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CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS John Hart John’s first novel, The King of Lies, went through six printings and spent multiple weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His next novel, Down River, won the Edgar Award for Best Novel and spent weeks on GENERAL INFO both the New York Times and London Times bestseller list. His third novel and latest release is The Last Child. CONFERENCE DATES Friday, April 29 Saturday, April 30 Linda Lael Miller Sunday, May 1 With more than 80 novels to her credit, Linda left Washington years ago and pursued her SPECIAL ADD-ON DAY wanderlust, living in Arizona and London and Thursday, April 28 traveling the world. Now the “First Lady of the West” is glad to be back home, writing contemporary and historical bestsellers COST which have earned her numerous awards Conference $395 and accolades. Thursday Add-on $50 Thursday ONLY $90 Beth Kendrick After April 1, the cost to Beth writes fun, lively women's fiction as register increases to $435 Beth Kendrick and a series for teens under the name Beth Killian. Her titles include: Second Time Around, The Pre-Nup, Exes REGISTRATION and Ohs, My Favorite Mistake, and Register through our Fashionably Late to name a few. website at pikespeakwriters.com LOCATION Tom Piccirilli Colorado Springs Marriott Tom is the author of more than twenty novels 5580 Tech Center Drive including Shadow Season, The Cold Spot, Co Springs, CO 80919 The Coldest Mile, A Choir of Ill Children, and the forthcoming The Last Kind Words. He's won the International Thriller Award, four For more information Bram Stoker Awards, and been nominated please visit our website for the Edgar, the World Fantasy Award, and or call 719-244-6220. Le Grand Prix de L'imagination. 1 Pikes Peak Writers is proud to welcome editors and agents from across the country. These industry pros provide insight on writing from a publishing perspective. That insight may take the form of a pitch appointment, Read & Critique appointment, or Q&A panel, but no matter the format, the information is priceless. Debra Dixon, Editor BelleBooks, Inc. Debra Dixon is president and publisher of BelleBooks and its imprint Bell Bridge Books. BelleBooks focuses primarily on Southern fiction, while Bell Bridge Books publishes a broad range of fiction including mystery/ suspense, fantasy, young adult, romance, literary and women’s fiction. Debra is the acquiring editor for science fiction, fantasy, young adult and horror. www.bellebooks.com Brittany Hamblin, Editor Harper Perennial, Harper Paperbacks, & It Books GENTS Brittany Hamblin is an assistant editor with Harper Perennial, Harper Paperbacks, and It Books. Her editorial interests include literary and women’s fiction, A as well as commercial nonfiction projects about film, pop-culture, food, travel, and fashion. Her recent titles include Molly Ringwald’s Getting the Pretty Back and Susan Henderson’s debut novel Up From the Blue. & www.harpercollins.com Sharyn November, Editor Firebird, Puffin Books, & Viking Children’s Books Sharyn November is senior editor at Viking Children's Books and the editorial director of Firebird Books. Firebirds Rising, the second anthology she edited for the imprint, was a World Fantasy Award Finalist for Best Anthology. She is looking for middle grade and young adult work—realistic, historical, fantasy/science fiction—anything with a strong voice. www.sharyn.org DITORS DITORS Kristine Pratt, Editor E Written World Communications Kristine Pratt is the Editor-in-Chief of Written World Communications, a traditional royalty-paying publisher of both Christian and general market work. They currently have five book and magazine imprints that encompass everything from original graphic novels to cozy mysteries, Christian living, and speculative fiction. www.writtenworldcommunications.com 2 Andrea Brown, Agent Denise Little, Agent Andrea Brown Literary Ethan Ellenberg Agency Andrea Brown is the Denise Little is an agent with President of the Andrea the Ethan Ellenberg Agency, Brown Literary Agency, Inc. and she’s edited more than Before opening her own twenty New York Times firm, Andrea worked in the bestselling writers. Her editorial departments at agency is interested in all Alfred A. Knopf, Random kinds of fiction, including House and Dell. Andrea thrillers, mysteries, child- Brown Literary represents ren's, romance, women's authors of picture books, fiction, ethnic, science chapter books, middle fiction, fantasy, general grade, young adult, juvenile fiction, and literary fiction as nonfiction, and graphic novels. long as it has a strong narrative. In nonfiction, they are interested in current affairs, history, health, science, www.andreabrownlit.com psychology, cookbooks, new age, spirituality, pop- culture, adventure, true crime, biography and memoir. Please no poetry, short stories or screenplays. Sandra Bond, Agent www.ethanellenberg.com Sandra Bond Literary Sandra Bond has had her own literary agency in Jill Marsal, Agent Denver for twelve years. Marsal Lyon Literary Sandra works with both Jill Marsal is a founding first-time and previously partner of the Marsal Lyon published authors, and her Literary Agency and has clients include writers of been in the publishing adult fiction in various industry for over 15 years. genres, young adult fiction, In fiction, Jill looks for and many categories of general fiction, women's nonfiction. In fiction, she is fiction, Southern fiction, most interested in rep- stories of family or multi- resenting adult commercial and literary fiction, and generations, paranormal, young adult and middle grade fiction including romantic suspense, cate- fantasy. She does not represent adult fantasy, gory romance, mysteries, science fiction, romance or poetry. In nonfiction, she and thrillers. On the nonfiction side, Jill's areas of is looking for science, history and narrative nonfiction interest include current events, business, health, self- written for the general public by credentialed writers help, relationships, psychology, parenting, history, and who have a platform. narrative nonfiction. www.bondliteraryagency.com www.marsallyonliteraryagency.com Natalie Fischer, Agent Joanna Volpe, Agent Bradford Literary Coffey Literary Agency Natalie Fischer is an agent Joanna Volpe has been with with the Bradford Agency. Coffey Literary Agency since She is interested in January 2008. She is commercial fiction, esp- interested in: nonfiction for ecially children's literature kids and teens, chapter (from picture books to books to young adult novels, young adult/teen), multi- adult romance (historical, cultural fiction, historical paranormal), fantasy (urban fiction, paranormal fantasy, steampunk), romance (contemporary magical realism, horror, dark and historical), science literary fiction, women's fiction/fantasy in young fiction, thrillers, historical, and adult or romance only, fairy tale/legend spin-offs, and commercial nonfiction (pop culture, environmental, "beautiful dark" novels. She will also consider select foodie). She is also interested in graphic novels for memoir. kids/teens. www.bradfordlit.com http://nancycoffeyliterary.com 3 AUTHORS & SPECIALISTS Hilari Bell Ronald Cree Hilari Bell writes science fiction and fantasy for Ronald Cree attended the University of Colorado, children and teens, including the Raven Duet and where he studied television production and mass the Goblin Trilogy. She loves writing fantasy and media communications. He began writing Desert science fiction because, "Being able to shape a Blood 10PM/9C (Simon Pulse, 2005) as part of a whole world to support your story lets you do class project taught by Anthony and Agatha more with it. And let’s face it, SF and fantasy are Award-winning author Rhys Bowen. Since 2001, cool!" Ronald has created websites for several popular Hollywood actors, including Nicholas González, Fleur Bradley Eva Longoria, and Nathan Marlow, among others. Writing as F.T. Bradley, Fleur recently found a home for her middle grade series with Harper Todd Fahnestock Children's—look for Double Vision in 2013. Many At the 2004 Pikes Peak Writers Conference, Todd of Fleur's short stories have appeared online and and his writing partner, Giles Carwyn, struck a in print, in places like Discount Noir, The Thrilling chord with their collaborative fantasy novel, Heir Detective, Shred of Evidence, Versal and Stories of Autumn, and landed a three-book contract with for Children. Originally from the Netherlands, she HarperCollins for the Heartstone Trilogy: Heir of now lives in Colorado with her husband, two Autumn, Mistress of Winter, and Queen of daughters, and too many cats. Find her on the Oblivion. Todd resides in Englewood, Colorado in Web at: www.fleurbradley.com an old Victorian house with his beautiful and talented wife Lara and their precocious children. Carol Berg He is working on his next novel, Fairmist. Former software engineer Carol Berg never expected to become an award-winning author, but Maria Faulconer her hobby of writing epic fantasy novels got out of A San Francisco native, Maria Faulconer is hand. Her eleven novels have won the Geffen, published in magazines, journals and anthologies the Prism, and multiple Colorado Book Awards, for children and adults. Her children's book, and the 2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Arianna and the Strawberry Tea, was selected as Literature. Amazing for one who majored in math a shelf-talker for Barnes and Noble and promoted and computer science to avoid writing papers. on Live! With Regis & Kathie Lee. Her latest book, A Mom for Umande, will be released by Dial Becky Clark Books for Young Readers in the fall of 2012. She Becky Clark is a popular blogger, entrepreneur, is a regular contributor to Colorado Springs Style speaker, and author of wildly divergent books— Magazine. for example, An UnCivil War—The Boys Who Were Left Behind (middle grade historical fiction); David Macinnis Gill Reading Maniac—Fun Ways To Encourage David Macinnis Gill is an associate professor of Reading Success (a guide for parents of reluctant English education at the University of North readers); and The Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle Carolina at Wilmington, specializing in young Cookbook. Her BeckyLand blog can be found at adult literature.