Killer Nashville 2014 Schedule (Tentative Schedule: Times and Topics Subject to Change) Thursday August 21 1:00-5:00 PM Thursday August 21 6:00-9:00 PM Thursday August 21 6:00-7:30 PM Thursday August 21 7:30 PM 8:30-8:40 AM 8:40-9:35 AM THURSDAY AUGUST 21, 2014 Sisters in Crime Event () (Music Row 4) Doing Time With Sisters in Crime: Great Beginnings Presenters: Laura DiSilverio, Catriona McPherson, Cathy Pickens, Hank Phillippi Ryan Conference Pre-Registration Located at Conference Entrance KILLER WINE NIGHT WINE TASTING EVENT () Located in Legends Ballroom C MYSTERIES & MORE BOOKSELLERS PRESENTS: MYSTERY-THEMED PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITY (Legends Ballroom B) Free of Charge; Show up and Play Prizes will be Awarded FRIDAY AUGUST 22, 2014 REGISTRATION OPENS 8:00 AM at Conference Entrance - BOOKSTORES OPEN 8:00 AM Barnes & Noble Located in Broadway Ballroom K, Mysteries & More Located in Broadway Ballroom J AGENT & EDITOR ROUND TABLES Located in Gibson Boardroom, Old Hickory, Mockingbird 4, and Music Row 4 CHECK ROUND TABLE SCHEDULE FOR S AND LOCATIONS Opening Remarks (Broadway Ballroom B-D) Clay Stafford, Founder, Killer Nashville Session 1 Opening Session: (Broadway Ballroom B-D) 9:35-9:45 AM Killer Nashville s Dupin Detective Award Instructions (Broadway Ballroom B-D) Dan Royse, Assistant Director of the TBI Crime Lab, will explain how the Dupin Detective Award contest works, where the crime scene is, and how to fill out the forms.
9:45-10 AM MUSIC ROW 4 MUSIC ROW 6 10:00-11:00 AM Session 2 Plot Session 3 Using Social Media to Create Your Author Brand Presenter: Erik Deckers, Author / Social Media Consultant CRIME SCENE OPENS AT 10:00 AM in Broad East Prefunction Meet and Greet with Presenter outside bookstores Chat with the author, get books signed BROADWAY BALLROOM A/B Session 4 Short Stories BROADWAY BALLROOM C/D Session 5 Debut Novelists BROADWAY BALLROOM G/H Session 6 Presenter: Sgt. Derek Pacifico 11:00-11:15 AM 11:15-12:30 PM 12:30-1:30 PM 1:30-1:45 PM Session 7 Characters Session 8 Pros and Cons of Self-Publishing MUSIC ROW 4 MUSIC ROW 6 1:45-2:45 PM 2:45-3:00 PM Session 12 Presenter: A.J. Scudiere BREAK FOR LUNCH Session 9 Writing Romantic Suspense Session 10 Not too Naughty, Not too Nice: Between Cozy and Hardboiled Panelists: Session 13 Finding Success as a Hybrid Author BROADWAY BALLROOM A/B Session 14 Writing Paranormal Suspense BROADWAY BALLROOM C/D Session 15 Presenter: Marilyn Fisher, Author/Professor Session 11 Presenter: Dave Ciambrone, Retired scientist / Award-winning Author BROADWAY BALLROOM G/H Session 16 Presenter: Dr, Mike Tabor, Chief Forensic Odontologist for the State of Tennessee Office of the Medical Examiner
MUSIC ROW 4 MUSIC ROW 6 3:00-4:00 PM Session 17 Jump-Starting the Stalled Plot Session 18 Swag: What s Available, Where You Can Find It, and How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck BROADWAY BALLROOM A/B Session 19 Screenwriting 101 BROADWAY BALLROOM C/D Session 20 Personal Experience as the Grist for Fiction BROADWAY BALLROOM G/H Session 21 Dangerous Women 4:00-4:15 PM BROADWAY BALLROOM G/H BROADWAY BALLROOM C/D BROADWAY BALLROOM A/B 4:15-5:30 PM Breakout Session 1 Craft of Writing Breakout Breakout Session 2 Q&A with Agents and Editors 4:00-8:00 PM Cash Bar in Conference Lobby Area Breakout Session 3 Presenter: Leo J. Maloney, former Black Ops Contractor and Organized Crime Intelligence Investigator 4:20-6:30 PM Sisters in Crime Party Broad West Prefunction Come help Sisters in Crime celebrate their 28 th anniversary All Killer Nashville Participants welcome no additional charge 5:30 PM Enjoy Nashville On Your Own
7:00-7:45 AM SATURDAY AUGUST 23, 2014 REGISTRATION OPENS 7:30 AM at Conference Entrance CRIME SCENE OPENS 8:00 AM in Broad East Prefunction BOOKSTORES OPEN 8:00 AM Barnes & Noble Located in Broadway Ballroom K, Mysteries & More Located in Broadway Ballroom J AGENT & EDITOR ROUND TABLES Located in the Gibson Boardroom, Old Hickory, Mockingbird 4, and Mockingbird 3 CHECK ROUND TABLE SCHEDULE FOR S AND LOCATIONS Session 22 (Legends Ballroom G) Pen & Sword Wake up the little gray cells with Susan McDonald Susan is a writer and certified Forza Instructor who teaches samurai sword-based training classes at Vanderbilt University. She finds that the focused repetitive sword movements free the mind, stir creativity, and help overcome bouts of writer s block 7:45-8:00 AM Break 8:00-9:00 AM Session 23 Craft of Writing Presenter: Philip Cioffari, Author/Independent Filmmaker Session 24 Book Cover Design: What Makes a Good Cover and How Do You Create One? Session 25 Writing Thrillers Session 26 Killer Cozies 9:00-9:15 AM 9:15-10:15 AM Session 28 Pansters and the Story Arc Session 29 Using Your Strengths to Build a Readership Session 30 Writing Historical Mysteries Session 31 Murder, Mysteries, & Mayhem: It s all about Sex Session 27 Forensic Psychology Presentation Presenter: Sheila L. Stephens, Former ATF Agent/Private Detective/Law Enforcement and Forensic Psychology Expert Session 32 Whowuzit?: How to Solve a Crime when the Victim s Name or Body Is Missing 10:15-10:25 AM Session 33 (Broadway Ballroom A-D) Presenter: Deborah Halber, Dr. Maurice Godwin
10:25-11:10 AM INTERVIEW WITH GUEST OF HONOR LISA JACKSON Moderator: Clay Stafford, Founder of Killer Nashville 11:10-11:20 AM CRIME SCENE CLOSES AT 11:10 AM ALL DUPIN DETECTIVE AWARD BALLOTS MUST BE TURNED IN BY 11:20 AM 11:20-11:30 AM Meet and Greet with Lisa Jackson outside bookstores Chat with author, get books signed 11:30-12:45 PM NETWORK LUNCH (on your own) 12:45-1:00 PM Solving the Killer Nashville Dupin Detective Award Crime Scene Dan Royse, Assistant Director of the TBI Crime Lab 1:00-2:00 PM Session 34 (Broadway Ballroom A-D) PRESENTATION BY GUEST OF HONOR LISA JACKSON Moderator: Clay Stafford, Founder of Killer Nashville 2:00-2:45 PM Session 35 (Broadway Ballroom A-D) INTERVIEW WITH GUEST OF HONOR WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER Moderator: Clay Stafford, Founder of Killer Nashville 2:45-3:00 PM 3:00-4:00 PM BREAK Session 36 (Broadway Ballroom A-D) PRESENTATION BY GUEST OF HONOR WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER Presenter: William Kent Krueger 4:00-4:20 PM Meet and Greet with William Kent Krueger & Clay Stafford outside bookstores Chat with the authors, get books signed
4:20-5:30 PM Breakout Session 4 Breakout Session 5 Breakout Session 6 What Makes a Story Readers Can t Put Down? Ghostwriting 101 Forensic Sculpture Presenters: KN Authors and Editors 4:00 PM -12:00 MIDNIGHT 4:20-6:30 PM Cash Bar in Conference Lobby Area Mystery Writers of America Party (Broadway West Prefunction) All Killer Nashville Participants welcome no additional charge 6:30-7:00 PM BREAK 7:00-10:00 PM -------- 10:00 PM- Whenever GUESTS OF HONOR DINNER & AWARDS BANQUET WITH WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER & LISA JACKSON Keynote Speaker: AFTER DINNER ENTERTAINMENT (Broadway Ballroom E/F)
SUNDAY AUGUST 24, 2014 REGISTRATION OPENS 8:00 AM at Conference Entrance - BOOKSTORES OPEN 8:00 AM Barnes & Noble Located in Broadway Ballroom K, Mysteries & More Located in Broadway Ballroom J AGENT & EDITOR ROUND TABLES Located in the Gibson Boardroom, Old Hickory, Mockingbird 4, and Mockingbird 3 CHECK ROUND TABLE SCHEDULE FOR S AND LOCATIONS Sunday August 24 8:30-9:30 AM Session 37 Dialogue Session 38 Print and E-Book Formatting and Distribution for Self-Publishers Panelists/ Session 39 Writing True Crime Panelists/Presenters: Session 40 Heart of Darkness: Noir and Dark Crime Fiction Panelists/ Session 41 9:30-9:45 AM Sunday August 24 9:45-10:45 AM Session 42 Word Painting: The Craft of Descriptive Writing Session 43 How to Conduct Writing Workshops Session 44 Writing for the Tween, Teen, and YA Market Session 45 Funny Business: Humorous Mysteries Session 46 10:45-11:00 AM
Sunday August 24 11:20-12:20 PM Session 47 Craft of Writing Session 48 Your Author Website on a Budget Session 49 Writing Children s Mysteries Session 50 (Library Police Live Podcast) Session 51 Crime Causation 12:20-12:30 PM 12:30-1:00 PM SNACK/LUNCH BREAK Presenters: Library Police (reviewers, podcast hosts) Josh Mauthe & Dietrich Stogner, Author Sunday August 24 1:00-2:30 PM Breakout Session 7 Query and Synopsis Writing Workshop Breakout Session 8 Marketing and Promotion for the Busy Author Breakout Session 9 3:00 PM CONFERENCE ENDS Bookstores Close