12th Annual Conference

8:30 to  9 am

 Registration for tour members

9am to 2:30 pm

 Tour of Fort Worth

12 to 3 pm

 Conference Registration

3 to 3:15 pm

 Welcome to Fort Worth

3:30 to 5:00 pm

Researching Women and the West, panel with author Judy Alter, Director, Texas Christian U. Press, Owen Wister Award winner & others; Mary Jo Harrod, editor/freelancer, presenter of women’s history; Dawn Letson, The Women’s Collection, Texas Woman’s University; and author Jane Archer

3:15 to 5:30 pm

 Agent/Editor Appointments

6 to 10 pm

 Networking Reception and Buffet

7:30 am

Registration, Continental Breakfast

8:15 am

Greetings and Introductions with WWW President Sarah Rickman

8:30 to 9:30 am

Meet the Agents panel will provide expertise so we can learn more about what is involved in working with them.

9:30 to 10:30 am

Meet the Editors panel will enlighten conference attendees to the many facets of what happens when your manuscript is completed.

10:30 to 10:45 am

BREAK

10:45 to 11:45 am

Marketing and Promotion, George Arnold, retired advertising executive and published author, including Bestseller Must-Read, Author’s Guide to Successfullly Selling Your Book

Say it with Pictures; Picture Book Publishing with Donna Druchunas, whose books employ heavy photo usage, publisher/editor Deborah Robson, Nomad Press, and Melanie Chrismer, children’s author

11:45 am to 12:30 pm

BREAK, Bookstore Open

12:30 to 2:15 pm

WILLA Luncheon will honor 2005 WILLA Finalists with keynote speaker, Jann Arrington Wolcott, award-winning author with books in film, WWW founding member, magazine writer and editor, and inspiring speaker.

2:15 to 2:30 pm

BREAK

2:30 to 3:30 pm

Agent/Editor Appointments

Polishing Your Writing  Techniques, Donna Gimarc, successful author of 16 books and screenwriter

The Poetry of Memoir, with Laurie Wagner Buyer, Carol Morrison, Dawn Wink, and Carolyn Wing Greenlee

3:30 to 3:45 pm

BREAK

3:45 to 4:45 pm

Agent/Editor Appointments

From Fact and Fiction to Film; Cindy Sandell, author & documentary  filmmaker, Clay Reynolds, Univ. of Texas-Dallas, assoc. dean, instructor Literature Into Film and award-winning author, and Hal Sampson, Western film historian.

Women of Mystery: Creating Female Villains and Victims with Jann Arrington Wolcott, award-winning author.

4:45 to 5 pm

BREAK

5 to 6:30 pm

Bookstore Open

6:30 to 7:30 pm

Reception/Cash Bar

7 to 10 pm

2005 WILLA Awards’ Banquet, with keynote speaker, Rosemary Rumbley, international speaker, writer, humorist, and historian, Ph.D. from Univ. of North Texas, instructor at Dallas Baptist College.

8 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 to 9:30 am

Seeking and Securing Grants for Writing with Casey Hasten, who has succesfully written grants for charter schools and nonprofit organizations for the last four years, and has secured over $7 million in competitive grant programs for her clients in the last two years alone.

9:30 to 9:45 am

BREAK

9:45 to 11 am

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Women Writing the West, But Were Afraid to Ask, WWW President Sarah Rickman, and conference adjourns.