4th Annual Authors' Conference Review

Sunday, 02 November 2003 20:00

For the first time in 4 years, our lead-off keynote speaker for the Thursday evening banquet was a no-show. John Kremer’s connecting flight from Chicago to Philadelphia was cancelled and he had to take a later flight that caused him to miss the banquet. Fortunately, Dan Poynter was ready and able to fill in for John.

On Friday evening during the remarks portion of the program, Dave Giorgio, Infinity’s creative Webmaster, gave an amazing Power Point presentation of Infinity’s new and improved online bookstore at: buybooksontheweb.com. If you haven’t had a chance to check out all the newly added features, check it out now—you’ll be totally amazed!!! Also amazing was our Friday evening keynote speaker, Pat Lorenz, who dazzled everyone with her 10-step plan of simple ways to make your writing sizzle.

The highlight of the conference was the Saturday afternoon Ask the Experts panel. Melanie Rigney, former editor of Writer’s Digest Magazine, did a superior job as moderator as she kept the questions and responses from the experts aligned in time. This was the only panel where both Dan Poynter, successful self-publishing guru, and John Kremer, most masterful book marketing king, participated as panelists. You missed their playful banter and snappy answers to a wide variety of questions and you also missed an opportunity for an individual consultation—all of our presenters scheduled extra sessions.

By far the most questions during this session were directed to Jean Sifleet, Esq., CPA. Melanie imposed time-out from more legal questions directed to the attorney to allow other panelists to have questions to answer. We greatly appreciated Jean’s gracious participation in helping to make this panel presentation a sensational success.

Brian Jud was another popular panelist responding to questions about target marketing and selling books beyond the bookstores.

At Saturday night’s banquet, John Kremer was in rare form as he skillfully captured everyone’s attention and drafted them into Kremer’s army of book promoters. He provided a direct course of positive action that every author could follow to more effectively market their books.

Saturday night it rained. Sunday morning was sunny and bright as we gathered for a nice and easy wrap-up breakfast buffet. The first indication of a major problem were the drops of water falling from various parts of the ceiling. Installing new air conditioning units at the Sheraton that weekend had caused a serious leak in the roof. Then, suddenly, tiles from those parts of the ceiling came falling down. No one was hurt or hit by the falling tiles. However, breakfast was seriously disrupted and we had to move to another room to conclude our wrap-up session.

We have already started planning for our 5 annual Author’s Conference that will be held October 29 – 31, 2004, at the Sheraton Park Ridge in Valley Forge, PA. Mark the date on your calendar and visit AuthorsConference.com for more details as they become available. Take care and enjoy often...John

Infinity