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2007 Presenters (Authors, Agents, Editors & Producers)

Jack Whyte, Author

Jack Whyte likes to think that he’s been around long enough by now to have done most of the things he ever wanted to do . . . most of them, but by no means all, for he still thinks he has much to achieve. The author of a nine-book, internationally published cycle of novels on the Arthurian legend, he has now completed the second novel in a successful trilogy on the history of the Knights Templar, and is working on the third while looking around for his next project.

In more than twelve years of attendance at this conference, Jack has become one of our stalwarts, using his many gifts and his passionate enthusiasm to entertain, enlighten and instruct an entire generation of emerging writers in the craft of storytelling.

Workshop(s)

History as a Platform for Contemporary Issues (workshop) Join best selling historical fiction authors as they discuss how modern issues creep into books about the past.
Situation Accelerated -- Raising Tension in Writing (master class) In this hands-on Master Class, best-selling novelist (and conference favourite!) Jack Whyte will guide writers through a number of sure-fire means to increase tension in your manuscript. But there is a catch you have to earn your way into this class.
The parameters aspiring attendees must write a 3-page scene, which must include the following key elements:

a street

two people

a long weekend

The scene must be three pages, double spaced. (At 10 words to a line, 25 lines to a page, this is 750 words maximum.) Submit the scene by email to contest@siwc.ca by September 15, 2007. All submitted scenes will be forwarded to Jack Whyte and he will select 15 writers to join his Master Class. (All writers who submit will be notified by September 22 , 2007 as to the status of their entry.) Those writers awarded a place in the class will be given directions regarding registration upon acceptance. Attendees are to bring a copy of their submitted scenes to class. Jack Whyte will chose one of the scenes to use as a template for demonstrating the means to increase tension in a scene.
Class is limited to 15 registrants.

SiWC Idol (workshop) How’s your pitch? Bring in the first 2-3 pages of your manuscript to this panel of agents and find out what the experts really think when they see your work, and if they can separate a published opening from the slush. All selections are read anonymously.
Breathe Life into Fiction through Character (workshop) Best selling author and raconteur Jack Whyte knows how to tell a story. Join Jack as he highlights the different ways to allow your characters to spring off the page and into legend.