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2008 PROGRAM - UPDATED 5/12/08 - IN PROGRESS

JANE CLELAND IS THE GUEST OF HONOR!

TROY COOK IS OUR TOASTMASTER


FRIDAY
8
:30 AM  REGISTRATION for conference workshop

9:30 AM - 4PM - Break for lunch
TROY HILLS ROOM
WRITER'S WORKSHOP: MURDEROUS INTENT
From initial idea through getting published and marketing


4:15  PM
REGISTRATION OPENS

BOOK ROOM  - Bennett Books will have a supply of books for sale - Please show your support for our authors and Bennett Books, an independent bookstore. 

7:00-8:00PM
Opening of Conference - Introduction of Guest of Honor and Featured Authors

8:00-8:15PM
Author Signings

8:15 PM to whenever
LIVING ROOM
Troy Cook will interview Jane Cleland  during theDEADLY DESSERT PARTY featuring many decadent and deadly desserts, coffee, tea, soda. Mingle with your favorite authors!  Door prizes

SATURDAY

9:00 AM Book room opens

9:15-10:00 AM
THE MORRIS ROOM
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF CONFERENCES AND CONVENTIONS
Chris Abbott, Roberta Rogow, Jane Cleland, Troy Cook

ROY HILLS ROOM
DOES EVERYONE HAVE A BOOK IN THEM?
Chris Grabenstein, Ed Rand, Selma Eichler, Robin Hathaway

10:00-10:15 Author signings

10:15-11:00
THE MORRIS ROOM
GARDEN STATE MYSTERIES 
Cheryl Solimini, Chris Grabenstein, Ed Rand, Peggy Ehrhart
 

TROY HILLS ROOM
ANATOMY OF A  SHORT STORY
Roberta Rogow, Rebecca Russell Mears, Anita Page, Lina Zeldovich

11:00-Noon Author signings...don't forget to visit the book room!

NOON TO 1:30 LUNCH BREAK

1:30-2:15
THE MORRIS ROOM
WRITING DIALOGUE: HE SAID, SHE SAID

TROY HILLS ROOM
NEW AUTHOR SHOWCASE 
Peggy Ehrhart, Austin Camacho, Ed Rand, Cheryl Solimini

2:30-3:15 PM 
THE MORRIS ROOM  - A presentation by John Reisinger

No DNA?- No Problem!
There’s more than one way to solve a crime
 
Solving a crime on TV is often a three step process: 1.- Find DNA at the crime scene, 2.- Match with suspect's DNA, 3.- Break for commercial. In real life, however, DNA only figures in the investigation of a small percentage of crimes, and is a relatively recent innovation. Over the years, therefore, real life detectives have used a lot of non DNA methods, some of them as unlikely as they are ingenious.
 
Join Master Detective author John Reisinger for a fast moving and informative PowerPoint presentation on crime solving methods from Victorian times right up to the present day. Hear how London City Police used post mortem photography to track Jack the Ripper, how a New Jersey detective used a bottle of river water to trap a killer, how a California chemistry professor solved the last great western train robbery with a microscope and an old pair of dirty overalls, and how a murderer was trapped by a coffee stain.
 
Mystery readers and authors will find that real life detectives often have a few tricks up their sleeves just like their fictional counterparts.

TROY HILLS ROOM
TBA
Bruce Makous, Austen S. Camacho

3:15-3:30 Author Signings

3:30-4:15
THE MORRIS ROOM
CROSSING OVER: BLURRING GENRE LINES - Mysteries and Romance? Paranormal? Horror? SciFi?
Ed Rand, Eileen Watkins,

TROY HILLS ROOM
PROTAGONISTS - AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL? Is your hero or heroine based on yourself? your alter-ego?
E. J. Rand, Bruce Makous, Jane Cleland, Cheryl Solimini

4:15 -5:30 Author signings - all authors

4:30-5:30 THE MORRIS ROOM
 SISTERS IN CRIME-CENTRAL JERSEY TEA
Take a break, refresh with tea, coffee and snacks, meet
members of Sisters in Crime - The SinC anthologies, CRIME SCENE: NEW JERSEY and CRIME SCENE: NEW JERSEY 2 will be on sale during the tea at discounted prices. SinC
authors will be happy to sign copies for you.

TROY HILLS ROOM
Writing Exercises - Writing prompts supplied

Book room closes at 5:30

GALA AWARDS DINNER at 7:00 pm 

Door prizes
Games


SUNDAY
9:00 AM Book room opens

9:15-10:15
THE MORRIS ROOM

TROY HILLS ROOM


10:15-10:30 Author signings

10:30-11:30
THE MORIS ROOM

TROY HILLS ROOM
ASK THE AUTHORS I

11:30-Noon Author signings...don't forget to visit the book room!

Noon-1:30 lunch break


THE MORRIS ROOM
1:30 -2:30 PM
ASK THE AUTHORS II

2:30-3:00 PM Author signings

3:00 PM Book room closes

Conference officially ends

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