2010 Crime Bake Schedule

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(The schedule is a work in progress and subject to change.)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010

*** We have six master classes this year. Three from 4-5:15 PM, three from 5:25-6:40 PM.
*** Advanced Track Classes are designed for seasoned authors who want to take their writing and promotion to a new level.

3:00 -   Check In
4:00 - 5:15  
MASTER CLASS 1

SOLD OUT!

Writing the traditional Mystery

with Roberta Isleib
MASTER CLASS 2
*(Additional fee; limited to 40 participants)

Using screenwriting techniques to plot your novel

with Jan Brogan

Master Class 3 ***Advanced track:
*(Additional fee; limited to 40 participants)

How to talk about your book on the radio and create a podcast

with Jordan Rich

5:25-6:40 PM  
MASTER CLASS 4
*(Additional fee; limited to 40 participants)

Revision

with Barbara Shapiro

MASTER CLASS 5
*(Additional fee; limited to 40 participants)

Techniques for using humor in mystery


with Toni L. P. Kelner
MASTER CLASS 6 ***Advanced track:
*(Additional fee; limited to 40 participants)

Using acting techniques to develop character

with David Krasner

6:30 - 7:30 PM   Welcome Pizza Party
7:30 - 8:50  

Seminar I

SOLD OUT!

Practice your manuscript pitch

with Lynne Heitman
and Paula Munier
Seminar II
(No extra fee - Open to all registrants
Pre-registration needed)

Alternative Avenues to Publication

with literary agent Gina Panettieri
Ken Lizotte
Stephen D. Rogers
Kate Flora (moderator)
more speakers TBD
9:00 - 10:30  
TRUE BLOOD
Screening of an episode of the popular TV show based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries, followed by a Q & A with series author and Crime Bake Guest of Honor Charlaine Harris

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010

8:00-8:40   Check In, Continental Breakfast
8:40-8:50  
Welcoming Remarks
-- MWA-NE President Margaret McLean and SinC-NE President Pat Remick
8:50-9:00  
Presentation of the Al Blanchard Award
9:00-9:50   The View from the Top!
Successful mystery writers talk about staying alive, staying read, and taking the chances that have put them on top.
Charlaine Harris, Dennis Lehane, Katherine Hall Page, Julia Spencer-Fleming, and
Hallie Ephron (moderator)
9:50-10:15  
Break/Book Signing
10:15-11:15   Forensics:
Lock picker Schuyler Towne , a co-founder of Toool US (the American chapter of the Open Organization of Lockpickers) and the executive editor of Non-Destructive Entry magazine, will demonstrate his award-winning lock-picking skills.
11:15-12:35   Agents:
Meet the agents, a Q&A with literary agents about the state of the market, what they’re looking for, and how to dazzle them with your presentation. (2 tracks with agents switching rooms)
Moderators: Paula Munier & Hallie Ephron
12:35-1:35   LUNCH
Interview with Guest of Honor Charlaine Harris.
Interviewers: Pat Remick & Margaret McLean
1:35-2:00  
Book signing with Charlaine Harris
2:00-2:50  
TRACK I

Miss Marple, how you’ve changed!:
A group of experts describe how they create and sustain the modern amateur sleuth
Cammie McGovern
Kate George
Sheila Connolly
Katherine Hall Page (moderator)
TRACK II

Just the Facts, Ma'am:
Researching and writing credible professional sleuths
Noah Boyd
Gerry Boyle
Steve Liskow
Barb Ross
Kate Flora (moderator)
2:50-3:00  
Short Break
3:00-3:50  
TRACK I

So They Can't Put It Down:
Writers share their techniques for crafting a page turner
Dennis Lehane
Raffi Yessayan
Julia Spencer-Fleming
David Hosp
Jan Brogan (moderator)
TRACK II

Hannibal meets Sookie Stackhouse:
The joys and pitfalls of writing edgy, adventurous characters
Charlaine Harris
Noah Boyd
Wendy Clinch
Sarah Smith
Roberta Isleib (moderator)
3:50-4:15  
Break/Signing for previous four panels
4:15-6:00  
TRACK I

One on one pitch session
5-minute pitch sessions with agents and editors
TRACK II

Ask the experts
Get your plot questions about police investigation, legal procedures, lock-picking and other skills of the trade answered.
Raffi Yessayan (prosecutor)
Noah Boyd (FBI)
Schuyler Towne (lock picking)
6:00 - 7:00  
Cocktail Party
7:00 - 9:30  
Red and Black Banquet: A Vampire Ball
Come to the sit-down dinner and dancing and fun dressed as your favorite creature of the night or at least dressed to kill in Red and Black for a bloody good time. Costume contest judged by our "First Lady of Vampires" Charlaine Harris and others. Dance to "True Blood" music and monster tunes like Monster Mash, Thriller, Devil with a BlueDress on, Werewolves of London, and Scary Monsters.
*(Additional fee)

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2010

6:30 to 7:30   Yoga for writers - Michele Dorsey
7:30-8:45  
Breakfast with the Authors

9:00 - 9:50  
TRACK I

Wicked funny:
Meeting and defeating the challenges of writing humor
Emily Arsenault
David Carkeet
Steven Forman
Rosemary Harris
Toni L. P. Kelner (moderator)
TRACK II

Blasts from the past
Using history can be risky. Experts tell how they do it.
James Benn
Paul Doiron
Nancy Means Wright
Leslie Wheeler
Lawrence Light (moderator)
9:50 - 10:00  
Break/Book Signing
10:00 - 10:50  
TRACK I

I May Be Short, but I'm Powerful:
Some of the industry’s best discuss the challenges of writing the crime-based short story
Charlaine Harris
Stephen Rogers
Steve Liskow
Hank Phillippi Ryan (moderator)
TRACK II

I Don't Think We're in Kansas:
When Setting is as Powerful as Character
Emily Arsenault
James Benn
David Carkeet
Susan Oleksiw
Cathy Pickens (moderator)
10:50 - 11:15  
Break/Book Signing
11:15 - 12:30   Forensics: What's Written in Blood:
Blood spatter expert is Det./Lt. Kenneth Martin from the state police crime lab.
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