RENDEZVOUS UPDATE. Don t Miss This Opportunity to Further Your Writing Career with Networking that Makes a Difference... PITCH TO TOP LITERARY AGENTS

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1 RENDEZVOUS UPDATE IDAHO WRITERS & READERS RENDEZVOUS MAY 1-3, 2014 BOISE CENTRE Newsletter Don t Miss This Opportunity to Further Your Writing Career with Networking that Makes a Difference... PITCH TO TOP LITERARY AGENTS Nephele Tempest, Pooja Menon, Ron Levine IWG Board DINE WITH AUTHORS, AGENTS, & PRESENTERS Doug Copsey Joanne Pence Sherry Briscoe Elaine Ambrose Merilee Marsh Christy Hovey Gretchen Mullins A. K. Turner Bruce DeLaney Elaine Ambrose, Elizabeth Day, Stacy Ennis, Christy Hovey, Pooja Menon Daniel Orozco, Joanne Pence, Ron Powers, Jennifer Sander, Nephele Tempest, Sarah Tregay EVALUATE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WITH PROFESSIONAL EDITORS Elizabeth Day, Stacy Ennis CONSULT WITH COVER AND DESIGN ARTISTS Sarah Tregay REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN! click here to register!

2 Big Thanks to Our 2014 Rendezvous Sponsors This year the Rendezvous has been blessed once again with great sponsors. The Idaho Humanities Council awarded us a grant of $2,000. The Boise City Department of Arts and History matched that with $2,000 of their own. These two fine organizations have both supported all three Rendezvous events. Publisher Elaine Ambrose of Mill Park Publishing has likewise given her generous support the past three years, in addition to being a founding member of our Board of Directors. And Rediscovered Books owner, Bruce Delaney, is continuing his support as our official bookseller for the Rendezvous, in addition to serving as a Consulting Member of our board. Our heartfelt thanks go out to each of these amazing sponsors for signing on for another year of the Rendezvous. We encourage you all to forward your thanks to them as well, via Facebook, , or in person, whenever possible. We couldn t do it without them. Speakers Galore! Pulitzer Prize winning author RON POWERS has agreed to be one of our keynote presenters at the 2014 Rendezvous. Known as the second most famous author from Hannibal, MO, he is perhaps best known for his two definitive biographies of Mark Twain, Dangerous Water, A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and Mark Twain, A Life. He also co-authored the popular World War II story of Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, which was made into a movie by Clint Eastwood. CIJI WARE is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist, an Emmy-award-winning television producer, reporter, writer, lecturer--and for two decades worked as an on-air commentator for ABC, PBS, and all three major networks in Los Angeles, covering a wide range of topics in the areas of health, consumer and lifestyle subjects. Her fiction has won the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence, a Golden Quill, Best Biographical Historical Novel Award from Romantic Times magazine. Her most recent historical novel, A Race to Splendor, was short-listed for the prestigious WILLA (Cather) Literary Award in Ware is the first woman graduate of Harvard College to serve as president of the Harvard Alumni Association/ Worldwide. DANIEL OROZCO is the author of Orientation and Other Stories (Faber and Faber). His work has appeared in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Whiting Writers Award. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Idaho.

3 Rendezvous Update CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Page 3 REGISTER HERE! THURSDAY, MAY 1, noon Registration 2-4 CRAFTING KILLER QUERY LETTERS Moderator: Merilee Marsh Jennifer Sander, Paul Levine, Nephele Tempest, Pooja Menon 5-7 EVENING RECEPTION Meet the Presenters 7-8 AUTHOR READING at Rediscovered Books Ciji Ware FRIDAY, MAY 2, Wake up and warm up with soft stretches Emily Nielsen, AFAA certified personal fitness trainer 9-10 WELCOME ~ OPENING SESSION Doug Copsey Alan Heathcock 10:15-11:30 AGENTS PANEL How to Go From Fingers on the Keyboard to Dollars in the Bank Ron Levine, Nephele Tempest, Pooja Menon Moderator: Doug Copsey 11:45-1:15 LUNCH WITH A PRESENTER 1:15-2:15 Session 1 SELF-PUBLISHING 101 A primer for the aspiring indie author, this will walk you through the basics of self-publishing, including format, cover, design, editing, production, ebooks and paperbacks, pricing, promotion, sales channels and management. A. K. Turner Session 2 FACT VS. FICTION: Getting It Right--Even If You Make It Up! A former reporter shares the skill-set needed to make your work "believable" Getting it Right, Even if You Make it Up Ciji Ware

4 Rendezvous Update CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Page 4 REGISTER HERE! FRIDAY, MAY 2, :30-3:30 Session 1 COULD HEMINGWAY GET A BOOK DEAL IN TODAY S MARKET? - A look at publishing past to understand the publishing future. Jennifer Sander 3:45-4:45 Session 2 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY NON-FICTION WRITING Speak, Memory!...On Second Thought, Shut Up! - In our time, for many aspiring writers, Nonfiction has become virtually synonymous with Memoir. I will examine the distinct heritage of American nonfiction writing narrative journey that breaks through the wall separating the Self from the larger world and attempt to show that Emerson s call for the Writer as cultural witness remains at least as timely in 2014 as when he issued it in ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS Session 1 MAXIMIZING BOOK SALES Marketing Your Book and Yourself. Whether you re traditionally published or self-published, you ll have to market your book as well as yourself. Here s a discussion of what seems to work, what may work, and what seems to be a waste of time, effort, and money. Ron Powers Joanne Pence Session 2 WRITING FOR THE YOUNG ADULT AND NEW ADULT MARKET an overview of fiction s younger cousins YA and NA, with tips on writing and selling in this market. Sarah Tregay 5-6 OPEN MIC Merilee Marsh 7-8 AUTHOR READING ~ CENTRE AUDITORIUM Daniel Orozco

5 Rendezvous Update Page 5 SATURDAY, MAY 3, Wake up and warm up with soft stretches Emily Nielsen, AFAA certified personal fitness trainer 9-10:15 Session 1 EDITING PANEL Working the Words & More Moderator: A.K. Turner Elizabeth Day, Stacy Ennis Session 3 C IS FOR CONFLICT: The Engine that Drives the Plot What makes a Genuine "Page Turner?" Why do some novels begin with promise, but then readers get bogged down and don't finish? New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of eight works of fiction, Ciji Ware, gives chapter and verse on the necessary ingredients that result in a story you simply can't put down. Ciji Ware 10:30-11:30 Session 1 FORM & STRUCTURE: How Long is a Short Story? - Whether a single moment or the span of several generations, the short story can encompass all such various narrative forms. But it must always present certain narrative elements to be called a short story. Engage these essential elements of short story craft, going back to basics via a discussion of story form and structure. Daniel Orozco Session 2 HUMOR WRITING: Easier Said Than Written Learn why some humor works in print and other jokes fall flat. We will highlight key elements of comedy in print and how to make your scene sing (or chuckle), as well as cover the warning signs of funny failure and when to reach for the red pen. A. K. Turner Session 3 CREATING FIRST IMPRESSIONS: The Importance of Cover and Book Design cover and design from 2 perspectives ~as an author working with a Big 5 publisher and as a graphic designer creating books for small presses and indie authors. Learn tips on finding the right cover for your book and creating welcoming interior layout. Sarah Tregay 11:30-1 LUNCH WITH PRESENTERS Writers working for Writers

6 Rendezvous Update Page 6 SATURDAY, MAY 3, Session 1 MARKETING YOUR BOOK AND YOURSELF Learn how to create a marketing strategy to successfully launch your book. From getting book reviews to setting up your online author profile pages, you ll learn everything you need to become a super-star book marketer. *You will receive a detailed step-by-step handout in this session. Session 2 INCREASE YOUR INCOME AND YOUR SKILLS WRITING FOR MAGAZINES Moderator: Merilee Marsh Christy Hovey Kitty Fleischman, Karleen Andreson, Cheryl Richard 2:15-3:15 Session 1 VISUAL STORYTELLING:A Animation Words, Art & Music Moderator : Clay Morgan Session 2 ADVANCED SELF-PUBLISHING Advanced aspects of self-publishing such as branding your books, creating a series or not, and once you ve got your e-book and your paperback book, what options do you have for online, bookstore, and library sales? Follows Self-Publishing 101. Steve Moore, Steve Kirwan, Jeff Meyers Joanne Pence 3:30-4:30 ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS Session 1 POWERFUL PROPOSALS: How to Write a Successful Non-fiction Book Proposal. Why would anyone want to read your manuscript? What is your competition? How will you help market your book? What are your credentials? Learn all this and receive proven guidelines for packaging a creative and dynamic book proposal that refuses to languish in the slush pile. Jennifer Sander, Elaine Ambrose Session 2 PLOT AND STRUCTURE: Screenwriting Techniques for the Novelist How the three-act structure and Hero s Journey can provide the framework for a novel, and how scenes, sequences, and acts are used to build forward drive and complicating progression in a narrative. Mitchell Wieland 6-10 AWARDS announced for winners of the writing contests BANQUET KEYNOTE SPEAKER : HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED TO LOVE NON-FICTION...In which the Distinguished Eminence His Own Self reveals to the Idaho Writers & Readers Rendezvous his own youthful episode of straying from his natural genre and into the glamorous world of memoir-based fiction, and what happened to him, and how the ordeal strengthened his belief that narrative nonfiction is a worthy literary goal at least when enlisted to seek, in James Agee s immortal phrase, The Cruel Radiance of What Is. Sherry Briscoe Ron Powers