TBR 2027

8:00am EST

Registration Opens

9:00am EST

Law and Order: POV TBAPeter Ho Davies Paths to Publishing: Which Is Right For You? TBAEdwin Hill • Trisha Blanchet • Becky Hilliker • Marin Takikawa Bookseller Tell-All TBA Leveling Up: Opportunities & Issues Faced by Mid-Career Authors TBAMollie Glick • Kelly Link • Ken Liu • Renee Zuckerbrot Zigman Freud Will See You Now: 12 Tips to Surviving and Thriving as a Writer That Have (Almost) Nothing to Do With Craft TBALaura Zigman Script Curious: How Book Writers Can Beat Their Own Path into Screenwriting TBAElizabeth Searle

10:15am EST

Beyond Memory: Mining the Past for Your Memoir TBAMathew Rodriguez • Alysia Abbott The Hook (and Other Things Writers Need to Know About What Gets an Agent's Attention) TBAJessica Berg Small Press, Big Opportunity: The Unique Potential for Authors in Small Publishers TBATommy Dean • Jaynie Royal • Viengsamai Fetters • Jedediah Berry Behind the Book Buzz: The Secrets of Book Publicity TBATaryn Roeder Context is Everything: Researching With, and For, Emotional Impact TBAAlex Marzano-Lesnevich Performing Your Work TBATheresa Okokon

11:30am EST

The Art of the Sentence in Memoir TBANicole Graev Lipson Finding "The One": Researching Agents Who Are Actually Right for You TBAKimberly Hensle Lowrance • Katherine Fausset What Fresh Hell? What's Changed in Publishing (and Whether It's Working) TBAMitchell Waters • Kim van Alkemade • Kat Kerr • Henriette Lazaridis Whether (and How) to Part Ways with Your Agent TBAMark Cecil • Courtney Maum • Sarah Khalil • Kaitlyn Katsoupis The Shape of the Thing: Finding Your Book's Real Structure TBACeleste Ng • VV Ganeshananthan Writing & Music TBALisa Borders • Rick Moody • David Ryan • Paul Harding

12:30pm EST

1:45pm EST

Time & Pacing TBAMichelle Hoover • Juliet Faithfull • Jennie Wood • Julie Carrick Dalton • Patricia Park Working with a Developmental Editor TBAElizabeth Pryor • Julie Merson Paper, Ink, Arcs, and More: How Books Actually Get Made TBANicole Caputo • Amy Caldwell SubStack, TikTok, & More: Is It a New Media Landscape or Is It Sucking Us Dry? TBACourtney Maum • Mason Rowlee • Kate Gale Time-Turners & Other Wizard Tricks: Straight Talk from Writer Who Get the Work Done TBAJoe Moldover • Weina Dai Randel • Rowan Beaird Working with Sensitivity Readers TBAHafizah Geter • Roma Panganiban • Virginia Pye • Viengsamai Fetters

3:00pm EST

As Above, So Below: Character-Driven Worldbuilding TBAKen Liu Soft Skills: How to Network Effectively Without Feeling Like an Asshat TBAAlexis M. Wright • Paula Weiman • Patricia Park How Audiobooks Get Made TBAChris Ciulla • Ashley Lopez How Readers Are Discovering Books Today TBAKeith Arsenault • Josh Cook • Sanj Kharbanda Making the Robot Work For You: AI Uses, Scandals, & What’s to Come TBAEdward Nawotka • Crystal King • Christopher Combemale • Perpetua Cannistraro Writing About Real People Ethically & Legally TBANicole Graev Lipson • Elizabeth Pryor • Rachel Eliza Griffiths

4:15pm EST

Cocktail Hour & Book Signing

5:45pm EST

8:00pm EST

One For the Books After-Party @ Flatbread

8:00am EST

The Sevens at Eight: Write-In with The 7am Novelist

9:30am EST

Earned, Not Engineered: On Building Plot TBACeleste Ng • Peter Ho Davies Query Tip: How to Write an Excellent Query Letter TBAAmaryah Orenstein Cover Design Case Study TBANicole Caputo Author Brand-Building TBAJenna Blum • Julie Gerstenblatt • Courtney Paganelli • Alexandra Sunshine • Perpetua Cannistraro The Doldrums: Author Strategies When You're Between Books TBARon MacLean • Chip Cheek • Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Borrowed Clothes: Drawing on Folkloric Narrative Structures TBAKelly Link

10:45am EST

Suspense, Intrigue, & Danger: What Mystery Writers Can Teach Us All TBAJenna Blum • Hank Phillippi Ryan • Edwin Hill • Joe Moldover I’ve Signed With an Agent; Now What? TBALauren Liebow • Weina Dai Randel • Laura Katz • Eric Smith Memoir Plus, Essay Collections, & More: The Publishing Landscape for Non-Fiction Today TBAAlysia Abbott • Maria Pinto • Mathew Rodriguez • Ashley Lopez Show Me the Money: The Business of Being an Author TBAMarkus Hoffmann • Kim van Alkemade • Heather Roberts Please Murder My Darlings: Or, How to Make Writing Fun Again TBARachel Kousser • Ilyon Woo Latest Tools & Technology for Writers TBA

12:00pm EST

Rules for Revision TBARick Moody I’ve Sold My Book; Now What? TBAPam Gruber • Amy Caldwell • Maria Pinto • Mariah Stovall The State of Publishing: Trends, Data, and What They Mean for You TBAAlexandra Sunshine • Ben White • Anjali Singh • Hafizah Geter Audiobook Narration TBAChris Ciulla Debuting Earlier vs. Later in Life TBAEric Smith • Virginia Pye • Rowan Beaird • Andrew Ridker The Human Journey: The One Final Actual Secret Of All Satisfying Stories TBAMark Cecil

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