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Muse & the Marketplace 2018

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8:30am EDT

Breakfast, Bookstore and Authors' Bazaar Browsing TBA

10:00am EDT

9A: Establishing AuthorityFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorRob Spillman 9B: Fantastic Extremes: The Environments of Speculative Fiction Winthrop Room - 4th FloorSara Rivera 9C: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus White Hill Room - 4th FloorSteve Macone • Sorche Fairbank • Kaitlyn Johnson • Rayhané Sanders • Anjali Singh 9D: Researching and Choosing Agents to QueryFULL Whittier Room - 4th FloorLouise Miller 9E: Resuscitating Your Darlings Cabot Room - 4th FloorSteven Beeber 9F: Secrets and Lies Back Bay Room - 4th FloorLynne Barrett 9G: Shaping Time in Fiction and Nonfiction Tremont Room - 4th FloorEthan Gilsdorf 9H: Structure, Risk, and Meaning in MemoirFULL Cambridge Room - 4th FloorAlex Marzano-Lesnevich 9I: The 2nd Draft: Radically Re-Imagining Your Novel Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorMarjan Kamali 9J: Writing (and Publishing) While Jewish: The Situation in 2018 Stuart Room - 4th FloorErika Dreifus • Rachel Kadish 9K: Writing the City St. James Room - 4th FloorMira T. Lee • Val Wang 9L: Yes, You're an Expert: Op-ed Writing for Novelists and Nonfiction Writers Newbury Room - 4th FloorLinda K. Wertheimer

11:30am EDT

10A: A Trip to the Playground: How to Make Writing Fun Again Franklin Room - 4th FloorAnnie Hartnett 10B: Demystifying Publishing Deals Whittier Room - 4th FloorMarisa Corvisiero 10C: Essentials of Backstory and Flashback in FictionFULL White Hill Room - 4th FloorTim Weed 10D: How to Write an Autobiographical NovelFULL Charles River Room - 4th FloorAlexander Chee 10E: I'll Build Me a World St. James Room - 4th FloorRion Amilcar Scott 10F: Literary Idol: Non-Fiction Focus Stuart Room - 4th FloorSteve Macone • Rob Arnold • Lucy Cleland • Annie Hwang • Monica Odom 10G: Reading Across Time: Literature, Exile, Revolt Cabot Room - 4th FloorAzareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 10H: The Psychology of Character: Digging to the Heart of Motivation Cambridge Room - 4th FloorLynne Griffin 10I: The Whole Story Winthrop Room - 4th FloorMichael Lowenthal 10J: Writing and Selling the Money-Making Essay Tremont Room - 4th FloorCalvin Hennick 10K: Writing Memoir: Or, How to Take Your Most Private, Painful Story, Shape it into a Cohesive Narrative and Send it out into the World Beacon Hill Room - 4th FloorTova Mirvis 10L: You Know More Than You Think: Writing Past the Rational Newbury Room - 4th FloorTasneem Zehra Husain

1:00pm EDT

Marketplace Keynote: “Selling Out Without Selling Out” Grand Ballroom - MezzanineSorche Fairbank • Steve Almond • Jenna Blum • Alexander Chee • Mitchell Zuckoff