WRITE FROM THE HEART 2004 WRITERS CONFERENCE

Idaho Writers' League Conference Schedule

Idaho Writers' League Conference Presenters

Marcia Preston

Publisher and editor of ByLine Magazine
Author of Perhaps She'll Die and the newly released Song of the Bones.
Nominated for a Macavity Award and a Barry Award for Best First Mystery of 2001.
Nominated for the 2001 Mary Higgins Clark Award.
Winner of the Oklahoma Writers' Federation's Best Book of Fiction for 2001.

Jane Kirkpatrick

Author, speaker, teacher, and mental health professional.
Author of two non-fiction books, A Simple Gift of Comfort and Homestead.
Author of three fiction series, The Dream Catcher Series (four books), The Kinship and Courage Series (three books), and The Tender Ties Historical Series (two books currently, the third coming in 2004).

Sunni Jeffers

Award winning novelist.
Sunni's Flowers for Victoria has received a number of awards including the Colorado Romance Writers 2003 Inspirational Award of Excellence
4th place in the Romance Writers Ink 2003 More Than Magic Contest Inspiration Book
the American Christian Romance Writers 2002 Long Romantic Contemporary Book of the Year.

Ken Rand

Science fiction, How-To, Short Stories.
He lectures at national, regional, and local writer conventions, high school writing classes, libraries, workshops, seminars, conferences.
His "I Am A Writer" seminar continues to receive rave reviews.
Has been the staff interviewer for Talebones Magazine since 1996, written 200 humor columns, published in the Seattle Times, Buffalo (NY) News, Monterey (CA) Herald, and Casper (WY) Star-Tribune.
50 published short stories, a dozen novels published by small and regional presses, and several nonfiction books, including The 10% Solution: Self-editing for the Modern Writer (Fairwood Press), Kaleidoscopes Made Semi-Easy (self-published), From Idea to Story in 90 Seconds: A Writer's Primer (unsold to date); Voices of Wonder: 20 Interviews in Fantasy and Science Fiction (coming soon from Wildside Press).

Kirby Jonas

Western writer, artist, songwriter, and firefighter. Kirby has agreed to be a part of our 2004 conference. He spoke at the 2003 conference in Burley and was such a hit that we immediately invited him to come to the 2004 conference.
First published in 1994 with Season of the Vigilante Book I Kirby now has seven published books.
Kirby's most recent book, The Devil's Blood, came out in 2002.
Kirby is currently working on three books, including Yaqui Gold with Clint Walker, star of the TV Western Cheyenne.

Christine Moore

A freelance writer and editor, and a frequent presenter at regional writer's conferences. She has taught writing to students ranging from 2nd-graders to Elderhostel-ers, including a popular adult course on "Writing for Children." Chris writes for both adults and children--fiction, humor, articles, and promotional materials, several of which have received awards from state and national organizations. Her current book, Writing: A Crash Course, offers an unintimidating, hands-on guide to the writing world in a lighthearted style and workbook format. Chris resides in Coeur d'Alene.

Anna Goodwin

A psychotherapist, lecturer, writer, and gardener. She has been in the field of psychotherapy for 25 years starting in Maryland, has worked in private practice and as an associate professor at Montana State University and as an adjunct professor at the University of Idaho. In her private practice, she worked with several clients who sought help with "writer's block."
Anna has conducted many national and state workshops during the last 10 years and has lectured at psychological conferences. Topics include creativity, stress reduction, therapeutic story telling and writing, innovative approaches to working with children, and sandplay therapy. All workshops contain an experiential component.
She has coauthored a well-received textbook on sandplay therapy published by W. W. Norton in January, 2000.
At present she is writing two books, one based on a true story of a young adult with bulimia who is abducted and eventually finds a way to escape and heal, the other is a mystery novel of a psychologist falsely accused of implanting false memories in a client.

Larry Telles

Worked for Pacific Bell in the Bay Area of California for 30 years. During the last 16 years at Bell he taught telecommunications and computer networking. He worked for ITT Technical Institute in California and Spokane after moving here 5 years ago. At ITT he taught Project Management, Computer Networking and Multimedia. He is a published author and illustrator.
Larry is a member of the SCBWI and IWL. He is 1st vice-president at the Coeur d'Alene chapter of the Idaho Writer's League. His main duty is co-editing the chapter's newsletter, the Lakegazette. His other activities include teaching 3-four session classes a quarter at North Idaho College Workforce Center in Post Falls, photography, cartooning, and collecting memorabilia from the silent film era. Larry lives in Dalton Garden's with his wife Margaret.

Kitty Fleischman

Graduated from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan with a degree in elementary education, and taught junior high school for five years in Michigan and several years in Alaska. She began working for the twice-weekly Nome Nugget, and in 1980 Kitty took a job in Anchorage editing the 56,000 circulation Great Lander, a weekly Alaskan/shopper.
After moving to Boise, she took a job at The Idaho Weekly Business Reporter. A months later, she and three others left and started The Idaho Business Review in 1984. She owned and ran that with a partner until they sold it in 1999. She continued to work for the company that purchased the Business Review for two years.
Kitty started IDAHO Magazine in late summer of 2001. They are now more than halfway through their third year.
In September 2002, she received an opportunity to work with Velma Morrison on her memoirs, and recently completed her (and Velma's) first book, The Bluebird Will Sing Tomorrow. It is available in limited circulation, and has received rave reviews from all seven people who have read it.
She grew up as the only daughter in a family that also included seven sons. Kitty is happily married to Gerry Fleischman, an engineer with the State of Idaho, and has two grown children and eight grandchildren. When not working, she am most likely to be out playing with cars.

Beverly Green Cabbage

Was born in, and grew up just outside of, Sandpoint, Idaho. After high school, she attended Kinman Business University in Spokane, Washington, and obtained a degree in Secretarial Science. After graduation, Bev married her husband, Patrick Cabbage, and went to work as a secretary/bookkeeper. With the arrival of their first daughter, she decided that, if possible, she wanted to stay at home full-time. Bev has never regretted that decision.
It was at that point that the opportunity was presented to her to proofread her first book. Since then she has proofread and edited many short stories, technical articles, and books. This plan has allowed her to work from home and also stay abreast of current literary offerings while rearing herr five children. A good life!

Noah Buntain

Freelance writer and editor. He grew up in the Midwest and graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in English Literature before moving to Coeur d'Alene in 2002.
Noah serves as an officer for the Coeur d'Alene chapter of the Idaho Writer's League and co-edited the chapter's 2003 publication of Kaleidoscope: A Collection of Tantalizing Tales.

Robin Valaitis Heflin

is a freelance writer who writes regularly for the North Idaho edition of the Spokesman Review and has sold articles to Northwest Woman and Imagine magazines. She is a former staff writer for the Antelope Valley Press and the Antelope Valley Daily Ledger Gazette in Lancaster, California.
During the course of her 23-year communications career she estimates she has interviewed thousands of people. Besides writing feature articles, she loves to write fiction. She self-published a novel, The Messenger in 1999, has won several fiction writing awards and recently sold a short story to Good Housekeeping.

Barbara Rostad

is a versatile writer with degrees in journalism and sociology at universities in Washington, Idaho and California. An IWL member since 2000, she has published poems, articles and edited a cross-country ski book for the visually and mobility impaired. She is famous for her haiku and her ability to teach even the most inept how to create works of beauty.

Updated: May 30, 2004