This upcoming weekend I’ll be attending the annual San
Francisco Writer’s Conference at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. This is my third time
attending the conference and I’m looking forward to seeing familiar faces as
well as making new friends. This also marks the tenth year that this great
conference has been in existence.
I’ll be promoting my latest historical thriller, Caesar’s
Revenge, which you can learn more about here. In
addition, I’ll be listening to great talks by famous writers, including this
year’s guest speaker R.L. Stine (famous for his Goosebumps book series). There
will also be many literary agents in attendance who I will meet with during the
“speed-dating” sessions on the last day of the conference.
What writer’s conferences do you like to attend? What
experiences have you come away with that helped make you a little wiser? Anybody
else going to be attending the SFWC this coming weekend?
Hello Mark:
ReplyDeleteThis really does sound to be a most interesting event with the opportunity to meet up with other writers as well, of course, as publishers too. We wish you a most successful conference in what we believe to be a wonderful city.
I'm a SCBWI conference addict. I love them. I love their big conferences and their smaller chapter retreats. The SFWC looks fabulous. Have fun!
ReplyDeleteHope the conference leads to great things for you! I've never attended one, so no idea what it's like.
ReplyDeleteI always thought R.L. Stine was a woman! Oops, my bad...
ReplyDeleteHope you have a great time and wow those agents. I have only a vague grip on what conferences are in the UK, but I hope to get to one someday!
Fun!! Have a great time and sell that novel!
ReplyDeleteAnymore the only conference I attend is the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers conference in Denver. It's a good one, and it isn't too expensive, which is always a plus.
Hope you have a great time at SFWC! :)
ReplyDeleteI've never been to a writer's conference--or a conference of any kind, actually.
My students loved R.L.Stine, back in the day. Hope you have great success. I hope to attend the convention in November, Newport Beach.
ReplyDeleteI have never attended one. But I am sure it will be great to attend one. Hope you get your dream agent.
ReplyDeleteFun! I hope you get to meet lots of great new writers. I love that part of writer's conferences.
ReplyDeleteI attended the SFWC last year for the first time, but can't make it this time around. I wish you all the luck, learning and meeting!
ReplyDeleteNext weekend I will be attending the Christian Writer's Seminar in Castro Valley, CA. Not quite a conference, but similar, and I'm looking forward to finding out so much. I've never been to it before.
Many thanks for the support and encouragement everyone!
ReplyDeleteI hear so much about the San Francisco Writer's Conference that I'd like to go sometime. I usually go now and then to an SCBWI Conference, since most of the books I'm marketing are for children or tweens. But I also am working on a story collection for adults, so I would be interested in your report on SFWC when you get back. Best of luck in finding either and agent or publisher. Your book sounds quite interesting.
ReplyDeleteOh this sounds like fun! And I've never been to San Francisco. Will have to change that.
ReplyDeleteSo far, I've only been to a local SCBWI conference in good ol' WI, but it was SO much fun. I'm attending LDStorymakers this year and am SO excited because I get to see so many writing buds for the first time!
I hope the conference is amazing for you!