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FRIDAY
5:30pm: Registration opens

7:00pm: Dinner and meet and greet hosted by Jade Lee & Elizabeth Hoyt

SATURDAY
9:00AM: Stephanie Bond, “New Genres & New Settings: How Dead Bodies lead to Romance”

9:20AM: Jenna Black, “Demons, They’re not just evil anymore: How Urban Fantasy is taking romance by storm”

9:40AM: Linnea Sinclair, “Science Fiction: Finding a Future in Romance Reader’s Hearts.”

15MIN BREAK

10:15 DISCUSSION GROUP TALKS BEGIN

GROUP 1 (40min)
Rosemary Laurey, Viki Lewis Thompson, Cindy Holby
“Nerds, Mythical Beasts, and Betas: The New Unconventional Hero”
A discussion on how romance characters are changing with new hero
types, and role reversals of hero and heroine. Do we like it?

GROUP 2 (40min)
Linnea Sinclair, Jenna Black, & BA Tortuga
“Blurring of Genres: The Good, The Bad, and the Just Too Weird”
A discussion of what we all think about new genres, new romance rules,
and what’s in the market.

12PM-1:30PM LUNCH

1:30PM FINAL DISCUSSION PANEL
Isabo Kelly, Linnea Sinclair, Julia Talbot
“Bringing it all together: Unconventional tales and the Changing Face of Romantic Fiction.”

2:30PM FREE TIME, ABT, Off site Book signing, etc

SUNDAY
9:00AM Sabrina Jeffries, “The Tale of My Addiction to Romances”

9:20AM Sara Reyes, “Starting a Book Club”

9:40AM Isabo Kelly, “Beings of Myth, Legend, and Fantasy”

10:00AM Book Signing and Raffle

12:00PM Good Bye!