Event Details

Register NOW for the 2013 Edgar® Week Symposium!

Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Location: Lighthouse International – Auditorium – Lower Level

111 E 59th Street (between Lexington and Park Avenues)

New York, NY 10022

What:                           On the Shoulders of Giants

Below is a schedule preview (subject to change)

Symposium Schedule

8:15 - 8:50:                    Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:55 – 9:00:                   Welcome – MWA's Executive Vice President – DANIEL J. HALE

9:00 -10:00:                   Learning the Trade

How Agents Adjust to the New World

Moderator: DANIEL J. HALE, MWA Executive Vice President

Panelists: DAN CONAWAY, Writers House

DAVID HALE SMITH, InkWell Literary Management

BARBARA POELLE, Irene Goodman Literary Agency

VICTORIA SKURNICK, Levine Greenberg Agency

PAIGE WHEELER, Folio Literary Management

10:10 – 11:10:              Let There Be Write

Who Helped Create You as a Writer

Moderator: HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, MWA National Board Member and Author (The Other Woman)

Panelists: KIM FAY, 2013 Best First Edgar® Nominee (The Map of Lost Memories)

DANIEL FRIEDMAN, 2013 Best First Edgar® Nominee (Don't Ever Get Old)

SUSAN ELIA MACNEAL, 2013 Best First Edgar® Nominee (Mr. Churchill's Secretary)

CHRIS PAVONE, 2013 Best First Edgar® Nominee (The Expats)

MATTHEW QUIRK, 2013 Best First Edgar® Nominee (The 500)

MICHAEL SEARS, 2013 Best First Edgar® Nominee (Black Fridays)

11:20-12:20:                  The New Mean Streets: Will Future PIs Remember Chandler?

Moderator: REED FARREL COLEMAN, Former MWA EVP, 2-time Edgar® Nominee (Onion Street)

Panelists: ACE ATKINS, 2013 Best Novel Nominee (The Lost Ones)

KRIS MONTEE aka P.J. Parrish, 2013 Edgar® Banquet Chair (Heart of Ice)

WALTER MOSLEY, 2013 Best Novel Nominee (All I Did Was Shoot My Man)

OTTO PENZLER, 2013 Best Critical/Bio Nominee (In Pursuit of Spenser)

12:30 – 1:30                  Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:30: Where Others Dare Not Tread

Is Any Subject in Juvenile/Young Adult Off Limits?

Moderator: JESS LOUREY, Chair, MWA Literacy Committee (The Toadhouse Trilogy: Book One)

Panelists: KATHRYN BURAK, 2013 Best YA Nominee (Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things)

ART CORRIVEAU, 2013 Juvenile Nominee (13 Hangmen)

JACK FERRAIOLO, 2013 Best Juvenile Nominee (The Quick Fix)

KAT ROSENFIELD, 2013 Best YA Nominee (Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone)

ELIZABETH WEIN, 2013 Best YA Nominee (Code Name Verity)

2:40 – 3:40:                   Creatures We Write...

Where Monsters Came From and Where They Will Go

Moderator: DANA CAMERON, Multi-Award Winning Author (Seven Kinds of Hell)

CHARLAINE HARRIS, 2013 MWA President (Dead Ever After)

TONI L.P. KELNER, Author, (Blast from the Past)

S.J. ROZAN, Two-time Edgar® Award Winning Author (Ghost Hero)

BEN H. WINTERS, 2013 Best PBO Nominee (The Last Policeman)

3:50 – 5:00:                   From the Writer's Desk:  Q&A with Ken Follett & Margaret Maron

Interviewer: OLINE COGDILL, 2013 Raven Award Recipient

Panelists: KEN FOLLETT, 2013 Grand Master

MARGARET MARON, 2013 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.

You may also pay online via the MWA Store: http://www.mysterywriters.org/?q=mwastore

Please sign up at:  http://www.theedgars.com/symposium.html