10:00 – 5:00 How to Write a Query Letter/ Book Proposal

Aspiring authors are invited to look at sample queries and proposals and have theirs evaluated by the editors of Sybaritic Press.
(Review of queries does not guarantee acceptance of submission).

10:00 – 12:00 Author Signing – Marie Lecrivain, Nihilistic Foibles

Marie Lecrivain is the executive editor of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles.
Her prose and poetry have appeared in AE Magazine, Earth's Daughters, Subtle Tea, and Triplopia. She is the author of two poetry collections: Canticle of a Bored Hausfrau (Sybaritic Press 2003), and poetry whored, an e-chapbook (Tamafyhr Mountain Press 2004).

12:00 – 2:00 Author Signing – Brenda Petrakos, Stories from the Inside Edge

Brenda Petrakos is a writer/spoken word artist from Los Angeles, CA.
In 1979, her first play was published and produced at The Mercury Cafe Theater in Denver, CO. Her prose adventure started 20 years later in Los Angeles poetry scene.
Her work has been published by poeticdiversity, Sylvan Press, The Messenger, Voices of New Women Writers (Spring 2007 Duke University Press), Falling Star Magazine, and Really Big Show Anthologies 2& 3.

2:00 – 4:00 Author Signing – Len Richmond, Naked In Paradise

An American from Santa Monica, California, LEN RICHMOND created and co-wrote one of the most popular comedy series in British Television. Agony, about an advice columnist whose life is in disarray, has been broadcast in 24 countries (including twice on PBS). The series (starring Maureen Lipman) was nominated for numerous BAFTA and Writer’s Guild Awards, and won the AGLA Media Award for the “Responsible portrayal of its gay and lesbian characters”. Agony won the Banff International Television Festival as “Best Situation Comedy” and was revived by the BBC as “Agony Again”. It has been turned into a best-selling book (Arrow) and home video (W.S. Smith). He is co-editor of “The Gay Liberation Book” (Ramparts Press), which had original contributions from John Lennon, William Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Isherwood. It was a landmark book, stocked extensively in libraries, and used as a course text in Universities.