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The Muse & the Marketplace 2017

Michelle Bowdler

MA

https://michelle-bowdler.com

I am a Grub Street memoir incubator alum and recent MacDowell fellow who has recently sold my book to Flatiron Books (MacMillan). I am happy to talk to anyone about the process of selling your book, finding a great agent, building an (ugh) platform, creating a website, and building a writing life while working full time.

7:30am EDT

Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing TBA

9:00am EDT

Welcoming Convocation & Opening Keynote Grand BallroomChristopher Castellani • John Freeman • Aleksandar Hemon • Claire Messud

10:30am EDT

1B: Essentials of StructureFULL Beacon Hill RoomDorian Fox

12:00pm EDT

2D: All-Conference Read in NonFiction: Cinderland by Amy Jo Burns White Hill RoomAmy Jo Burns • Richard Russo

1:00pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

2:15pm EDT

3L: Life Isn’t A Book Structure: Strategies for Shaping MemoirFILLING Beacon Hill RoomAlex Marzano-Lesnevich

4:00pm EDT

4M: Let Me Clear My Throat: Voice in NarrativeFILLING Tremont RoomMike Scalise

5:15pm EDT

7:30am EDT

Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing TBA

9:00am EDT

Mid-Muse Keynote: Isabel WilkersonFILLING Grand BallroomIsabel Wilkerson

10:15am EDT

5F: Essentials of Suspense in MemoirFULL Tremont RoomGarrard Conley

11:45am EDT

6F: The Art of Setting Franklin RoomCarter Sickels

12:45pm EDT

Lunch Break TBA

2:00pm EDT

7G: Developing Your Memoir St. James RoomPaul Lisicky

3:45pm EDT

8F: Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision (Section II)FILLING Whittier RoomChaitali Sen

6:30pm EDT

Dinner Break TBA

8:30am EDT

Breakfast, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing TBA

10:00am EDT

9H: Five Pillars of Place: Setting in Memoir Beacon Hill RoomAmy Jo Burns

11:30am EDT

10F: Telling a Story with Your Book Proposal Back Bay RoomMichelle Seaton

1:00pm EDT

Marketplace Keynote: 'The Strategic Writer'FILLING Grand BallroomPorter Anderson • Michael Bible • Christopher Castellani • Robin Cutler • Lynne Reeves Griffin • Mira T. Lee • Whitney Peeling • Deborah Plummer • Katrin Schumann • Michael Taeckens • Michelle Toth