Superconference Thursday

On the Thursday of Superconference, I was a co-presenter for two sessions. In the morning, I presented “An Adult Writing Camp for your community? You can do it too!”

Sharon Brooks of Kids Can Fly was the co-presenter, and Marina Cohen, one of our adult camp participants from last year, was on hand to answer questions.

It was a lively session with lots of questions. We’re running an adult writing camp again this summer from August 12 to 17 in Brantford. In addition to Kids Can Fly, Laurier Brantford is a co-sponsor. My goal is to get the schedule for these sessions finalized this week. We already have a list of 10 people who want to attend.

After that session, I autographed copies of Kobzar’s Children at the Fitzhenry & Whiteside booth, then met with one of the publicists for one of my upcoming novels. And then Valerie Sherrard and I did a presentation on the Do’s and Don’ts of Author Visits.

We had 100 people signed up for this session and it was very lively. To spice it up, Valerie and I begged some review copies of our own books from our publishers, plus we got a couple of Helaine Becker’s books from the Scholastic booth and coupons for Marina Cohen’s upcoming novel from Vanwell. During our session, we asked the audience questions and whoever got the answer first won an autographed book. It made for lots of interaction and loads of fun.

One thing I must say though is Valerie wouldn’t let me have the microphone very often. (Just kidding, Valerie!!)

Author: Marsha

I write historical fiction, mostly from the perspective of young people who are thrust in the midst of war. View all posts by Marsha