2012 Edgar^® Week Symposium

The Edgars^® Symposium     Wednesday, April 25, 2012

2012 Schedule (subject to change)

We're All In This Together - From Typing to Tweeting, Selling a Book is Everybody's Job.

9:00 -10:00: Social Media - Pros Discuss the Pros and Cons

Moderator: HILARY DAVIDSON, MWA National Board Member and Author (The Next One to Fall)
Panelists: STACIA DECKER, formerly an editor at Harcourt and Otto Penzler Books, is a literary agent with the Donald Maass Literary Agency.
SHAWN NICHOLLS, Senior Digital Marketing Director at HarperCollins
MIRIAM PARKER, Marketing Director for Mulholland Books, an imprint devoted to suspense publishing at Little, Brown and Company
JASON PINTER, bestselling author of five thrillers and one middle grade novel, a former editor at Warner Books, Crown Publishing and St. Martin's Press, and currently the Senior Marketing Manager for Grove/Atlantic and Mysterious Press.

10:10 - 11:10: Debut Novelists Tell All
No one forgets their first time…

Moderator: HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, MWA National Board Member and Author (The Other Woman)
Panelists: EDWARD CONLON, 2012 Best First Edgar® Nominee (Red on Red)
DAVID DUFFY, 2012 Best First Edgar® Nominee (Last to Fold)
LEONARD ROSEN, 2012 Best First Edgar® Nominee (All Cry Chaos)
LORI ROY, 2012 Best First Edgar® Nominee (Bent Road)
STEVE ULFELDER, 2012 Best First Edgar® Nominee (Purgatory Chasm)

11:20-12:20: Hanging with the Pros
What makes characters memorable?

Moderator: REED FARREL COLEMAN, Former MWA EVP, 2-time Edgar® Nominee (Hurt Machine)
Panelists: ACE ATKINS, 2012 Best Novel Edgar® Nominee (The Ranger)
DIANA GABALDON, 2012 Best Short Story Edgar® Nominee (Down These Strange Streets)
SARA J. HENRY, 2012 Mary Higgins Clark Nominee (Learning to Swim)
KELLEY RAGLAND, Editorial Director, Minotaur Books

1:30 - 2:30: They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To
Writing for Modern Sensibilities

Moderator: WENDY CORSI STAUB, 2011 Mary Higgins Clark Nominee (Hell to Pay)
Panelists: TOM ANGLEBERGER, 2012 Best Juvenile Edgar® Nominee (Horton Halfpott)
SHEELA CHARI, 2012 Best Juvenile Edgar® Nominee (Vanished)
MAUREEN JOHNSON, 2012 Best Young Adult Edgar® Nominee (The Name of the Star)
TODD STRASSER, 2012 Best Young Adult Edgar® Nominee (Kill You Last)

2:40 - 3:40: Agatha's Heirs…
Smart Women, Smart Fiction

Moderator: S.J. ROZAN, 2-time Edgar® Award Winner (Ghost Hero)
Panelists: SANDRA BROWN, 2012 MWA President (Lethal)
MEG GARDINER, 2009 Best PBO Edgar® Winner (The Nightmare Thief)
DANDI DALEY MACKALL, 2012 Best Young Adult Edgar® Nominee (The Silence of Murder)
LISA SCOTTOLINE, 2011 MWA President and past Edgar® Winner (Come Home)

3:50 - 4:45: From the Writer's Desk: Q&A with Martha Grimes

Interviewer: OLINE COGDILL, Journalist & Reviewer
Panelists: MARTHA GRIMES, 2012 Grand Master


Cost: $90 members, $125 non-members - with a $35 retroactive discount for those who join Mystery Writers of America within 30 days after Symposium.

See the PDF schedule and registration form for full details.

Purchase tickets online.

On-site Bookstore: Partners & Crime will be selling the latest novels by the panelists. Signings will follow each panel. Note: Please contact Partners & Crime to pre-order books. Email: partners@crimepays.com Phone: 212-243-0440