Southern California Writers' Conference: 

A writer is a writer before, as well as after, publication.

A Weekend For Words, September 20-22, 2013

Events, Sessions, Panels

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Workshop

Are You Agent Ready? How to Stand Out

Birthing Your Book, Birthing Yourself

Blurring the Boundaries: The Confluence of Fiction, Real Life and Imagination

Bridging the Young Adult Divide

Building Banging First Pages

Business And Alternative - TBA

Defining Genre: What Are You Really Writing?

DYI - TBA

DYI: A Best-Selling Independent Author Tells All

DYI: Achieving Indie Excellence: A Roadmap

DYI: eBook Intervention Session

DYI: Straddling the line—The Micropress Method

DYI: The Why (and How) of Writing Graphic Novels

DYI: Writing and the Re-wired Reader

Fiction - TBA

Guidelines for Creating Blockbusters!

Hanky Panky: Writing The Erotic

How to Turn a Good Idea into a Great Story

How To Write Your Publishable Book in a Weekend

Make Your Story a Movie: Adapting Your Book or Idea for Hollywood

Marketing Before and After Publication

Non-Fiction - TBA

NovelCram: Building the Better Book

Outside Genre: How Story Trumps Convention

Plan Your Personal Path to Creative Success

Plotting for Maximum Punch

Save the Cat! Structure the Novel!

Sustaining Suspense: Page by Page

The Writing Mother: Making Time for Both

Three Pesky Questions That Strike Fear in the Hearts of Authors

Transformative Narrative in Non-fiction

Transformative Narrative: A Shamanic Approach to Story Structure

Weaving History Into Fiction

Workshop To Be Announced (Business/Alternative)

Writing Memoir for Market Part 1

Writing Memoir for Market Part 2

Writing Memoir/Biography – Make Them Care

Writing Personal Experience Stories That Sell

Writing Sensuous Prose

Your Creative Spirit: Write from the Heart

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