Travel writers love to travel! Unfortunately, travel is the most costly and time-consuming part of the business. This panel of experienced writers and editors will discuss how to generate more ideas, stories, and sales from your travel experiences.

Moderator: Greg Breining, ASJA; author Wild Shore: Exploring Lake Superior by Kayak; contributor New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated.

Terese Loeb Kreuzer, ASJA; editor in chief of the Travel Arts Syndicate and author of How to Move to Canada: A Primer for Americans. Her articles and photographs have appeared in leading U.S. and Canadian publications.

Alicia Miller, senior editor at Hemispheres, the inflight magazine of United Airlines, named Best Inflight Magazine by the 2006 Avion Awards.

Stephen Regenold, ASJA; regular contributor to The New York Times' "Escapes" section, where he writes on the outdoors and adventure travel. He also writes the nationally syndicated newspaper column "The Gear Junkie."

Friday #02 / Contract Preparation and Negotiation

Contract expert Jan Kardys delivers a wealth of "insider's insights," including the important contract clauses that every author must know, and a detailed explanation of typical subsidiary rights. In an interactive "interview" format with author/journalist Christopher Kenneally, Jan will sound a cautionary note worth hearing by both seasoned authors and those with a first book coming to market. Attendees will receive valuable handouts, including samples of original documents, such as a reversion of rights checklist; a reversion of rights request letter; and more.

Moderator: Maureen Littlejohn, ASJA, writer/editor specializing in travel, business, lifestyle and entertainment articles for magazines in Canada and the United States.

Jan L. Kardys has acted as director of contracts for Warner Books/Little Brown and Co., Macmillan Publishing Co., and Prentice Hall/Simon and Schuster.

Christopher Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center, hosts programs that address the business needs of authors of all backgrounds.

Friday #03 / It's a Big World After All: Writing for Foreign Markets

How tough is it to break into and sustain relationships with publications outside the US? Four journalists with credits on five continents tell all about meeting editorial and style demands in other cultures, hitting your rate targets abroad, and navigating logistics.

Moderator: Randy B. Hecht, ASJA; contributor, Espacios (Mexico), Público (Mexico), El Tiempo (Colombia), Wingspan (Japan), National Geographic Traveler, AARP The Magazine, AARP Segunda Juventud, Pages.

Lola Brown, ASJA; contributor, New Zealand Bride & Groom, Scottish Bridal Directory, Australian Penthouse, Winds (Japan), Morning Calm (Korea), Classic American (UK), FHM UK.

Dan Drollette, ASJA; contributor, Australian Geographic, Cosmos, Asian Tatler, Boston Globe, Discovery Channel Online, New Scientist, Newsday, Science, Scientific American, The Sciences, Technology Review.

Amy Keyishian, contributing editor, Cosmopolitan (UK), contributor, Elle (UK), B Magazine (UK), Ladies' Home Journal, Men's Fitness, Chow.

Friday #04 / "She's So Funny!" How to Write Humor That Pays

Want to write funny? This seasoned and talented panel will show you how to develop your voice and publish your humor.

Moderator: Sandra Beckwith, ASJA; author, Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman?, Publicity for Nonprofits, Streetwise Complete Publicity Plans.

Judy Gruen, author, Carpool Tunnel Syndrome: Motherhood as Shuttle Diplomacy and Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout; Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Parent.

Beth Levine, ASJA; author, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Redbook, Chicago Tribune, Salon, Chatelaine.

Jen Singer, ASJA; author, 14 Hours ‘Til Bedtime; creator of mommasaid.net; Family Circle, The New York Times, Parenting, Parents, Woman's Day.

Carrie Thornton, publishing manager/senior editor, Three Rivers Press; recent projects include The New York Times best-seller, Why Do Men Have Nipples? and the follow-up, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?

Friday #05 / Pitch Slam

Learn how editors at top magazines develop story ideas in this interactive panel, where audience members get the chance —in 60 seconds or less—to pitch their ideas to a distinguished panel of editors. The panel will respond to each idea as they would in a story development meeting, offering anything from specific tips for honing it to (hopefully) an assignment to write it for their magazine. For those who pitch, it's a chance to get noticed by top editors.

We'll offer two sessions with different editors—to be fair to your colleagues, please choose only one and register in advance.

If you'd like to pitch an idea, you must use the sign-up sheet at the registration table.

Moderator: Rebecca Skloot, ASJA; contributing editor, Popular Science; New York Times Magazine, O,.The Oprah Magazine, Discover, New York Magazine.

Michael Moyer, executive editor, Popular Science.

Bill Phillips, executive editor of Men's Health.

Nicholas Thomas, editor, Wired Magazine.

Find out how to knock on Hollywood's door —and get someone to answer. Learn what Hollywood's looking for and what sells a screenplay.

Moderator: Stacie Z. Berg, ASJA; award-winning writer; contributing editor, Consumers Digest; contributor, New York Times, Marie Claire, Washington Post, The Scientist

John E. Johnson, executive director of the American Screenwriters Association.

Janet Roach, Academy Award nominee for adapting Prizzi's Honor for the screen; wrote the first draft of First Wives Club and others.

Alex Steele, Gotham's Dean of Faculty; editor, Writing Movies: The Practical Guide to Creating Stellar Screenplays.

David Title, head of development at Crossroads, a production company devoted to feature films, TV, and music videos.

Friday #07 / How Noah Builds his Narrative Arc ... Fiction and Nonfiction Narrative Techniques

How do voice, tone, dialogue, and even choice of tense contribute to the overall flow of prose? Three experienced writers share their struggles with developing an appropriate narrative technique for their recently published books.

Moderator: Cathy Crimmins, ASJA; author, Where Is the Mango Princess?, How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization, and the forthcoming Sick Mommy.

John Marchese, musician and award-winning journalist, author, The Violin Maker: Discovering a Centuries-old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop, and Renovations: A Father and Son Rebuild a House and Rediscover Each Other.

Joel Rose, founder of the literary magazine, Between C&D; author, The Blackest Bird; Kill the Poor, Kill Kill Faster Faster; and New York Sawed in Half.

Friday #08 / No Platform? No Problem!

Authors lacking a platform are having major problems getting books published. Not to worry. Panelists will spell out genres, topics and tactics which will grapple with or sidestep the no-platform issue. They'll explain how to pitch books to beef up a platform or launch a new one.

Moderator: David Kohn, ASJA; award-winning writer, collaborator, editor and book doctor. Liza Dawson, president of a seven-person literary agency which has sold nearly 400 books in ten years.

Janet Rosen, literary agent for 10+ years. She now represents numerous authors of a wide range of nonfiction.

Toni Sciarra, executive editor, Collins Publishing, acquiring books with a practical bent, especially health/medical/wellness and psychology.

Michele Wells, acquisitions editor, Alpha Books, an imprint of Penguin Group.

Friday #09 / Writing Your Life: The Art and Craft of Memoir

Do you think about writing a memoir? How do you know if your life is "memoir-worthy?" What's the difference between autobiography and memoir? Learn about the art, craft and business of writing memoir from three experts.

Moderator: Karen Baar, ASJA; author, For My Next Act…Women Scripting Life After Fifty (forthcoming April 2007), freelance writer specializing in health, social policy issues, and profiles. Sharon Bowers, partner, The Miller Agency; former editor, HarperCollins.

Mark Rotella, author, Stolen Figs; an editor at Publishers Weekly.

Anthony Swofford, author of the New York Times bestseller Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, and the novel Exit A.

Friday #10 / Make $4,000 a Week Selling Your Own

The road to making big Internet money is by starting and running your own Internet marketing business specializing in "information products." You'll learn how one freelancer went from zero to $16,000 a month in online revenues, while spending only 20 minutes a week. You'll learn three keys to a six-figure income, as well as how to set up an online store, turn your free e-newsletter into a fat and happy cash cow, nail down what topics sell best on the Internet - before you write - and much, much more.

Moderator : Terry Whalin, ASJA; author of book proposals that sell: 21 Secrets to Speed your success, has written 60+ books, and is the principal of the Whalin Literrary Agency.

Bob Bly, freelance copywriter, makes $600K+ a year, including $4,000 a week from Internet sales.

Are royalty statements Greek to you? Do the royalty provisions of your contract make you cross-eyed? Our panelists will unravel the mysteries of royalties from a variety of perspectives. They'll explain the basics, provide practical insights, and answer your questions…including a few you might not know to ask.

Moderator: Sallie Randolph, ASJA; freelance writer turned attorney and author of Author Law A to Z, A Desktop Guide to Writers' Rights and Responsibilities.

Vicky Bijur, prominent literary agent; former president of the Association of Authors' Representatives; former chair of AAR's Royalty Committee.

Jo Doyle, handles royalties for Holtzbrinck Publishing (St. Martin's, Henry Holt, Tor and many more) as well as Bloomsbury USA and Walker.

Gail Gross, accountant and managing member of Royalty Review, LLC, an accounting firm that audits publisher's books on behalf of authors, agents, attorneys, and publishers.

Friday #12 / Making the Connections that Count

Whether you're an introvert who would rather write than schmooze or an extrovert who loves the networking game, widening your circle of contacts is a sure-fire way to boost your assignments. This panel of writers and editors will tell you how.

Moderator: Fawn Fitter, ASJA; author, Working In The Dark; contributor, Fortune Small Business, American Baby, American Way, Marie Claire.

Jennifer Haupt, ASJA; contributor, Woman's Day, Every Woman, O, The Oprah Magazine, AARP The Magazine, Parents, Contribute, Teaching Tolerance.

Stephanie Abarbanel, senior articles editor, Woman's Day.

Jackie Dishner, ASJA; contributor, Arizona Highways, The Writer, US Airways, Arizona Republic, Toastmaster, Voyageur.

Michael Smolinsky, managing editor, Healthspring Communications, Inc.

Friday #13 / Making Hard Work Easy: Writing About Science and Other Difficult Things

Clarity? Accuracy? They're not enough to overcome your readers' fears of, or indifference to, synapses, fractals, and quarks. Distinguished science writers take you Beyond Clarity.

Moderator: Robert Kanigel, ASJA; author of Faux Real, The One Best Way, The Man Who Knew Infinity, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; director, Graduate Program in Science Writing, MIT.

Alan Burdick, author, Out of Eden, National Book Award finalist; contributor, New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Natural History; editor, Discover.

Robin Marantz Henig, ASJA; author, Pandora's Baby, The Monk in the Garden; contributing writer, New York Times Magazine; winner, NASW Science-in-Society Awards, ASJA's Outstanding Book and June Roth awards.

Jonathan Weiner, author of the Pulitzer-winning The Beak of the Finch; Time, Love, Memory; contributor, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine; professor, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Friday #14 / Breaking into the Holy Grail

In this lively workshop, panelists will offer tips for garnering the attention (and respect) of editors from some of the biggest names in magazines and newspapers. Learn how to accept "no thank you" and how to make an editor's job easier by taking an assignment from start to finish.

Moderator: Leslie Levine, ASJA; author, Wish It, Dream It, Do It: Turn the Life You're Living into the Life You Want; contributor, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune.

Suzanna Andrews, Vanity Fair contributing editor; formerly contributing editor at New York; other credits include The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Rolling Stone.

Fran Carpentier, senior editor, PARADE, responsible for "Simply Delicious" food column and popular annuals: What America Eats, and Live Longer, Better, Wiser.

Nanette Maxim, senior features editor, Gourmet.

Merv Rothstein, deputy editor of "Escapes" at The New York Times, has also written for Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado and Playbill.

Friday #15 / Moving Beyond FOB: Helping Editors See You in a New Way

So you'd like to make the leap from FOB to features, or from features to contributing editor, but you're not sure how. Is it all about the query? Is it about the working relationship? In this panel, we'll explore what it takes to break into new territory when you've been working with an editor for a while.

Moderator: Dara Chadwick, ASJA; Shape columnist; contributor, Parenting, Woman's Day, Family Circle and others.

Diane M. Byrne, executive editor, Power & Motoryacht; guest lecturer for NYU's Summer Publishing Institute; member, American Society of Magazine Editors and Association for Women in Communications.

Kim Kavin, ASJA; charter/cruising editor, Power & Motoryacht; editor, Voyaging; boating columnist for Palm Beach Illustrated and Naples Illustrated; contributor, Stratos, Elite Traveler and others.

Sharon Naylor, ASJA; author of 30 wedding books; contributing editor, Southern Bride; columnist for LoveToKnow.com, NJWedding.com.