Richard Alexander Hall

Archive for February, 2012

As I have finished my first science fiction short story, TREACHERY (in screenplay format, and I’ve adapted it to a prose narrative of about 8,000 words–and am working at expanding it to a feature-length sreenplay/long prose novelette?), I’ll be attending the following sessions at this symposium. Maybe. Multiple lists are up in the air–one or the other.

LTUE 2012 Schedule

Thursday, February 9, 2012

9:00 AM:
-Marketing and Publicity–what can you do?
(Jenn R. Johansson, Bree DeSpain (M), Elana Johnson, Lynn Hardy, Chris Schoebinger)

10:00 AM:
-What Exactly Does an Editor Do, Anyway?

(too late for those as I post this!)

11:00 AM:
-Queries and Pitches
(Lisa Mangum, Kirk Shaw, Donna Milakovic (M), J. Scott Savage, Chris Schoebinger)

Noon:
-Ebooks–A good way to get published?

-Collaborating with a family member-
1:00 PM
-Writing for LDS markets
(Tristi Pinkston, Lisa Mangum, Berin Stephens, Laura Bingham (M), Chris Schoebinger)

-Making a Book Trailer
(Paul Genesse, Heather Monson (M), Dan Wells, Angela Corbett, Lani Woodland)

Friday, February 10, 2011

9:00 AM:
-Military on Military SF
(Roger White, Steve Harmon (M), Brad R. Torgersen, Zachary Hill, Jeffrey Meeks)

10:00 AM:
-Monsters and Mormons

11:00 AM:
Main Address: James A. Owen

Noon:
-How to write a good short story
(Eric James Stone, Suzanne Vincent, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Heather Frost, Dan Willis (M))

1:00 PM
=Military Characters and how a military unit works in the real world
(Jeffrey Meeks)

2:00 PM
-Art Tools of the Trade

3:00 PM
Military Strategy, technology, and operations in a complex world environment

(Jeffrey Meeks)
4:00 PM

-Local Publishers
5:00 PM

-Effective Book Signings: How to get people to come to your book signings.
6:00 PM

-You’ve Written Your Book–Now What?
(Laura Bingham, Kirk Shaw, J. Scott Savage (M), Jennifer A. Nielsen, Chris Schoebinger)

-Writing Query Letters
(Elana Johnson)

-Book Bombs: How to make an Amazon.com bestseller
(Randy Tayler (M), Robison Wells, Larry Correia, Stacy L. Whitman, Michaelbrent Collings)

Saturday, February 11, 2012

9:00 AM:
-Accomplishing Your Goals as a Writer (Brandon Mull, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fablehaven and Beyonders)

-Dave Wolverton Reading

10:00 AM:
-Free Books Are Worth Every Penny: A discussion on the revolution in new media publishing and its impact on the craft of professional writing. New models of publishing explored. Why the point is no longer about being published … but about being READ.

11:00 AM:

-Writers on Writing:
Four bestselling authors talk about their theories of writing, etc. [My motto, obtained from Richard Dutcher: "Writers write." If you do nothing else, plant your butt in the chair, clear all the theory and nonsense (wreckage!--most of it is garbage!) you've ever been taught away, and write a page (or three!) a day, from your heart and gut. Or whatever comes to you. Write.]
(Dave Wolverton (M), Brandon Sanderson, Tracy Hickman, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.)

Noon:
- The Book of Jer3miah and the Power of Transmedia Storytelling

“Preparing Creative Kids to Create”
1:00 PM

-Writing Cross-Culturally: Mistakes to Avoid, or, How to Avoid Cultural Misappropriation.
(Stacy Whitman)

2:00 PM
-Plots, Subplots, and Foreshadowing
(Bree DeSpain (M), J. Scott Savage, Brandon Sanderson, James A. Owen, Stacy Whitman)

“The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books for Youth”
(Patricia Castelli, Marilee Clark)

-Book Covers–what separates a beginner from a pro?

3:00 PM
- The Published (and aspiring) Author’s Toolbox: Learning skills for networking, blogging, social media, and self-promotion. This workshop will teach principles and give you a chance to practice skills to integrate networking, blogging, social media, and self-promotion into your professional life without being the person who annoys and without pulling you out of balance with yourself.
(Sandra Tayler, Mary Robinette Kowal)

-Space travel without warp drive
(Laura Swift Lind, Roger White, Brad R. Torgersen (M), Dan Lind, Bill Housley)

4:00 PM
- The Published (and aspiring) Author’s Toolbox: Learning skills for networking, blogging, social media, and self-promotion. This workshop will teach principles and give you a chance to practice skills to integrate networking, blogging, social media, and self-promotion into your professional life without being the person who annoys and without pulling you out of balance with yourself. (Continued)
(Sandra Tayler, Mary Robinette Kowal)

Breaking into Hollywood
(Dave Wolverton)