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Title: How to Get the Most Out of Your Conference Experience
Instructors: Dianne Drake & Julie Rowe
When: May 5 - 18, 2008
Cost: Heartbeat RWA members - $5, all others $10.

Workshop description:

Get the most out of your conference experience with tips and advice from two very experienced conference goers (who, together, have attended a total of 38 conferences).

Topics covered:

• Pre-planning your conference experience.
• Conference expectations - what, exactly, can you gain from the conference.
• How to pick your workshops.
• Meal planning.
• When you're alone - how to make friends, find seat-mates at lunch & be part of a group.
• Networking - when it's proper, when it's not.
• Making your way through the big events - book signing and RITA & GH gala.
• How to get the most out of your Agent/editor appointment(s).
• Should I take my computer and prepared to work?
• Should I take my manuscript for someone to see?
• What to do when it's over - timelines on requests, coping with conference letdown, making sense of everything you've learned.
• Q&A throughout the workshop.

Instructor Bios:

Award winning, best-selling author, Dianne Drake is now working on her 30th book and currently writes for the Harlequin Mills & Boon Medical line.

Dianne has attended about 30 conferences and has been a speaker at 25 of them. She's the program director for a published writer's conference in New York in 2008. Her next releases are:

Italian Doctor, Full-Time Father- 6/08 hardback, 8/08 paperback.
A Boss Beyond Compare - 8/08 hardback 10/08 paperback.

A 2006 GH double finalist, Julie Rowe is a passionate promoter of life-long learning. She's attended 8 conferences, and loves the opportunity conferences provide to meet other writers, learn new things and network.