Schedule
8:00-8:50
Continental Breakfast
Included
8:50-9:00
Welcome
9:00-10:30
The Short and Short Of It: Writing Short Stories For Fun and Occasional Profit
Brendan DuBois
10:30-10:45
Refreshment Break
Included
10:45-12:15
The Short and Short Of It: Writing Short Stories For Fun and Occasional Profit, continued
Brendan DuBois
12:15-1:30
Buffet Lunch
Included
1:30-2:30
From the Editor’s Desk
Jackie Sherbow
2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-3:45
Create a Long Career Writing Short Fiction
Michael Bracken
3:45-4:00
Refreshment Break
Included
4:00-5:00
Everything You Forgot to Ask (Panel Discussion)
All Speakers/Moderated by Stacy Woodson
5:00-5:15
Wrap Up
Continental Breakfast
Included
8:50-9:00
Welcome
9:00-10:30
The Short and Short Of It: Writing Short Stories For Fun and Occasional Profit
Brendan DuBois
10:30-10:45
Refreshment Break
Included
10:45-12:15
The Short and Short Of It: Writing Short Stories For Fun and Occasional Profit, continued
Brendan DuBois
12:15-1:30
Buffet Lunch
Included
1:30-2:30
From the Editor’s Desk
Jackie Sherbow
2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-3:45
Create a Long Career Writing Short Fiction
Michael Bracken
3:45-4:00
Refreshment Break
Included
4:00-5:00
Everything You Forgot to Ask (Panel Discussion)
All Speakers/Moderated by Stacy Woodson
5:00-5:15
Wrap Up
Programming Details
The Short and Short Of It: Writing Short Stories For Fun and Occasional Profit
Brendan DuBois, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels and more than 200 short stories, will discuss the history of mystery short stories, and most importantly, provide tips and exercises to help you break into the short story market.
Topics covered will include:
Expect hand-outs, exercises, and lots of laughs and fun, but most importantly, knowledge gained!
From the Editor’s Desk
Jackie Sherbow discusses short stories from draft to publication with an editor’s point of view and shares information about working with Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
Create a Long Career Writing Short Fiction
Michael Bracken provides tips, tricks, and techniques to help writers of crime fiction short stories grow their career from first sale into a sustainable career.
Everything You Forgot to Ask
Stacy Woodson will guide our three speakers through an audience-driven Q&A and provide her perspective as an up-and-coming writer.
***The schedule is subject to change
Brendan DuBois, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels and more than 200 short stories, will discuss the history of mystery short stories, and most importantly, provide tips and exercises to help you break into the short story market.
Topics covered will include:
- The importance of immediate characterization.
- Dialogue, when to use it, when to ignore it.
- Clues, red-herrings, twists and turns…when and how they should appear.
- The challenges of length and pacing.
- Descriptions of weather: is it as important as dialogue written in Sanskrit?
Expect hand-outs, exercises, and lots of laughs and fun, but most importantly, knowledge gained!
From the Editor’s Desk
Jackie Sherbow discusses short stories from draft to publication with an editor’s point of view and shares information about working with Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
Create a Long Career Writing Short Fiction
Michael Bracken provides tips, tricks, and techniques to help writers of crime fiction short stories grow their career from first sale into a sustainable career.
Everything You Forgot to Ask
Stacy Woodson will guide our three speakers through an audience-driven Q&A and provide her perspective as an up-and-coming writer.
***The schedule is subject to change