Speakers
Our 2012 Fiction Keynote Speaker is Sandra Brown
Sandra Brown is the author of sixty New York Times bestsellers, including Lethal, (2012), Rainwater (2010), Tough Customer (2010), Smash Cut (2009), Smoke Screen (2008), Play Dirty (2007), Ricochet (2006), Chill Factor (2005), White Hot (2004), Hello, Darkness (2003), The Crush (2002), Envy (2001), The Switch (2000), The Alibi (1999), Unspeakable (1998) and Fat Tuesday (1997), all of which have jumped onto the Times bestseller list in the number one to five spot.
Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages.
New Release
Latest Release: Tough Customer
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1416563105
About the Book: Dodge Hanley, first introduced in Smash Cut as Derek Mitchell's irascible but indispensable staff investigator, returns as the flawed protagonist of Tough Customer. A scoundrel women love to hate, Dodge has used shady means of delivering the goods in the past . . . but when it comes to aiding the daughter of his former lover, real estate mogul Caroline King, his dogged perseverance knows no bounds. In his determination to uncover the truth for Caroline and her daughter, Berry, Dodge teams with a small town sheriff to track down a depraved man who's obsessed with having Berry -- or killing her.
Patricia Schultz, Best-selling Author
Our 2012 Non-Fiction Keynote Speaker is Patricia Schultz
http://www.workman.com/authors/patricia_schultz/
Patricia Schultz is the author of the international bestsellers 1,000 Places to See Before You Die (now with over 3 million copies in print and translated into 25 languages) and 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die, books that reinvented the idea of travel books as both wish list and practical guide.
A second edition of the original book is coming Fall 2011, with 200 entirely new destinations and more than 50% new material woven into the revised entries, emphasizing travel areas rather than single sites. A veteran travel journalist with 25 years of experience, she has written for Buisiness Week, Oprah, and Real Simple. She also executive-produced a Travel Channel television show based on her book, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. Her home is based in New York City.
Jana Oliver is the award-winning author of the young adult Demon Trappers Series (St. Martin’s Griffin) set in a dystopian 2018 Atlanta populated by Hellspawn, Deaders and scheming necromancers. The series is now international, with editions in the UK, Germany, France, Poland, Brazil, Russia and Turkey.
Greg DePaul Comedy Writing
Greg DePaul is a writer and performer. After college, Greg worked as a private investigator, sang for a rock band, earned an MFA in playwriting, and wrote comic articles for The Washington Post. Greg began collaborating with writer/director Hank Nelken when they were hired by talent agency CAA to make a short, comic film spoofing Jerry Maguire; it was called Jerry Mashugana and starred Matt Damon, Geoffrey Rush and Demi Moore. Greg and Hank were soon hired to write comedy scripts for New Line, Fox and Disney Studios. They wrote the comedy Saving Silverman, starring Jack Black, Jason Biggs and Amanda Peet, which was released by Sony Pictures and Village Roadshow Productions. Their feature comedy, Killer Bud, was produced independently
Louise May Children’s Books
Louise May is Vice President/Editorial Director of Lee & Low Books, independent publisher of diverse books for young readers. She has been with the company for more than thirteen years and oversees the Lee & Low trade imprint as well as Bebop Books, the company’s educational imprint. Ms. May specializes in...
A literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, Katharine Sands has worked with a varied list of authors who publish a diverse array of books...
Alan Beechey Character Study
Anthony Artis Podcasts, E-mail, Digital Video
Steven Arvanites Screenwriting
A children's book Editorial Director with more than thirty years experience, Gina Shaw has worked with children's literature in every form for every age from pre-K to middle school...
As founder of NYCscreenwriter.org, Steven Arvanites heads the largest screenwriting organization in New York City...
Ann Cefola is the author of Sugaring (Dancing Girl Press, 2007) and translator of Hélène Sanguinetti's Hence this cradle (Seismicity Editions, 2007). In 2007, Ann won the Witter Bynner Poetry Translation
Jan Kardys Contracts
Jan Kardys, President of Black Hawk Literary Agency, has thirty years of diversified publishing experience for nine major publishing corporations. Jan was Contracts Director for several major NYC publishers...
Alan Beechey is the author of An Embarrassment of Corpses and Murdering Ministers, the first two titles in the Oliver Swithin mystery series, published by St. Martin's Press...
Anthony Q. Artis is the CEO of Down and Dirty DV, LLC. He has worked professionally in positions such as producer, gaffer, cinematographer, special-FX make up, sound mixer, and location manager...
Jack Camarda Media Training
Jack Camarda spent twenty years of his thirty-year broadcasting career as a high-profile morning radio personality in New York, Detroit, and Connecticut...
Gina Shaw Children’s Books
Penny Sansevieri Book Marketing
Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., is a bestselling author and internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert...
Eric Kampmann is President of Midpoint Trade Books, one of the leading sales and distribution companies for book publishers. Eric is also the Publisher and President of two publishing companies: Beaufort Books and Moyer Bell...
Lee Stringer, and award-winning author, changes the art of writing by introducing The Process, a wholly new way of writing better.
Eric Kampmann Book Distributor/ Publisher
Meredith Bernstein has been a literary agent for over thirty years, and she celebrated her own agency’s twenty-fifth anniversary in April 2006. Prior to becoming a literary agent, she worked as a story editor for film producers on both the East and West Coasts, as well as a freelance reader...
Meredith Bernstein Literary Agent
Success in the Young Adult Market
Katharine Sands Pitch & Hook
Ellen Ogden Developing Platform
Ellen Ecker Ogden is the author of four books, including her newest , The Complete Kitchen Garden, featuring 15 theme gardens and 100 recipes for the vegetable gardener who seeks creative ideas and organic techniques for growing their own food...
Ron Pramschufer Self-Publishing
Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department of City University, where she directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Ms. Laskin started out as a poet; consequently, hundreds of her poems have been published as well as four poetry chapbooks...
Ron has been in or around the printing and publishing industry for over 35 years. His experience, including working in the pressroom, bindery, production office and estimating department helped give him a firm foundation to build on when he entered sales and management...
Elena Hartwell is a playwright, dramaturg, and educator from the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent play, A Strange Disappearance of Bees, premiered with the Detroit Repertory Theatre in November 2010 and received its second production with Driftwood Players in Edmonds, WA...
Elena Hartwell Playwriting
Marcela Landres is the author of the e-book, How Editors Think: The Real Reason They Rejected You, and is the Publisher of Latinidad®, an award-winning e-zine which was chosen as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers by Writer's Digest Magazine.
Arielle Eckstut is a writer, entrepreneur, and agent-at-large for the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. David Henry Sterry is a book doctor and the author of eleven books, including most recently The Glorious World Cup.
Arielle Eckstut & David Henry Sterry at the 2011 Unicorn Writers’ Conference
Carol Higgins Clark is the author of eleven bestselling Regan Reilly mysteries: Decked, nominated as Best First Novel for both the Agatha and Anthony Awards, Snagged, Iced, and Twanged, published by Warner Books and Fleeced, Jinxed, Popped, Burned, Hitched, Laced, and most recently Zapped (April 2008) published by Scribner. Her newest book, Mobbed, (April, 2011).
She is the daughter of America's # 1 bestselling suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clark. They have co-authored four bestselling holiday suspense novels, Deck the Halls (2000), He Sees You When You’re Sleeping (2001), The Christmas Thief (2004), and Santa Cruise (2006).
Carol Higgins Clark, jointly with Mary Higgins Clark, received the University of Scranton's Distinguished Author Award in September 2000. For more about Carol Higgins Clark visit her websie. www.carolhigginsclark.com
Carol Higgins Clark at the 2011 Unicorn Writers’ Conference
2011 Unicorn Writers’ Conference Speakers
eBook Publishing
Best-selling author Laura Van Wormer has been a force in fiction since 1988 with the publication of Riverside Drive (now in its 6th edition). She spent a year working with a rocket scientist (literally) to create eBook editions of 12 of her 13 backlist novels and as a former bookseller, editor (Doubleday) and author, Laura was able to see certain things in the eBook industry that most “traditional book people”....
After an A.B. in philosophy at Cornell and graduate work in British and American literature at Northwestern, John Ware was an Editor at Doubleday for eight years, (publishing Tracy Kidder first), seven of which he also taught the industry-wide Editorial Workshop at NYU...
