A West Coast Writers Conference Production, The Big Story Writers Conference will be held this weekend at the Los Angeles Valley College from Friday, February 20 through Sunday, February 22. Here's the program. For fiction, nonfiction, and screen writers it will be chock full of workshops, seminars, and lectures with forty speakers, veteran educators, industry experts, publishing professionals, literary agents, publishers, and best-selling authors. And I'm happy to say I'll be one of them. I'll appear on a panel discussing: How to Write a Book Proposal that Sells (geared to nonfiction authors) The panel description says: Nonfiction authors have a special task of developing a book proposal that actually speaks for them -- even before the book is written. This panel of veteran authors will explain the elements of the proposal, and how to structure a successful one. That special task can be very daunting. However, the main lesson I learned in writing my book … [Read more...]