letter and ends up on the cover of your published novel.  Participants will have a chance to present their idea and have it worked on.

Penny Mickelbury - began her journalism career in 1970 in Athens, Georgia, as the first Black reporter for the Athens Banner-Herald. She is a recent recipient of the prestigious Prix du Roman d' Adventures Award for her Carole Ann Gibson mystery series, which includes The Step Between, Where to Choose, One Must Wait (a selection of the Literary Guild Book Club), and Paradise Interrupted (Simon & Schuster, 2001), the fourth in the series. The Dallas Morning News hails Carole Ann Gibson as a crime-fiction heroine "with plenty of spunk, plenty of savvy and plenty of potential in the growing mystery genre." Mickelbury is also the author of the books Keeping Secrets and Night Songs. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
    Session topic: "The 21st Century Writer: the pursuit of excellence and the perfect marketing plan."

Les Standiford - is author of nine novels including,  Spill (released as a feature film), Done Deal, Raw Deal, Deal to Die For, Deal on Ice, Presidential Deal, Black Mountain and just released e-book Opening Day. His latest hardcover, Deal with the Dead received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist. His articles and stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Putt at the End of the World, the New York Times best-seller, Naked Came the Manatee, Fodor’s, Writer’s Digest, and many more. He is a past recipient of the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. His books have been reprinted in Great Britain, France, Holland, Germany, and Japan. He is currently Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, where he has lived since 1981, with his wife Kimberly, a psychotherapist, and their three children, Jeremy, Hannah, and Alexander.Booklist calls his recurring character John Deal, "the most emotionally centered protagonist in contemporary crime fiction." And Thrilling Detective calls Standiford "one of the very best crime fiction writers alive."
    Session topic: "Keys to the Kingdom: Finding the Story in your Story."  How to zero in on the essentials of successful story-telling through structure. He’ll introduce the five-point checklist that will help fiction writers stay on track through the writing process.

Fred Willard - is a former news photographer who knows his characters from his own experience. His first novel, Down On Ponce, is in it's fifth printing and a film version is in active development. The Crime Writers Association of the United Kingdom nominated it for the Dagger for best first novel, and it received rave reviews internationally. Of his second novel, the Times of London said: "Princess Naughty and the Voodoo Cadillac is vintage stuff, with the same kind of acidic wit and high octane narrative that marked Down On Ponce as one of the finest hard-boiled debut novels." Willard is writing his third novel and is collaborating on several screenplays.
    Session topic: "Building your characters and revealing their substance." The secret of good characters is not only in creating them, but in knowing how you reveal them to your readers through the elements of your story.

Anne Underwood Grant was born in Savannah, Georgia, and has lived in North Carolina most of her life. She is a Phi Beta Kappa, Suma cum Laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in English and Drama. She owned an advertising agency in Charlotte, North Carolina, for 10 years before moving to a cabin in Mills River in Henderson County in the mountains of western North Carolina where she now lives and writes her books, is Executive Director of the Henderson County Arts Council and writes a weekly newspaper column. She is the author of the mystery series with protagonist Sydney Teague: Multiple Listing (Jan. 98), Smoke Screen (Aug. 98) and Cuttings (July 99) through Dell Publishing, and Voices In The Sand (Dec. 00) through Silver Dagger Mysteries.
    Session topic: "Publishing in New York City vs. Regional Publishers." Drawing from her own experience going from a major New York publisher to a small press, Anne will present some hard facts about such things as distribution, publicity, advances, royalties, etc. that mark the major differences, the advantages and disadvantages of one compared to the other.

Elizabeth Jones’ first novel, The Night Flyers, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery of 1999. She has three other juvenile mysteries for middle-grade readers to her credit, all from Pleasant Company Publications, part of its award-winning History Mystery series. Also out in 1999 was Secrets on 26th Street, and the following year, Watcher in the Piney Woods. Her fourth novel, Mystery on Skull Island, is due out in fall of 2001. In addition, Elizabeth’s stories and articles have appeared in such top-notch children’s magazines as Highlights, Cricket, Children's Digest, and Turtle.  In January 1998, she was voted Author of the month at Highlights for her history piece entitled “The Sit-ins That Shook Up the Nation.”  The same piece was awarded the History Feature of the Year from Highlights.
    Session Topic: "Piecing Together the Puzzle: How to Write the Juvenile Mystery." The workshop will explore the how-tos of who-done-its for young people, and will touch upon such topics as: From whence cometh your mystery; How to make your characters real and how to get them in and out of pickles; Suspense: how to make it, how to keep it; and, The Grand Finale: how to bring it all to a satisfying end.

Shandra Hill - In her first novel, Actions Speak Louder, the author parallels love with hate and reality with fantasy, and forces her protagonist to make some serious decisions about her tolerance, self-worth, and physical health. Author Shandra Hill is a freelance writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a former public relations coordinator for The Home Depot and a former writer for WSB-TV, the ABC affiliate and dominant station in Atlanta, Georgia.  She also has written for Weddingpages magazine and a stringer for Glamour magazine—both national publications. Prior experience in television news includes reporter for CBS affiliates WDEF-TV and WAKA-TV, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Montgomery, Alabama. Shandra lives in Atlanta and is completing her second novel, a work of Christian fiction.
    Session topic: "Why would anyone want to self-publish?" What can I expect from self-publishing? What kind of financial commitment? What about profits? How does a self-published author go about getting his or her book into bookstores? Advertising and promotion?  (With author Steve Brown.)

Steve Brown - Having Steve Brown is like having five different authors. Steve writes about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Of Love and War), a mystery series set at Myrtle Beach (When Dead Is Not Enough, 2001, Color Her Dead, Stripped To Kill, Dead Kids Tell No Tales), a novel of suspense about a radio psychotherapist with a secret past (Radio Secrets), and a story which asks the question: what would a modern-day Scarlett and Rhett be like? (Black Fire). Steve's latest novel (Fallen Stars) is a thriller about the long-range reconnaissance patrols that operated during the Vietnam War.
    Session topic: "Why would anyone want to self-publish?" What can I expect from self-publishing? What kind of financial commitment? What about profits? How does a self-published author go about getting his or her book into bookstores? Advertising and promotion? (With author Shandra Hill.)

Beverly Connor - Beverly Connor says some of her favorite things are bones. (You heard right!). "One of my favorite jobs is analyzing animal bones from archaeological sites. I also like mysteries. I combined these two favorite things and write mysteries in which I weave my professional experience as an archaeologist and my lifelong experience with Southern culture into interlinked stories of the past and present." Titles in her five-book Lindsay Chamberlain mystery series have been on national best-seller lists repeatedly over the past two years, and she is currently nominated for "Best Mystery-Suspense of 2000" by Romantic Times Magazine for Airtight Case (2000). The April 2001 release of her first paperback title A Rumor of Bones from Cumberland House hit No. 8 on the Top 10 National Bestsellers paperback list of  The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) for April 2001. Her second paperback title Questionable Remains (May 2001) from Worldwide has just been released. Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, she now lives in the woods of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, with her two dogs, a horse, two cats, an occasional emu, and a husband. She is author of the Lindsay Chamberlain archaeological mystery series (A Rumor of Bones, 1996; Questionable Remains, 1997; Dressed to Die, 1998; Skeleton Crew, 1999; Airtight Case, 2000).
    Session topic: "Research and Writing: Knowing What You Write About." The rule for establishing and maintaining credibility with your readers is "Write about what you know." No matter what your level of expertise, the need to renew and expand your knowledge is never ending. And what about those things you want to write about but are outside of your personal expertise. Beverly Connor will show you research methods and strategies to build credibility into your writing.

John Winterhawk - Native American spiritual leader, teacher and lecturer. John is a Muscogee Creek tribe spiritual leader who is well known and honored for his Native American teachings and lectures. He demonstrates to his listeners how to achieve a more harmonious lifestyle that focuses on the principles of love, honor, respect, and integrity. Through his ancestral teachings he brings a new understanding of the old ways of living -- living out of our hearts and not our heads. John will be the conference's featured dinner speaker. Visit the Winterhawk website at http://www.johnwinterhawk.com/  Hear beautiful and soothing Native American sounds by The Winterhawks on mp3.
    Dinner speaker topic: "Ehe'nwv - The Truth, How We Recognize it and Communicate it." Ehe'nwv is
pronounced (eanwa) and is Muscogee for truth.

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About the Panelists . . .

Nancy Bartholomew - author of two humorous, amateur sleuth mystery series, her STRIP series (Miracle Strip, Drag Strip, Film Strip, St. Martins Press) features exotic dancer, Sierra Lavotini, her hairless Chihuahua, Fluffy, and one very handsome detective, John Nailor. Nancy's other series features country and western singer wanna-be, Maggie Reid, (Your Cheatin' Heart, Stand By Your Man, Harper Collins). Nancy lives in Greensboro, NC with her two boys and a host of animals too mangy to mention! In her spare time, Nancy is a psychotherapist in private practice.

Patrick Bone - Following a law-enforcement career which included a stint as Telluride, Colorado, marshal, Patrick Bone published short stories, novels, skits, plays, and scripts for dance pieces. He is an actor, storyteller, horseman, writing and drama teacher. His newest novel, A Melungeon Winter is a civil rights mystery set in the 50's.

Evelyn Coleman - knows how to keep the pages turning in her inventive, funny, assured debut thriller, What A Woman’s Gotta Do from Simon & Schuster, according to Publisher’s Weekly. Her children’s books have also garnered much recognition. She was recently awarded the Atlanta Mayor’s Fellowship for achievement in children’s literature and is a past recipient of the North Carolina Fiction Fellowship. Before her writing career she was a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and stress management trainer. She is a frequent lecturer and workshop leader.

Dawn Cook - writes character-driven fantasy and fantasy detective novels with a firm nod to realism. Once upon a time, her most literary accomplishment was gaining the attention of a prominent NY literary agent. Now? She just sold two novels to Berkely!

Craig Faris - a five-time award winning author of short fiction, including two Best of Issue Awards in 1999 and 2000, South Carolina Writers Workshop anthologies. Craig writes killer query letters.

Norman Froscher - has been described as dynamic and captivating, has written one novel, Blood Dance, and is at work on two others. He has agent attention.

Mike McNabb - At age 51, left an executive position with Michelin Tire Corporation to pursue his life-long dream of becoming a writer. After a stint with an advertising agency, McNabb started working on a novel and returned to teaching English. His first novel, The Edge of the Water, was published in July, 2000. His second novel, Out of Focus, is in its final editing stage and a third, My Watch Has Stopped, is completed in the first draft, with one of the chapters published in The Storyteller magazine.

Tim Myers - makes his novel debut with Innkeeping With Murder, published by Berkley Prime Crime. He is the author of over seventy mystery short stories.

Andy Straka - his first novel, A Witness Above, starring private eye and falconer Frank Pavlicek, was just released by Signet in May. A prequel appears in Signet's new short story anthology, And The Dying Is Easy. The second book in the Pavlicek series is due out in March 2002, also from Signet.

Ellis Vidler wrote her first mystery at the ambitious age of eight. She has since learned that miraculous insights do not make good endings. After taking classes and studying, learning by trial and error, she won the 1990 South Carolina Writers Conference prize for short fiction for "Restitution." Silver Dagger Mysteries will publish Haunting Refrain, her first romantic suspense/mystery, in 2002. There will definitely be a party!
 
 
 
 
 

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Write authoritatively about crime scene investigation, forensics, police procedure by learning from the experts who do it. Enter the world of laser lights, super glue, gene code matching, personality profiling and good old fashioned detective work.

Dr. Emily Craig - State Forensic Anthropologist of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, with a worldwide reputation as an expert in the recovery, identification, and analysis of human skeletal remains, decomposed bodies, body parts, and charred fragmented remains. She was a key member of the team that discovered and analyzed the fatal gunshot wounds in the Branch Davidians in Waco, and she helped identify victims of both the Waco incident and the Oklahoma City bombing. Dr. Craig now works full-time for the Kentucky State Medical Examiner's Office, and a large majority of her cases originate in remote areas of Eastern Kentucky. Crime scenes here include abandoned coal mines, marijuana fields, steep mountain ridges and raging rivers. These venues provide colorful and informative material to Dr. Craig's scientific presentations.
    Session topic: "Forensic Anthropology: From The Field to The Courtroom".

Dr. Neal Haskell - One of the leading forensic entomologists in the U.S., has worked on over 500 death investigations. He will tell you how knowledge of insects and other bugs can be used to determine the time since death, geographic and habitat links between victims and their assailants, and can extend into areas of child abuse and neglect of the elderly. You will learn the importance of recognition, recovery, collection, preservation, and handling of entomological evidence.
    Session topic: "Bugs as Forensic Evidence."

Special Agent Terry Cooper - Crime Scene Expert with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, is specially trained and equipped with the latest technology for crime scene analysis. He will demonstrate current crime scene investigation techniques and technology. When your local sheriff says, "We better call in the state crime lab on this one," Agent Cooper will show you what the sheriff is calling for.
    Session topic: "Crime Scene Investigation Procedures."

Andrea Campbell - Author of several reference books pertaining to the criminal justice system and primarily criminal law and forensic science. A diplomat and Fellow with ACFE and a member of IAI, she holds a degree in criminal justice. Campbell teaches eight different technical online workshops for both Romance Writers of America's Kiss of Death Chapter and Painted Rock Writers and Readers Colony, and shares her knowledge here with you.
    Session topic: "Forensic Artist Techniques & Demonstration." Campbell was trained by the best forensic artists in both forensic reconstruction sculpture using skulls, and forensic comprehensive composite art for identification drawings. An invaluable introduction into the world of forensic art methodology which is part technical, part artistic, and part general know-how will be brought to life.

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Label your manuscript as to genre or type and specify your preferred evaluator (We cannot guarantee your first choice). Make check for $30 payable to HAWC Manuscript Evaluations, and mail two copies of writing sample directly to :

Dr. Charles Connor
HAWC Manuscript Evaluations
G-9 Aderhold, UGA
Athens, GA 30602-7101

Miriam Goderich & Michael Bourret -

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Come meet and mingle in a casual atmosphere with editors, agents and writers-- the people who make the industry work and who will be presenting the sessions at our conference. The reception will feature the beginning of a silent auction that will continue throughout the day on Saturday. Conference goers will have the opportunity to bid on many one of a kind items, such as autographed books, original manuscripts, works of art, Saturday lunch or dinner with your favorite author, agent or publisher, and items donated by local business and supporters.

Entertainment by Athens Improv & Gordon Stelter
The Athens Improv Group has been performing for several years at festivals, conferences, institutes, theaters, churches and for fund raising events. Athens Improv is made up of local dedicated and experienced performers (writers, educators, consultants, trained actors and very neat people) who create improvisational scenes on the spot during their performances.  Like "Second City" of Chicago, and the very popular ABC television show "Whose Line is it Anyway?" (Drew Carey's, or the English one rerun on Comedy Central) the performers come prepared with a program of Improv "Games" and "Structures" to entertain and challenge the minds of the audience.  Then they ask for and use ideas on-the-spot gathered from the audience to create short scenes. Themes from the writer's conference and its planned workshops will be used during the performance. Music by Gordon Stelter playing stride piano.

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Saturday, July 21
8:00-8:30 AM Conference Registration
8:30-9:40 AM General Session, Keynote: Terry Kay - "In the Face of Terrible Odds, Still We Write."
9:50-10:50 AM
1-a	Tom Dupree & Ronda Rich - "The Business of Entertainment Publishing"
1-b	Ron Pitkin - "Something I Want Every Aspiring Writer to Know"
1-c	Les Standiford - "Keys to the Kingdom: Finding the Story in your Story"
1-d	Lyn Deardorff - "How to Get Your Children's Book Manuscript Successfully Published"
1-e	Agt. Terry Cooper - "Crime Scene Investigation Procedures"
1-f	Shandra Hill & Steve Brown - "Why Would Anyone Want to Self-Publish?"
11:00 AM -12:00 PM
2-a	Diana Palmer - "Writing Across Genres"
2-b	Toni Weisskopf - "Speculation to Fiction: Developing the Story Idea in Science Fiction"
2-c	Judy Long - "What is Southern, Anyway?"
2-d	Susan Malone - "Surviving Publishing's Maelstrom: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Becoming Successful in an Elite Business"
2-e	Andrea Campbell - "Forensic Artist Techniques & Demonstration"
2-f	Panel: "Characters That Get Noticed" - Nancy Bartholomew, Patrick Bone, Evelyn Coleman
12:00-1:30 PM  Lunch -  Announcement of the Winners of the Authorlink 2001 International New Author Awards Competition. Luncheon address by Doris Booth, CEO of Authorlink - "The eBook Invasion: An Updated Report on Opportunities and Pitfalls"
1:30-2:30 PM
3-a	Warren Murphy - "Breaking into Hollywood's Asylum: How to Do It and What to Expect When You Get There"
3-b	Fred Willard - "Building Your Characters and Revealing Their Substance"
3-c	Miriam Goderich - "Behind-the-Scenes Agenting:  What Your Relationship with Your Agent Should Entail Before, During, and After the Sale of Your Book"
3-d	Elizabeth Jones - "Piecing Together the Puzzle: How to Write the Juvenile Mystery"
3-e	Dr. Neal Haskell - "Bugs as Forensic Evidence"
3-f	Panel: "How We Did It: Newbie Successes" - Tim Myers, Andy Straka, Mike McNabb, Ellis Vidler
2:40-3:40 PM
4-a	Tina Andreadis, Ronda Rich & Don O'Briant - Panel: "The Importance of Publicity and Promotion In Publishing"
4-b	Jeff Kleinman - "The Prying Eye: What Writers Can Write About Other People . . ."
4-c	Anne Underwood Grant - "Publishing in New York City vs. Regional Publishers"
4-d	Tracey Adams - "First Pages - Hear How an Agent/Editor Thinks When She is Reading Your Manuscript"
4-e	Dr. Emily Craig - "Forensic Anthropology: From The Field to The Courtroom"
4-f	Panel: "How I Got An Agent Before My Book Was Sold" - Norman Froscher, Susan Saunders, Dawn Cook, Craig Faris
3:50-4:50 PM
5-a	Penny Mickelbury - "The 21st Century Writer: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perfect Marketing Plan"
5-b	Chris Roerden - "Sh-h...I'm a Ghostwriter & You Can Be, Too"
5-c	Jessica Faust - "The Search is On: Finding the Perfect Agent"
5-d	Bob Mayer - "The Original Idea: The Foundation for Successfully Writing and Marketing the Novel"
5-e	Stephen Michaud - "Reporting and Writing True-Crime"
5-f	Beverly Connor - "Research and Writing: Knowing What You Write About"
5:00-6:00 Authors' Mega Book Signing with 24 authors!
7:00-8:30 Dinner with Native American speaker John Winterhawk
	Dinner speaker topic: "Ehe'nwv - The Truth, How We Recognize it and Communicate it"

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Entries are now in for the third annualAuthorlink 2001 International New Author Awards Competition, and judging is now underway. Submissions to the contest come from across the United States and as far away as the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, United Arab Aeuae, Netherlands, Australia and Indonesia.

Eleven category winners will be notified and posted on the Authorlink! site (http://www.authorlink.com) in late May or early June. This year's final selections will be judged by a distinguished panel of recognized editors and literary agents.

Cash prizes will be awarded for Best of Show, ($500), and for First Place ($100 each) in eleven categories. The top award recipient will have their winning first chapter published on the Authorlink web site, and will receive an expense paid trip to the Harriette Austin Writers Conference where top editors and agents will speak.

All first place winners will receive a free six-month listing in the Authorlink manuscript showcase.

Three winners of the Authorlink New Author Awards competition have landed major publishing contracts within the past 18 months. The latest Authorlink contestant to become published is Cynthia G. Alwyn (pen name), who placed among the top three in the 1999 Authorlink awards competition. Cynthia finalized her business partnership with her agent, Anne Hawkins, at the 1999 Authorlink Awards presentation at the 7th Annual Harriette Austin Writers Conference. A short time later, her novel Best Served Cold was bought by St. Martins Press for an undisclosed amount.

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. . . about scheduling, accommodations, facilities? Contact Barbara Marable. E-mail Barbara_Marable@gactr.uga.edu. Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Phone 706-542-1585, Fax 706-542-6465.

. . . about sessions, activities, manuscript evaluations or presenters? Contact Dr. Charles Connor, Program Director. E-mail cconnor@coe.uga.edu. Phone 706-542-3876, Fax 706-542-0360.

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