I'm not sure which elementary school I'll be visiting during the day on Friday December 14th. But I can't wait to meet the teachers and kids.
Here is a bit more information, however note updates keep coming in.
4
pm Opening of Festival
“The Song of Dr. Seuss”
by the Virgin Valley Honor Choir
Directed by Jenny Bennett
4:30 Introduction of Authors
5
pm Keynote
Speaker “Changing Lives, Oe Story at a Times” David Farland
David Farland is
the New York Times best selling author of 50 books and this year’s winner of
the Hollywood Book
Festival for “Best Book of the Year,: along with International Book Award for
“Best Young Adult Novel of the
Year.”
He
is a past writing Professor at BYU where he mentored such international
bestsellers as Stephanie Meyer
(Twilight series), Brandon Sanderson
(Wheel of Time) and Dan Wells ( I AM
NOT A SERIAL KILLER). He is
currently the lead judge for the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future
contest, the world’s largest
science fiction and fantasy writing contest.
Dave has also
worked a s a videogame deisnge and scripter and a as a screenwriter.
6 pm Workshops
Library Lisa Mangum Building Better Characters/ Killer
Openings
Art Room VS Grenier Creating
Characters--4 to 6 graders
Music Room Julie Wright Writing
Romance—young adults
Classroom Betty Haines Getting
started to write—1 to 4 graders
Backstage Reading
time for pre-school children
6:30 Workshops
Art Room Roo Arledge Kanga reads--children
Music Room Charles Loomis Writing
adventures--teenagers
7 pm Workshops
Library JoAnn Arnold Using
Your Imagination—all ages
Music
room Karen Hoover How
to Become an Idea Factory--pre-teen and teens
Art
room David W. Smith Writing about Disney--children
7:30 Workshops
Library Michael McGreer Getting
You Work Published--adults
Music Room Terry Donnelly Writing
with Details—age 8 through teens
Art Room Shane Williams Writing Funny Poems—ages 5 to 7
Backstage Reading time for
preschool children
8 pm Festival
adjourns until morning
Saturday, December
15, 2012
10 am Introduction of Authors
11 am Elmo
Dance—Mesquite Toes Tap Team directed by Vickie Eckman
11:15 Speaker—Lisa Magnum
Best-selling author and associate editor
of Deseret Book Company
12:15 Annie
Dance by Mesquite Toes
12:20 Speaker—Russell Estlack
Best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize
nominee for SHATTERED Lives SHATTERED Dreams
1:30 Workshops
Library JoAnn Arnold Imagination--anf
age
Music Room Judy Leinberger Writing
Fiction Based on Real Experiences—any age
Art Room Traci McDonald Plotting
a Story--teens
Classroom Betty Haines Getting
Started to Write—1 to 4 grades
Backstage Reading time for young
children
2 pm Workshops
Art Room Roo Arledge Kanga
reads--young children
Music Room Michelle Jeffries The
Power of Persistence--teens
2:30 Workshops
Library Marsha Ward Encouraging
Family Literacy--adults
Music Room Amy Jarecki How
I Wrote a Native American Novel—any age
Art Room Donald Hendon Writing
Non-fiction—older teens to adults
Classroom Julie Wright Reaching
Your Potential--any age
Backstage Reading time for young
children
3:30 Speaker—David W. Smith
Top-selling
author of Disney mystery series—Hidden Mickey, owner of Synergy Publishing,
Speaker of the Year for USPA, Senior Editor of TennisOne.com
4:30 Workshops
Library Karen Hoover An Author’s Life
--any
age
Music Room Mercedes Yardley Writing
for a Magazine—any age
Art Room VS Grenier Using
Your Five Senses—teenagers
Classroom Betty Haines Getting
Started to Write—5th -8th grades
Backstage Reading time for children
Hope to see you there!