KILLER NASHVILLE 2008 SCHEDULE

FRIDAY AUGUST 15, 2008
Day 1/3

 REGISTRATION OPENS 8:00 AM
(Lobby)

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE OPENS
(Clydesdale Room)

8:30-9:50 am

Murders to Mummies: Selected Days in the Life of a Forensic Anthropologist
(Quarter Horse Room / Palomino Rooms)

 Hugh Berryman

10:00 –11:20 am

The Art of the Page Turner
(Quarter Horse Room)

 David J. Walker, P. J. Parrish
 Moderator: Beth Terrell

Things that go Boom in the Night:  A Writer’s Guide to Explosives
(Palomino Room)

 Bob Pollard
Special Agent, Tennessee State Bomb & Arson Section

11:30–1:00 pm

BREAK FOR LUNCH

AGENT / EDITOR PITCH SESSION 1
11:50 - 1:00
(See Pitch Schedule)
(Palomino Room - To schedule a pitch, contact us)

SALON 10

1:00-2:20 pm

Hospitality Lounge Opens at 1:30

Swinging Both Ways: Novel to Screenplay and Screenplay to Novel

 Bill Fitzhugh

Depth Charge: Using Subplots to Create Depth

 Chris Roerden, Jennie Bentley, Susan Whitfield
Moderator: Alana White

Write What You Know:  Medical and Legal Thrillers

 Ben Small, Scott Pearson, David J. Walker
Moderator / Panelist: Cathy Pickens

A Writer’s Guide to Arson

 Bob Pollard
Special Agent, Tennessee State Bomb & Arson Section

2:30-3:30 pm

Hospitality Lounge

POV & SHOW vs. TELL

 P. J. Parrish

The Art of Editing:  How to Make Your Good Book Great

 Adriann Ranta, Chris Roerden, Christina Wilburn, Lonnie Cruse
Moderator: Beth Terrell

Music in Mysteries

 Bill Fitzhugh, Bill Moody, Peggy Ehrhart
Moderator / Panelist: Don Bruns

Firearms 101

 Ernest Lancaster

4:00-5:20 pm

Hospitality Lounge Closes at 5:00

Start with a Punch, End with a Bang

 Lonnie Cruse, Jennie Bentley, Mary Saums
Moderator / Panelist: Chester Campbell

Lightning and the Lightning Bug:  Making the Most of Your Words

 Karen McCullough, Cathy Pickens
Moderator: Lynette Ingram

Crafting the Query & Synopsis:  An Agent's Perspective

 Adriann Ranta

We Have Ways of Making You Talk: The Art and Science of Interrogations

 Mike Breedlove
Special Agent, Tennessee Bureau of Investigations (TBI)

5:20-6:30 pm

 AGENT / EDITOR PITCH SESSION 2
(See Pitch Schedule)
(To schedule a pitch, contact us)

SOUTHEAST MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA (semwa)
MEETING & RECEPTION
6:00 - 7:00 Pm
Open meeting: SEMWA & Non-SEMWA members welcome.
 

Book Signing Session One
(Main Hallway - To schedule a book signing spot, contact us; to see a signing schedule, click here)

 Breakout Session: Chris Roerden
Don’t Murder Your Mystery, Don’t Sabotage Your Submission
(Quarter Horse Room - Not included in Basic Registration; this is an Add-On Event)

Crime Scene Open
(Mustang Room)

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE CLOSES (6:00)
(Clydesdale Room)

SATURDAY AUGUST 16, 2008
DAY 2/3

8:00 am

REGISTRATION OPENS
(Lobby)

CRIME SCENE OPEN
(Mustang Room)

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE OPENS
(Clydesdale Room)

8:30-9:50 am

Hospitality Lounge

Flesh to Bone: How to Get From Idea to First Draft

Cathy Pickens, Ben Small, Bill Moody, W. C. Hartline
Moderator/Panelist: David J. Walker

The Breakout Novel:  What is it and How Do I Write One?

Adriann Ranta, Gregg Hurwitz
Moderator: Nancy Sartor

Behind Closed Doors: Writing Effective Sex

Shannon Dauphin (as Gwen Masters), Maggie Toussaint, Carolyn McSparren
Moderator: PJ Parrish

Have another Cookie, Dear: A Primer of Poisons

Louis Kuykendall
Special Agent,
Tennessee Bureau of Investigations (TBI)

10:00-11:20 am

Hospitality Lounge Closes at 11:30

Sleuthing Through Time: Writing the Historical

Kathy Lynn Emerson

The Perfect Pitch

Maryglenn McCombs, Adriann Ranta

A Bestselling Writer Shares Tips for Success:  Crime Fiction to Comics to Cults

Gregg Hurwitz

Fugitive Apprehension

Louis Kuykendall
Special Agent,
Tennessee Bureau of Investigations (TBI)

11:30 – 1:00 pm

 AGENT / EDITOR PITCH SESSION 3
11:50 - 1:00
(See Pitch Schedule)
(To schedule a pitch, contact us)

BREAK FOR LUNCH

CRIME SCENE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING
(Mustang)

1:00-2:20 pm

Hospitality Lounge

Interview With Guest of Honor Bill Bass
(Salons 7-10)

Moderator: Clay Stafford

2:30-3:50 pm

Hospitality Lounge

Bill Bass Forensic Presentation
(Salons 7-10)

4:00-5:20 pm

Hospitality Lounge Closes at 5:00

From the Author’s Head to the Reader’s Hands: How Publishing Works
(Salons 7-10)

Gregg Hurwitz (Author)
Adriann Ranta (Agent, Anderson Literary Agency)
Maryglenn McCombs (Editor, Oceanview Publishing)
Janet Lee (Ingram Books, Distributor)
Robbie Bryan (Barnes & Noble Booksellers)

Moderator:  Clay Stafford

5:20-6:30 pm

AGENT / EDITOR PITCH SESSION 4
(See Pitch Schedule)
(To schedule a pitch, contact us)

Book Signing Session Two
(Main Hallway - To schedule a book signing spot, contact us; to see a signing schedule, click here)

Breakout Session: P. J. PARRISH
Okay, Now That I Know Everything...
(Quarter Horse Room - Not included in Basic Registration; this is an Add-On Event)

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE CLOSES (6:00)
(Clydesdale Room)

7:00 pm

Hospitality Lounge Closed

Guest of Honor Dinner with Bill Bass

SUNDAY AUGUST 17, 2008
DAY 3/3

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE OPENS (8:00)
(Clydesdale Room)

8:00-9:20 am

Hospitality Lounge

Writing Children’s and YA Books

Tracy Barrett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Jeanie Stewart, Kristin ODonnell Tubb
Moderator:  Clay Stafford

Clues and Red Herrings

Barbara Graham, Peggy Ehrhart
Moderator / Panelist: Phyllis Appleby

Structuring a Scene or Chapter

Carolyn McSparren, PJ Parrish, Mary Saums
Moderator / Panelist:

From Pitch to Published: Killer Nashville Success Stories

Scott Pearson, Margaret Fenton, Maryglenn McCombs
Moderator: Don Bruns

Getting it Right: What Law Enforcement Personnel Wish Every Writer Knew

Ernest Lancaster
former police officer

Ann Al-Urfali
Author / Judicial Commissioner / Magistrate
Williamson County

Dan Royse
Special Agent,
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI)

9:30-10:50 am

Hospitality Lounge

NO SESSION

Humor in Mysteries

Barbara Graham, Bill Fitzhugh,  Jennie Bentley
Moderator / Panelist: Don Bruns

Marketing Strategies: What Works

Robbie Bryan, Maryglenn McCombs, Chester Campbell
Moderator / Panelist: Clay Stafford

“Say it again, Sam.”
Effective Dialogue

Chris Roerden, Carolyn McSparren, Phyllis Appleby
Moderator / Panelist: Cathy Pickens

The Language of Gestures: Kinesiology and Micro-expressions

11:00-12:20 pm

Hospitality Lounge

Action Scenes & Violence

Steve Womack, Ben Small
Moderator: Lynette Ingram

What Do You Write: Cozy, PI Novel, Police Procedural, Thriller?

Don Bruns, Scott Pearson, Kathy Lynn Emerson
Moderator / Panelist: Mary Saums

How to Create an Effective Writer’s Website

Bret Haines / Baahaus Design

Finding Your Voice

Chris Roerden

It’s All In Your Head: The Psychology of the PI, the Amateur Sleuth, and the Villain

12:20-1:00

BREAK

Book Signing Session THREE (12:20-2:00)
(Main Hallway - To schedule a book signing spot, contact us; to see a signing schedule, click here)

1:00-2:00 pm

  Breakout Session: STEVEN WOMACK
If the Process of Writing is Such a Joy,
Why Does the Business of Writing Have to Suck So Badly?
(Quarter Horse Room - Not included in Basic Registration; this is an Add-On Event)

2:00

BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE CLOSES (2:00)
(Clydesdale Room)

Conference Ends