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8:00am EDT

Sunday Registration & Bookstore Mezzanine Level

10:15am EDT

9A: What Booksellers Want Writers to KnowFILLING Cambridge Room - 4th FloorAllison Pottern Hoch • Leah DeCesare 9B: Query Letter SkillsFILLING White Hill Room - 4th FloorChristina Morgan 9C: Dramatis Personae, or, What Are All These Characters Doing in Your Story?FILLING Tremont Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 9D: Hero of Another Story: the Antagonist that Drives the Story Forward Hancock Room - Mezzanine LevelAnne Gaughen 9E: Scene CPR Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorLisa Borders 9F: Character-Driven Plot Stuart Room - 4th FloorLauren Wilkinson 9G: Writing Transgender Characters Charles River Room - 4th FloorMilo Todd 9H: Don't Just Try to Please Me: On Incorporating Editorial Feedback (Or Not) Franklin Room - 4th FloorCherise Fisher 9I: Essentials of Voice Whittier Room - 4th FloorMona Awad 9J: Yes, You Can Write That in Your Memoir: On Line-Crossing, Competing Memories, and Giving Yourself PermissionFILLING Newbury Room - 4th FloorDaphne Santana-Strassmann 9K: Literary Idol: Nonfiction Focus Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelLauren Scovel • E. Dolores Johnson • Helene Atwan • Sonali Chanchani • Ashley Lopez 9L: Workshopping the First Page St. James Room - 4th FloorAnthony Marra 9M: Working Backwards: Understanding & Leveraging How Readers Think Cabot Room - 4th FloorTasneem Z. Husain

11:45am EDT

10A: Media Training: Being Your Best at Readings, On Radio, and On TelevisionFILLING Cambridge Room - 4th FloorLynne Griffin • Katrin Schumann 10B: Tell It From All Sides: Writing a Story with Multiple Points of ViewFILLING White Hill Room - 4th FloorAngie Kim • Mira T. Lee 10C: Writing Homelands: Place in Literature Tremont Room - 4th FloorKali Fajardo-Anstine 10D: Plotting, Pantsing and Everything in Between: How to Find Your Way Through That Messy First DraftFILLING Franklin Room - 4th FloorMichele Ferrari • Andrea Meyer 10E: The Things People Don't Say: Writing What Is Taboo Cabot Room - 4th FloorPooja Makhijani • Sejal Shah 10F: Back to School with Our Books: Finishing the Manuscripts We've Started Charles River Room - 4th FloorElizabeth Ames 10G: How to Sell a Memoir If You Aren’t a Celebrity or a PoliticianFILLING Whittier Room - 4th FloorCatherine Guthrie 10H: Micro-Level Revision: On Writer Tics, Filler Words, Grammatical Habits, and Other Sources of Slow ProseFILLING Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorElizabeth Shelburne 10I: Resilience on the Winding Road to Book Publication Newbury Room - 4th FloorLisa Braxton • Grace Talusan 10J: Writing on Your Own Terms: How to Start, Promote, and Maintain a Compelling BlogFILLING Stuart Room - 4th FloorSerina Gousby 10K: Genre-Curious? Becoming a Successful Multi-Genre Writer St. James Room - 4th FloorRita Banerjee 10L: Literary Idol: Fiction FocusFILLING Boylston Room - Mezzanine LevelNeal Thompson • Steve Woodward • Cherise Fisher • Christina Morgan • Bibi Lewis

1:00pm EDT

Marketplace Keynote | What I Never Saw Coming: Imagination & Reality in Publishing and More Grand Ballroom - Mezzanine LevelShuchi Saraswat • Marjan Kamali • Brandon Taylor • Jennifer Baker • Courtney Maum