PRE-CONFERENCE OPTIONS AVAILABLE ON FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012. 

**FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012:
12:00-5:00 Registration, Whidbey Telecom Community Media and Conference Center (CMCC), 1651 Main Street, Freeland.  Check in here first to get your registration packet. 
1:00-6:00 Manuscript Critiques (Limited)
1:00-4:00 Workshop: Quick Fixes for Fantastic Fiction 
    & Moving Memoir w/Elizabeth Lyon

2:30-4:30 Coffeehouse Chat with Renda Dodge or Sarah Martinez of Pink Fish Press. Brandon Lafave will be assisting as well.  Join them in the WiFire at Whidbey Telecom CMCC, 1651 Main Street, Freeland, for a cup of coffee and a chat about publishing – it’s  changing, and at the forefront of this change are the small presses and e-presses. What are the differences between e-only, print-on-demand and self-publishing? What is a small press? Pink Fish Press can answer all these questions, as well as any concerns about the changing climate of writing and publishing in an intimate, casual environment.                                                 

6:30-8:00 Dinner with Presenters featuring popular crime novelist, Elizabeth George (author of the Inspector Lynley series) as our keynote speaker.  She’ll be sharing her thoughts and words of wisdom regarding “Why We Write.”  (Limited Availability)

** YOU MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THE CONFERENCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE EVENTS.  THESE OPPORTUNITIES ARE AN ADDITIONAL FEE.
 

CONFERENCE, SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 3-4, 2012.  PLEASE NOTE CHANGES TO SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012, LANGLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, 723 CAMANO AVENUE, LANGLEY:
7:00-8:15 Registration/Breakfast Items for Sale

8:30-9:15 Opening Ceremonies/Keynote Address: David Handschuh, “Change, Survival and Reflection; One Photojournalist’s Transformation into a Travel Writer”

9:15 Look for signs for your Fireside Chat House to carpool as some of these homes have limited parking.  And, it’ll be fun to get to know the others in your Fireside Chat House on the way there. 

10:00-12:30 Fireside Chats (Private Homes.  The address and directions to your chat house will be on the ticket in your registration packet.)                                                                                     

12:45-1:45 LUNCH, Return to Langley Middle School, 723 Camano Avenue, Langley. Lunch will be held in the cafeteria, catered by PayLess Foods.                                                                                                   

2:00-4:30 Agent/Editor Consults, Langley Middle School Cafeteria

2:00-4:15 Classes, Langley Middle School, Main Building.

5:00-6:00 Book Signing Reception, Langley Middle School Cafeteria.

6:00-7:30 Dinner on Own – explore Langley. 

7:30-8:30 Fun Events in Langley. 

SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2012, Langley Middle School, 723 Camano Avenue, Langley:

7:00-7:45 Breakfast Items for Sale, Langley Middle School Cafeteria.

8:00-9:00 Marketing & Publishing Panel, Langley Middle School Aduitorium.

9:30-12:30 Agent/Editor Consults, Langley Middle School Cafeteria.

9:30-11:00 Classes/Workshops, Langley Middle School, Main Building.

11:15-12:30 Classes/Workshops, Langley Middle School, Main Building.

12:30-1:30 LUNCH, Langley Middle School Cafeteria, catered by PayLess Foods.

2:00-3:30 Agent/Editor Consults, Langley Middle School Cafeteria.

2:00-3:30 Classes/Workshops, Langley Middle School, Main Building.

3:45-4:15 Closing Ceremonies, Langley Middle School Auditorium.

WIWC 2012 will be based at the Langley Middle School in Langley, Washington.