2009 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (TENTATIVE)
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009

8:00 -8:50 am Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet – in the Alcove of the WoodStone Grill at the Grand Lodge

8:50-8:55 am Welcome by Barbara McCutcheon Crawford, Conference Coordinator- in main conference room

9:00-9:50 am Agent Editor Panel - in main conference room

9:55-11:55 am Donald Maass – Putting Fire in Your Fiction

12:00-1:30 pm The Sandy Awards Luncheon with Keynote Speaker, William Bernhardt
in conference room set up as banquet/buffet
1:40-3:40 pm Lisa Rector- Fixing That Sagging Middle

3:45 -4:45 pm William Bernhardt Presentation



SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2009 (called READERS IN THE ROCKIES)- all in Grand Lodge Conference Room

8:30 - 9:15 am Registration and Hot Breakfast Buffet in WoodStone Grill Alcove

9:20 - 9:30 am Welcome by Barbara Crawford, Conference Coordinator and moderator

9:30 - 10:15 am Tina Ann Forkner

10:20 - 11:05 am R.R. Wright

11:10 - 11:55 am William Bernhardt, Keynote

11:55 am - 1:55 pm Lunch on your own in beautiful Mountaineer Square (See list of restaurants)

1:55 - 3:00 pm Pie in the Sky Dessert Reception and Book Signing

3:00 - 3:45 pm Aryn Kyle

3:50 – 4:35 pm - First Pages Reading with Agents and Editors

8:00 pm Open Reading at Trackers in Mountaineer Square with a cash bar



SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009

8:00-8:30 am Hot Breakfast Buffet Breakfast in WoodStone Grill Alcove

8:35-9:35 am Agent and Editor Presentation Breakout Sessions

9:40-11:40 pm Aryn Kyle – Manuscript Critique Workshop

11:45-12:45 pm Tina Ann Forkner – Balancing the Purity and Integrity of Your Work with Commercial Success