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Idaho Writers' League Conference Presenters
The following are our currently scheduled presenters for the 2007 conference. We are working with other
top individuals in the writing industry to speak to us and conduct workshops. Click on the names to see
their websites.
Agent: Northern Lights Literary Agency
Sammie is a writer, editor, and agent with experience in publishing houses including Lippincott and Prentice Hall. She has edited many fiction and nonfiction works. Her agency deals with women's fiction, romance, mystery, suspence, and historical fiction. Some of the nonfiction areas they work with are health, biography, psychology, self-help, how-to, parenting, new age, medical, and business/technical. They do not accept children's books, poetry, erotica, fantasy, or horror.
Individual Appointments will be accepted if signed up before September 20, 2007
Mrs. Justesen will accept a proposal and first chapter at the conference. She will consider unpublished authors. Fee for an appointment to meet with Sammie is $15.00.
Publisher from Ink and Paper, Inc
David came to the Boise conference last year and took pitches. He accepted several from our IWL members and two will be published just before the conference, Angie Abderhalden and Chris Moore. David will also have a workshop with Angie on how the process went from her pitch at last year's conference to her published book at this year's conference.
Workshop 1: How to pitch your ideas. (With Angie Abderhalden)
Will accept pitches on Saturday. Fee is $15.00.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Publisher from Ink and Paper, Inc
Cameron is unable to attend. We apologize to those who hoped to meet with him.
Owners of Books In Motion
The Spokane, WA based company produces audiobooks in CD, MP3 and cassette format for rent. They offer over seven-hundred titles in a variety of popular categories. Audiobooks are available from the company or through rental locations across the U.S. They'll explain the process of getting books on tape and answer any questions you have. You'll find some New York Times bestselling authors dealing with Books in Motion, including Christine Feehan, Terry Brooks, J. A. Jance, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Former Pocatello Chapter author Kirby Jonas is another Books in Motion author.
Workshop 1: Learn about the Audiobook industry.
Freelance Writer and Children's Author
Kelly is a full-time free-lance writer specializing in quirky, well researched children's nonfiction for readers age nine and up. She has written nearly 1,600 articles and reviews for dozens of publications and more than fifteen books, including I Bought a Baby Chicken (Boyds Mills Press), Look What You Can Make with Craft Sticks (Boyds Mills Press), Dinosaur Mummies (Darby Creek Publishing), Albino Animals (Darby Creek Publishing), Wild Dogs (Darby Creek Publishing), Tales of the Cryptids (Darby Creek Publishing), Mysteries of the Mummy Kids (Darby Creek Publishing), and The Random House Dinosaur Travel Guide (Random House). Her work regularly appears in Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market published annually by Writer's Digest Books and she is an enthusiastic presenter at schools and conferences.
Workshop 1: How to Write Non-fiction for Kids Without Putting Them To Sleep
Worksoph 2: Building a Buzz--Marketing
Carrie Stuart Parks is known nationally for speaking and teaching law enforcement agencies on forensic drawings. She has worked for the North Idaho Regional Crime Lab and has received numerous national awards for training excellence including 1st runner up for Law Enforcement Trainer of the Year from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, GA.
Carrie is the author of three books on drawing and and interactive DVD and workbook set on interviewing. Her agency, Stuart Parks Forensic Associates, are the leading instructors of Composite and Forensic Art Classes. They provide instruction and certification in composit and forensic art to law enforcement agencies throughout the US, including the FBI and Secret Service. Her class will be on deception where she'll tell you what to look for in language, facial features and body language when someone is being deceptive. An excellent class for someone to teach us to write knowledgeably about our lying characters. The dirty rats!
Workshop 1: Deception
Nikki is an award-winning author of women's fiction, essays, poetry, and magazine articles whose work has been published in the United States and Canada. She has won several national awards, including the American Christian Fiction Book of the Year for Women's Fiction, and the Beacon Award. Her book, The Winds of Sonoma was named One of the Top 20 Books of the Year by Christianbook.com. Nikki is also the recipient of the 2007 Excellence in Media Silver Angel Award, the Jessie Cameron Alison Writer of the Year Award. She is a member of the Idaho Writers League, American Christian Fiction Writers, and Romance Writers of America.
Workshop 1: The seven secrets to writing a successful novel.
Boots is really Roy Reynolds who was born and raised on the ranches in Osage county, Oklahoma. He's been on, over and around horses all his life. His career began at the age of eight as a brush-track jockey riding matched races in Oklahoma. From there he graduated to the race tracks of Riudoso and Raton, New Mexico. He ventured into rodeo to try his luck with bareback broncs, calf-roping and a little clowning. After taking too many hard falls too often and winning too seldom, it was back to ranching in Wyoming and Texas. In the early 70's Boots ended up in Hope, Idaho where he now resides with his wife Becky.
His pen and ink cartoons have appeared in such magazines as Western Horseman, ProRodeo Sports News, Horse and Horseman, Horse and Rider, Outdoor Life, Bugle Magazine and more. He is the #1 bestselling artist for Leanin' Tree cards. He's a cowboy artist who wrote a cookbook which will be out before the conference. He also writes humor a humor column for the River Journal.
He has received the Western Cartoonist of the Year Award (1996) from the Academy of Western Artists, the Trumble Family Award, the Western Horseman Award given by the Cowboy Cartoonists International, and the Penny Onstott Memorial Award from the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Artists Association.
Workshop 1: If I Can Write a Book You Can Write a Book
Journalism instructor and adviser for the North Idaho College award winning Sentinel. He has a business column in the Spokesman-Review and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Community College Journalism Association. Rosdahl has been an instructor and adviser at NIC for 20 years. He was named an NIC Instructor of the Year in 2003 and has previously received the Noel Ross Strader award for supporting press freedom.
Rosdahl earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Montana, where he was editor of the school newspaper and worked full time for the newspaper in Missoula.
During the Vietnam War, he did public relations for the U.S. Coast Guard in San Francisco and Chicago in addition to working as a sports reporter in those cities. He worked for 10 years as a sports editor for a chain of Seattle suburban newspapers while earning his master's degree in communications from the University of Washington.
Workshop 1: Tighten Your Writing; New Style Tips
Workshop 2: Interviewing Tips of the Trade
Wendy Carroll
Story Analyst
Wendy worked in the screenwriting and editing business for many years, including a 13 year stint with Walt Disney Pictures. She left Hollywood after the last major earthquake and now teaches screenwriting throughout the United States to authors and writers who wish to see their stories adapted to the screen.
She is a professional story analyst/producer, script doctor, published writer, coordinator of the Film in Arizona Screenwriting Competition, and is an adjunct faculty member of the Scottsdale Community College-Film & TV department. She has written for Markee Magazine
Workshop 1: Differences and Similarities between Novel and Screenplays. How to adapt novels into screenplays and why some novels make good films and some don't.
Workshop 2: Character development, story structure
Bonnie Hamre: “I've never been disappointed by a Bonnie Hamre book,” said a reviewer and fans of multi-published author of contemporary, historical and paranormal fiction agree. Bonnie's character-driven novels strike a chord with readers who enjoy tightly plotted and deeply emotional journeys with fitting, satisfying endings.
Born and raised abroad, Bonnie combines her love of travel and adventure with a soft, romantic heart, all combining to fuel her imagination as she writes her next book. Her workshops on various writing issues are always popular, educational and entertaining. In addition to her fiction writing, Bonnie also produces South America for Visitors, an online travel site for About.com.
Workshop 1: How to fix a sagging middle
This workshop addresses the problem areas of many tales: a great beginning, a sagging middle and a flat ending.
With tips, techniques and hands-on exercises, the workshop covers plotting styles, pacing, escalating conflict, the “black moment” and spot-on conclusions.
Sherri was born on the edge of a canyon in Twin Falls and grew up on a chinchilla ranch in Mountain Home. She has written fiction since she could hold a pencil, and is the winner of numerous awards, including first place in the 2004 IWL Novel Contest and third in Idaho Magazine's 2005 fiction contest. Her love of history and writing research led her to Civil War reenacting. She is a member of the Society of Civil War Surgeons and is currently president of Twin Falls Chapter, Idaho Writers' League. A medical coder by day and an amateur astrologer for fun, her life's work is writing historical novels.
Sherri's Presentations:
Workshop 1: Living History: Writing Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is gaining in popularity, as readers look to the past to make sense of the present. Is it the right genre for you? Sherri will discuss the special problems and rewards of writing historical fiction, including choosing your era, research, writing, and marketing.
Workshop 2: All In the Stars: Using Astrology to Craft Realistic Characters
You don't need to believe in astrology to take advantage of it! The twelve personality archetypes first identified by the ancient Greeks can help you find compatible traits, both good and bad, for your characters. Sherri will share methods of choosing the right signs for your characters and give tips for writers based on their own sun signs.
Cathy Neet
Teacher and long time writer is going to teach you how to stay organized while you write your novel, short story or free-lance. Take this hour long workshop to stay sane and in control of your writing area while you rush to meet that deadline.
Workshop 1: Stay organized while you write.
Angie Abderhalden
Angela has been a serious writer for fifteen years. Her first book, Questionable Ethics- A Mel Addison Mystery, will be published in September 2007. The second in the series will be published in 2008. She is currently working on another cozy mystery series and a contemporary romance. She is also newsletter editor of two Boise area writing groups, the Caldwell Chapter of the IWL and Partners in Crime, which is a chapter of Sisters in Crime, a national mystery writers group. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America. She lives in Meridian Idaho with her husband, two kids and a rascally beagle named Kaya.
Workshop 1: How to pitch your ideas. (With David Cowsert)
Workshop 2: How to write mysteries.
Jonathan Johnson's second collection of poems, In the Land We Imagined Ourselves http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2007. His first collection, Mastodon, 80% Complete http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/, was published in 2001 by Carnegie Mellon. His poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry and numerous other anthologies, as well as recent issues of Southern Review, Ploughshares, North American Review, and The Prairie Schooner. Johnson is also the author of a memoir, Hannah and the Mountain: Notes Toward a Wilderness Fatherhood http://unp.unl.edu/bookinfo/4637.html, which was published in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press in their American Lives Series. He is the Director of the Inland Northwest Center for Writers, the MFA program at Eastern Washington University. Johnson spends as much time as he can in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and at the secluded, log cabin he and his wife built on the Johnson Family Farm in northern Idaho.
Workshop 1: Writing poetry.
Idaho Writer's League Writer of the Year, Mona Leeson Vanek brings expertise to her workshop that she learned while creating "Access The World -- And Write Your Way to $$$," her e-mail based writing course. Vanek demonstrates the techniques of learning to use writing resources on the Internet and e-mail effectively in your writing career.
Since 2002, Vanek, a writing consultant, instructor and experienced freelancer, has guided hundreds of writers in successfully using the Internet and e-mail to advance their careers. Her workshop explains how to locate hundreds of free online educational resources, editors, agents, including publishers, POD venues, and paying markets in many genres. Writing-related insider information, plus Do's and Don't's, help you avoid pitfalls, become your editor's favorite freelancer, and achieve your writing goals.
Vanek, is author of Behind These Mountains. Her publishing credits include nine regional newspapers and more than a dozen magazines, such as Writer's Digest, Mother Earth News, Montana Magazine, Family Motor Coaching, FreelanceSuccess.com, Merginet.com, and Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul.
Workshop 1: Using the Internet and E-mail for Writing Success
Beverly Lauderdale
Beverly graduated from Simpson College (Iowa) and received her master's degree from Holy Names University (California). She has taught at the junior high and college level, has instructed "Craft of Writing" classes for Mount Diablo Adult Education, and has led seminars and workshops. In love with writing since she could hold a pencil, she has published hundreds of articles (BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL & LEISURE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE) and short stories (ESSENCE, THEMA, L.A. WEST, TIMBER CREEK REVIEW). In March 2006, Genesis Press released her second novel, NOTES WHEN SUMMER ENDS, which deals with women's friendships.
Workshop 1: Travel Writing
Workshop 2: Writing for Magazines
For more information, contact Sandy Smith at sandy@netw.com (208-263-7207)
or Sherry Ramsey at Lramsey@supersat2.net (208-290-8749).
Updated: September 11, 2007
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