2011 Mini-Conference Speakers Announced
We are proud to announce that our 2011 Mini-Conference speaker will have two speakers - nationally bestselling author Anna DeStefano, and her agent, Michelle Grajkowski! The topic specifics have not yet been announced. Please keep an eye on this page for details, which will be posted as they become available.
About Anna
Anna DeStefano is the nationally best selling author of classic romance for Harlequin and Silhouette, and contemporary paranormal romantic suspense for Dorchester publishing. She's a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award winner, a Cataromance.com's reviewers choice award winner, and a Golden Heart winner. She's won the Gale Wilson Award of Excellence, the Maggie Award for Excellence, and been a finalist in numerous other awards, including the National Readers Choice awards, the Holt Medallian, and the Book Buyers Best Award.
Past President Advisor of Georgia Romance Writers (GRW), a group of over 300 published authors and aspiring writers that meets monthly in Atlanta, Georgia, Anna has successfully channeled her skills as a Senior Tech Writer into the more creative field of writing contemporary fiction. A GA Tech honors graduate with 10 years of experience working in Corporate IT, Anna applies the more analytical side of her personality to studying the craft of storytelling. But her imagination rules when it's time to let the planning go and write. The result—eleven award-winning novels published since 2004, three more scheduled for released in 2009 and 2010, and nearly half a million copies of her books in print in over 5 different languages.
Her interactive workshops on the writing process—plotting through character, improvisation (drafting), and rewriting—regularly attract standing room-only crowds wherever she speaks. Her series of communication workshops (taught independently or with her literary agent, Michelle Grajkowski, 3 Seas Literary Agency) are the latest addition to her teaching resume, and they're quickly becoming the most requested of her programs.
Anna has taught for years in adult education both professionally, as a technical trainer, and in the fields of grief recovery and crisis care teaching team coordinators and volunteers. She's presented her writing workshops to over 60 groups and conferences, including the Harriette Austin Writer's Conference at the University of Georgia, Romance Writers of America National Conferences, Romantic Times Reader Conventions, the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, the Surrey International Writers Conference and DragonCon. She also teaches half-day and one-day seminars to smaller groups interested in a more intensive, interactive experience. For more information visit her website.
About Michelle
From the moment Michelle Grajkowski first opened her doors to the 3 Seas Literary Agency in August of 2000, she has been living her dream. (What could be better than surrounding yourself with amazing authors and their exciting and imaginative books?)
Since then, she's successfully sold more than 350 projects into all the major publishing houses, and her authors consistently appear on the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher's Weekly Best Sellers lists. For more information visit her at the 3 Seas Literary Agency website.