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Friday, May 2, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Saturday, May 3, 2008, 7:30 am to 6:30 pm
Conference Center at the Maritime Institute
of Technology
692 Maritime Boulevard, Linthicum Heights, MD 21090
Registration Details
Schedule (PDF) Note: Subject to Change!
Editors and Agents
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Lucienne Diver Lucienne Diver has been an agent with Spectrum Literary Agency for nearly fourteen years and represents over forty authors of commercial fiction, primarily in the areas of romance, fantasy, mystery, suspense and erotica. She's a member of the Association of Authors Representatives, RWA, MWA and SFWA. She currently works for Spectrum from a home-office in Land O Lakes, Florida. (click on your browser's "back" button to return to the conference details page). |
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Jane Frutchey Jane Frutchey is a Finksburg-based writer/editor with 23 years of experience, serving book, journal, newspaper, and magazine publishers. Her creative nonfiction and poetry earned multiple awards in the Maryland Writers' Association 2005 Short Works Contest and in the Missouri Saturday Writers' 2005 Poetry Contest. Jane's prose and poetry have been published in Women on a Wire, Vol. 2, September 11: Maryland Voices, Scribble, the Cuivre River Anthology, and the Writing in Motion Project. She is author of Seven Steps to Starting and Running an Editorial Consulting Business. Jane's articles have been published in Maryland Life, Mason-Dixon Arrive, Carroll Magazine, Tradition, Baltimore Dog Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore's Child, The Business Monthly, and Howard County Times, among others. She has served as managing editor of three regional newspapers, as an adjunct English professor at Towson University, and as a guest speaker/panelist for writing programs in Baltimore/Washington, D.C. She is a judge in the MWA Novel Writing Contest. (click on your browser's "back" button to return to the conference details page). |
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Adina Kahn Adina Kahn joined Dystel & Goderich Literary Management after having worked for a number of years in film and television development at the Sokolow Company, based at Sony Pictures Television. She received her BA in English at Columbia University. Adina grew up in Manhattan and loves wandering the city, exploring neighborhoods and trying new restaurants. She currently resides there with her husband and spends her free time watching old movies, rooting for the Yankees, and analyzing the television show Lost. Adina's areas of interest include literary and commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, pop-culture, food writing, and self-improvement. (click on your browser's "back" button to return to the conference details page). |
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Melanie Rigney Melanie Rigney has more than twenty-five years' experience as an editor, writer, and reporter. In the past three years, her company, Editor for You, has provided content and copy editing and manuscript evaluation services to more than 150 authors, publishers, and agents. Melanie spent five years as the editor of Writers Digest, the leading magazine for writers, and was involved in final-round judging for the magazine's writing competitions. Earlier in her career, she worked for Advertising Age magazine, Thomson Financial Publishing, Macmillan Computer Publishing, and United Press International. Melanie is a member of the Women's National Book Association, Capital Christian Writers, Publishers Marketing Association, and Daughters of the American Revolution, and is very active in her parish in Arlington, Virginia. She serves on the board of the St. David's Christian Writers Association. Melanie's memoir about her return to faith, What to Wear on Your Way to Hell . . . and Other Detours to Heaven, is under consideration by a leading Christian literary agent. (click on your browser's "back" button to return to the conference details page). |
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Beth Rubin Beth Rubin is a prize-winning author of fiction and non-fiction. Her novel, Split Ends, won a first prize for fiction in 2001 (the first year of the MWA novel contest). She is the author of Frommer's Washington, D.C. With Kids, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. for Dummies and, most recently, Delaware Curiosities. Her features and essays appear in print and on the Web. Through her business, onthewritepage.com, she edits, collaborates, ghostwrites, and coaches writers through the publishing minefield. Beth works and inhales chocolate at her home/office in Annapolis, where shes working on a second novel. Between deadlines her four grandchildren, sailing, and travel inspire her.(click on your browser's "back" button to return to the conference details page). |
| [Photo Coming Soon] | Laura Strachan The Strachan Literary Agency is committed to strong, quality narrative writing, whether literary fiction or narrative non-fiction. New, fresh voices are especially encouraged. The Strachan Literary Agency does not charge fees for reading or editing manuscripts. Fiction: Primarily Literary Fiction, will consider Mystery/Suspense and Legal or Psychological thrillers if beautifully written. Also Children's Literature. Non-Fiction: Narrative Non-fiction including Memoirs and Travel Writing. Will also consider Parenting, Psychological/Self-Help, Interior Design/ Decorating, Cooking/Food, Gardening, Cultural Arts, Photography, Gift Books. (click on your browser's "back" button to return to the conference details page). |