Women Authors Speak

In Honor of Women's History Month

Come Meet Women Authors Who Share their Work and Techniques

Saturday

March 24, 2007

SoHo

203 Federal Street

Federal and General Robinson

Pittsburgh, PA

Located on the North Shore in the Marriott

If purchased online, price for Breakfast, Program, Parking & Buffet Lunch -- $45.00

If at door the day of the event -- $50.00

Or if purchased separately --

Registration, Breakfast & Program -- $25.00

Parking -- $5.00

Buffet Lunch afterwards -- $20.00

Program

8:00 a.m. -- Registration, Continental Breakfast & Networking

9:00 a.m. -- Pittsburgh Women of Achievement "Role" Call -- Pat McGrath Avery, Heather Schmidt, Carolyn Scott, Heidi Schmidt and Joyce Faulkner

9:20 a.m. -- Introduction by Anna Marie Gire, Editor of Women's Independent Press

9:30 a.m. -- "Breaking Through the Fear of Reaching For Your Dreams: Writer's Block and Other Bricks in the Water Bucket of Life" -- Nancy Mramor Ph.D. , author of "Spiritual Fitness" and an educational, health and clinical psychologist, a Spiritual Fitness Coach, a speaker

9:50 a.m. -- Ten Minute Break

10:00 a.m. -- "The Art and Craft of Poetry" -- Dessie Bey, author of "“Snappin’ Out! in more ways than one” and founding member and Assistant Director of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society of Pittsburgh and on the Board of Directors of UMOJA African Arts Company.

10:20 a.m. -- Ten Minute Break

10:40 a.m. -- The Amazon Whisperer: How to Use the Online Giant's Tools to Promote Your Book -- Joyce Faulkner, Author of "In the Shadow of Suribachi" and "For Shrieking Out Loud"

11:00 a.m. -- Ten Minute Break

11:10 a.m. -- Panel Discussion including:

"How to Publish Your Book" -- Pat McGrath Avery, author of "They Came Home: Korean War POWs Tell Their Stories" and CEO of RRP Consulting and Red Engine Press

"Ghostwriting" -- Barb Killmeyer, freelance writer and ghostwriter

Noon -- Program Wrap Up

12:30 p.m. -- Buffet Lunch & Mixer