Winter Words Writing Conference. Connecticut.

If you think 2008 will be the year you start writing your project, why not end 2007 with a workshop to get you started?

Reminder: WINTER WORDS, a Day-Long Conference for Aspiring Writers

WHAT: Winter Words offers aspiring writers advice and expertise from more than 15 published novelists, nonfiction writers, memoirists, biographers and children's authors.

Author-panelists throughout the day will tackle topics ranging from the nuts and bolts of getting published to creating great dialogue and plots to earning your keep as a freelance writer. As a special feature, freelance book editors Marcela
Landres (formerly with Simon & Schuster) and Eileen Robinson (formerly with Scholastic) will review manuscripts submitted in advance.

WHEN: Saturday, December 1, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

WHERE: Fairfield Public Library, 1080 Old Post Rd., Fairfield CT 06824

WHO:
Tony Abbott, author of The Secrets of Droon series
Prill Boyle, author of Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women
James Campbell, author of The Ghost Mountain Boys
Da Chen, author of Brothers
Leslie Connor, author of Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel
Lucy Ferris, author of Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant
Lucy Hedrick, author of Get Organized in the Digital Age.
Linda Urbach Howard, author of Expecting Miracles
Marcela Landres, Editorial Consultant
William Martin, author of The Lost Constitution
Sara Nelson, Editor-in-Chief of Publisher's Weekly
Steve Otfinoski, author of Putting it in Writing
Karen E. Olson, author of Secondhand Smoke
Eileen Robinson, CEO, F1rstpages
Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown
Charles Slack, author of Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Jane Stern, author of Ambulance Girl
Logan Ward, author of See You in a Hundred Years

TO REGISTER: Call 203-256-3160; $50.

QUESTIONS: Contact Karen Ronald at (203) 256-3158 or kronald@fplct.org