Session Saturday, July 21, 2007 2:30 pm EST
The Busy Author's Guide to Writing on the Run

Linda & Allen Anderson are best-selling authors, writing instructors, and inspirational speakers. They established Writing on the Run to help people find time and space for writing. The Writer’s Digest E-Newsletter recommends the Andersons’ Web site. In 1996, the Andersons founded the Angel Animals Network to raise awareness of the life enrichment and health benefits people receive from their relationships animals. Their newest book about animal rescue won the American Society of Journalists and Authors Award for Outstanding Book Award. The 2006 Writer’s Market published the Andersons’ article on finding time and space to write.

Allen and Linda Anderson publish two online newsletters, which reach over 20,000 readers in 50 states and 42 countries. They write newspaper and magazine columns and articles and sponsor writing contests at their Web sites.The Andersons are writing instructors at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. They have facilitated writing workshops across the United States and Canada as well as in Great Britain, Ireland, Mexico, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and West Africa. For more information visit: http://www.writingontherun.com

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Session Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:00 pm EST
From Book Signing to Best Seller: An Insider's Guide to Conducting a Successful Low-Cost Book Signing Tour

Jo Condrill is coauthor of the best-selling book, 101 Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills Instantly which you can read more about at http:www.goalminds.com/101.html. Her Take Charge of Your Life: Dare to Pursue Your Dreams book has been translated into Spanish and Indonesian. Jo provided many seminars on the proven process that she describes in this book. For more information, visit: http://www.goalminds.com or contact condrill (at) goalminds.com.

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Session Saturday, July 21, 2007 4:00 pm EST
How to Set up Your Own Small Publishing Company

Betty Dobson is an award-winning Canadian writer whose short fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in several anthologies and print and online journals, including Apollo's Lyre, Book Lover's Haven, Brady Magazine, Eros & Rust, Jerry Jazz Musician, Sol Magazine, and Toasted Cheese. As the owner of InkSpotter Publishing, she is currently preparing three books for publication: the multi-author anthologies Holiday Writes and Backless, Strapless & Slit to the Throat; and Family Lines, an expanded version of her defunct genealogy column. She published her collected poetry, Paper Wings, in 2006.

She believes that there are no absolute blacks and whites in this world. She's always on the lookout for various shades of gray-–and any other colors of the rainbow lingering around the horizon. Life has its quirks; whenever she can explore them, question them, and write about them, she will. Give her a mystery, and she's like a pit bull as she explores passageways and labyrinths in her search for resolution. Detours are to be explored; getting there (and writing about it) is half the fun. You can learn more about her at http://inkspotter.com

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Session Saturday, July 21, 2007 11:30 am EST
How to Make Your Book an AMAZON.com Best Seller

Kathleen is a highly results oriented business advisor who works with speakers, trainers, consultants, entrepreneurs and authors. Her unique Street Smarts Marketing Series programs are designed to help you achieve the business results you desire in the most efficient, cost-effective way possible.

Kathleen is a past president of the National Speakers Association, Utah Chapter; past Vice Chair and Marketing Chair for the Central Region Council for the Department of Workforce – Utah; she has received the leadership award from Toastmasters International and was recognized as a top rated business owner in 2004 by the Governor of the State of Utah.

She has written and published dozens of books and information products including 101 Ways to Get Your Foot in the Door; Street Smarts Marketing and Promotions; Street Smarts Making Money with the Internet; and her most recent Amazon.com bestselling book, The Law of Achievement.

Kathleen is equally confident, competent and comfortable mentoring one-on-one to success minded professionals as she is presenting a highly inspirational keynote speech to thousands in an audience. For more information, visit: www.turningpointpresents.com or www.StreetSmartsMarketing.com

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Session Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:00 pm EST
How to Use the Internet to Promote Your Book

Donna Gunter, author of Get More Clients Online: How to Get 95% of Your Clients from Internet Marketing, and founder of OnlineBizU.com, is an Internet Business Coach and Online Business Manager who helps overwhelmed independent service professionals automate their businesses, leverage their expertise online, and implement Internet marketing strategies that work for service businesses.

Donna opened her first online business as an online business manager/virtual assistant in 1999 and successfully built this virtual company from her small, rural, East Texas hometown using only connections made online and Internet marketing strategies. From 2000-2004 she trained women to create businesses as Virtual Assistants for a VA training company while also running her own business.

After coaching and training virtual assistants for several years, she made the leap into professional business coaching and unveiled her coaching company in 2003, which has now been transformed into a membership website, Online Biz University.

Donna holds a B.S. in Communication Disorders from Lamar University and a M.Ed. in Student Personnel Services (Higher Education Administration) from the University of South Carolina.

For more information about the Online Biz University visit www.OnlineBizU.com and to learn how to get 95% of your clients online visit www.getmoreclientsonline.net.

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Session Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:30 pm EST
Let the Universe be Your Guide - Using the Laws of Attraction to Get Your Book Written and Published and So Much More!

Marilyn Jenett - Renowned prosperity mentor with an international following, an accomplished business woman and owner of a company that served the corporate arena for 20 years. Her achievements were the result of the prosperity principles she now teaches in her Feel Free to Prosper program. Her fascinating memoir, Feel Free to Prosper: An Entrepreneurial Memoir of Synchronicity and Guidance, was written on her network forum, attracted an agent, over 8,000 views, hundreds of rave reviews, and will soon be published. It can still be found on the forum until the book’s release. The story was not intended to be a book. The Universe obviously had different plans.

Marilyn founded the Feel Free to Prosper program to mentor and teach others to become aligned with Universal laws and accept their right to prosper. Her students, from around the globe and from all walks of life, are enjoying remarkable success applying her lessons and participating in her private and group sessions, teleclasses and audio programs. Visit her website at www.FeelFreetoProsper.com and her network forum at http://prosper-network.ryze.com.

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Session Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:00 pm EST
What to Expect When Working With a Literary Agent

Sharlene Martin - In 2003, Sharlene founded Martin Literary Management located in Los Angeles, CA. Her remarkable rise in the publishing industry is demonstrated by a rapidly growing list of over 60 non-fiction sales to such renowned major publishers as Crown, Penguin Putnam, Rodale, St. Martin’s, McGraw Hill, Ballantine, Harper Collins, Wiley and Warner as well as a host of boutique and independent publishers for specialized genre books.

Her client's book "You'll Never Nanny In This Town Again" hit the New York Times and LA Times Bestseller lists in 2006 and was recently optioned to 20th Century Fox TV for development as a sitcom. Several of her authors have had their books boosted as serial reprints in publications as prestigious as Readers' Digest, People Magazine, and the London Times. In the past year alone, her clients have made appearances on The Today Show, Oprah, The View, Fox and Friends, Good Morning America, Martha Stewart, The Apprentice, 20/20, Discovery Channel, Court TV, Inside Edition, The 700 Club, Donny Deutsch and Fox News, to name just a few.

With a strong entertainment industry background, Sharlene is always looking for narrative non-fiction that has high adaptability to film and television. She particularly enjoys unique memoirs (that can be corroborated!), celebrity related books, prescriptive books with writers who have already developed their platforms and business books that have an entrepreneurial twist.

Publishers, editors and writers who deal with her consistently express their joy in working with someone who is such an avid fan of good writing and an enthusiastic guardian and representative of her clients’ work. She employs this personal touch to all of her business relationships and credits it with her proven record of success at selling books in a wide range of non-fiction genres.

Considerate Literary Management for the 21st Century is her motto and she tries to honor that daily in her business relationships. For more about MLM, see www.MartinLiteraryManagement.com

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Session Friday, July 20, 2007 2:30 pm EST
Publishing Options – Which One Is Right For YOU

Sheri McConnell is the President and Founder of the National Association of Women Writers and the Association of Web Entrepreneurs. She teaches women writers and entrepreneurs how to discover, create, and profit from their intellectual knowledge. She is an entrepreneur, publisher, author, writer, and coach. She has a Masters of Arts in Organizational Management and a Bachelors in Social Work.

Her books include Women On Writing-From Inspiration to Publication, Feminine Writes-Women, Writing, and Wisdom, The Woman’s Book of Powerful Quotations, and Over 100 FAQs Women Asked About Writing. She also offers a complete home study course for anyone wanting to write a book at www.writeyourbook.org. Visit www.sherimcconnell.com to see all of Sheri’s companies and to access her free article archive. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband and their four children. For more information visit: www.NAWW.org

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Session Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:30 pm EST
So You Want to Write a Book!

Ann McIndoo - Using a unique process she has created, Ann helped Authors produce more than 90 book in the last 28 months. She is a writer, speaker and Author's Coach who loves helping professionals write their book and create products.

Known to her friends and clients as "Can Do" McIndoo, Ann has been involved in training, writing and creating learning materials since 1985. When PCs arrived on the scene, Ann started a computer training company, specializing in teaching lawyers and legal secretaries how to use computers. Now, many years later, having taught over 15,000 users in 250 companies in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, Ann has taken training and writing to a new level and is now teaching others how to write their own book! For more information, visit: www.SoYouWantToWrite.com

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Session Friday, July 20, 2007 12:00 pm EST
Publishing Books - The New Book Model

Dan Poynter - In 1969 Dan Poynter fell into publishing. He spent eight years researching a labor of love. Realizing no publisher would be interested in a technical treatise on the parachute, he went directly to a printer and "self- published." The orders poured in and he suddenly found he was a publisher himself.

For many years, Dan ran Para Publishing all by himself. In fact, he was often billed as the world's largest one-person publishing company. As a one-man show, an author/publisher who handled all the writing, publishing and promotion, office management and shipping himself, Dan is in the best position to advise a first time self-publishing author who is on a limited budget. Today, Dan has staff, a number of products and services (books, reports, tapes, disks, seminars, etc.) and a large suite of offices with a 360 view of the mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Dan's work for publishing was recognized by the Publishers Marketing Association when they gave him the Benjamin Franklin Award. He was given the Irwin Award for the best electronic promotion campaign by the Book Publicists of Southern California. He is a past vice-president of PMA.

Dan Poynter's seminars have been featured on CNN, his books have been pictured in The Wall Street Journal, and his story has been told in U.S. News & World Report. The media comes to him because he is the leading authority on book marketing, promoting and distributing. Dan's credits include: Author of 120+ books, Certified Speaking Professional, Author of Information Products on Book Writing/Publishing/Promoting, Parachutes/Skydiving, Expert Witness & Aging Cats. For more information, visit: http://ParaPublishing.com

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Session Thursday, July 19, 2007 5:00 pm EST
Partnership Publishing - How and when to use the Combined Forces of Publisher and Author to Produce Your Next Book

Linda F. Radke - Every book, no matter how well written, is likely to languish on the shelf unsold without a comprehensive and creative publishing and marketing plan in place to support it. Linda F. Radke is available to help you, whether you’d like some guidance at the outset of the writing process or would like to know what to do now that you’ve completed your manuscript. Linda will bring to your project more than 20 years of award-winning publishing and book publicity experience.

Ready to get published? Choose from a variety of methods, including the popular “partnership publishing” in which she will share with you in the costs and associated risks of bringing your book to the reading public. Linda is one of the nation’s leading consultants in the areas of book production, marketing, publicity, and distribution.

The author of The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing (a Writer's Digest Book Club selection) and Promote Like a Pro: Small Budget, Big Show (a Doubleday Executive Program Book Club selection), Linda was recently named "Book Marketer of the Year" by Book Publicists of Southern California. For more information, visit: www.FiveStarPublications.com

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Session Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:00 am EST
Copywriting Secrets Every Author Needs to Know

Rosalind Sedacca, CCT is an award-winning copywriter, professional speaker, author and certified corporate trainer specializing in communication and relationship issues at home and in the workplace. Her background includes more than twenty years of experience in marketing, advertising and public relations. She has worked with companies large and small throughout the United States as well as individual entrepreneurs, professional speakers,
therapists and coaches to help build their businesses. Rosalind has worked in every medium and understands the subtleties of adapting copy to print, TV, radio and internet formats.

She has also facilitated workshops and seminars on creating “conscious” relationships for both singles and couples. Recently Rosalind used her copywriting expertise in the launch of her new digital guidebook for divorcing parents titled, HOW DO I TELL THE KIDS ABOUT THE DIVORCE?, a unique “Create-a-Storybook”™ guide based on her own life experience. Through the process she has uncovered many copywriting secrets for authors on creating websites, writing sales pages, generating public relations attention, acquiring testimonial endorsements and more. Rosalind will be sharing many of these insights in her presentation, Copywriting Secrets Every Author Needs to Know. For more information, visit: www.HowDoITelltheKidsabouttheDivorce.com

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Session Friday, July 20, 2007 1:30 pm EST
How to Leverage Your Contacts to Promote Your Book

Lynn Waymon is CEO of Contacts Count, the nationwide training and consulting firm that specializes in business and professional networking. With Anne Baber, she co-authored her 5th book, Make your Contacts Count (AMACOM, 2007). She and Anne work with clients such as Corning, Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen, Deloitte Touche, Department of State, the National Geographic Society, and Georgetown University to give their employees state-of-the-art networking skills that impact the bottom line and advance careers.

Contacts Count trains and certifies free-lancers to deliver their keynotes and workshops. Lynne also provides one-on-one coaching on how to create, cultivate, and capitalize on networking opportunities. Lynne is the recipient of the highest award given by the National Capital Speakers Association for platform excellence and contribution to the field of speaking. She resides in Silver Spring, MD and Chester, Nova Scotia. Read more about Lynn at www.ContactsCount.com or www.FireProofYourCareer.com

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Session Friday, July 20, 2007 3:30 pm EST
Are you about to Be Published? Insider "Secrets" to Get into Major Publishing Houses and Into the Hands of Your Readers!

Kim Weiss has been in the publishing business since 1994. Prior to her position as Director of Communications for HCI Books (Health Communications, Inc.), she ran her own public relations firm in Boca Raton, FL, called WW Communications, Inc. where she created pr campaigns for individuals, corporations and municipalities. She has been with HCI during the makings of some phenomenal bestsellers such as the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, A Child Called “It’, What the Bleep Do We Know?! and more. At HCI, Kim also headed up her own imprint, Simcha Press.

She has also been published in the following story collections: Chicken Soup for the Shopper’s Soul, Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Cats and Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul. Recently, in addition to her post as HCI, Kim has formed a consulting/coaching service for authors, Kim Weiss Publishing Services where she works with both aspiring and accomplished authors. Kim offers “an insider’s look at publishing your book.” In addition to her love of books, Kim has a passion for music which she writes and performs. Visit http://www.kimweisspr.com for more information.

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Session Friday, July 20, 2007 4:30 pm EST
The Art and Science of Working with a Co-Author and Writing Children's Books

Debra Shively Welch is the author of three books: A Very Special Child, a well-received children’s book, Christopher Bullfrog Catcher, written by her son at eleven years of age, and scribed by Debra, who also wrote its introduction, and Jesus Gandhi Oma Mae Adams, Debra’s first novel, co-authored with Linda Lee Greene. For more information about Debra, visit: www.debrashiveleywelch.net

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