Speakers

Author of Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. Film version stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Sarsgaard.

• Featured Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
• Private Workshop Consultation with UCF Veterans

Author of The Man with the Fish on His Foot; Baja Florida, and Gut Check

• Creating E-Books
• Writing Crime Fiction

National Book Award Winner, author of Easy in the Islands, The Immaculate Invasion, and Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love and former columnist for GQ and contributing editor for Outside and Harper's.

• Featured Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing

NPR Correspondent and Host and Author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, a memoir.

• Featured Reading, Q&A, and Book signing

Author of Kindred Spirits, Superfiction, and Suzi Sinzinnati.

• The Next Decade in Literary Publishing.
• Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
• Individual Manuscript Consultations Available

Author of The Surrogates, a graphic novel, which became the hit film with Bruce Willis.

• Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels

• Book Publishing Process and the Realities of Trying to Publish a Book in a Recession Economy

• How to Launch a Career in Writing

• The making of a video star: Making the newsroom multimedia transition

• How to Launch a Writing Career

• How to Become an Editor (with Katherine Riegel)
• Reading, Q&A, and book signing

• How to Become an Editor (with Ira Sukungruang)
• Chapbook 101

Dean's Fellow in UCF's Creative Writing MFA program and a Managing Editor for The Florida Review

• Individual Graphic Narrative Manuscript Consultations (for beginners)

• How to Create Comics (AKA Graphic Narrative)
• Individual Manuscript Consultations Available

• Prize-winning Journalism in the Era of Austerity

• Screenwriting Basics (with Peter Telep)
• Individual Manuscript Consultations Available

• How to strategies for entering poetry book contests

• How to Write About Food and Make It Your Career
• How to Create a Web Presence as a Writer

• Launching a Writing Career