Northern California Publishers & Authors

Program

8:00-8:30 Registration/Check-In

Holiday Inn Sacramento-Capitol Plaza, 300 J Street, Sacramento

8:45-11:15 Writing Your 1st Book (or 7th): Guest Speaker Bobbie Christensen

California writer Bobbie Christensen uses her own 10-step method to teach you how to complete your book, either fiction or nonfiction, in as little as two months or less! (Or in 50 weekends, if you have a full-time job.)

Bobbie Christensen is a former director of the Sacramento Publishers Association, current director of BooksAmerica.com, and the author of seven published books including such bestsellers and award-winners as Building Your Financial Portfolio on $25 a Month and her newest mystery, The Banker Chronicles.

11:30-1:00 Buffet Luncheon and Prize Raffles

Buy tickets to win a variety of great prizes!

1:15-2:45 Expertizing(TM): Featured Keynote Speaker Fern Reiss

Fern Reiss, author of The Publishing Game series of books, teaches you how to make you a name brand! If you want to be known as the expert in your field, quoted in the national media on a daily basis, then you need Expertizing(TM). Expertizing(TM) means becoming known, becoming “the name” the media and the public go to. Whether you’re a politician or an executive, a doctor or a webmaster, a consultant or a lawyer, you and your bottom line will benefit from Expertizing(TM).

Fern Reiss is CEO of Expertizing.com and PublishingGame.com. She is the author of eight books, including the popular Publishing Game series and Expertizing: Position Yourself as a Name Brand. She speaks frequently to conferences and corporate groups including Book Expo America, Bulldog Reporter Media Relations, and The American Society for Journalists and Authors. You can get more information on her books, workshops, and consulting, and sign up for her free e-mail newsletter on getting more media attention for your books and business, at PublishingGame.com.

3:00-4:30 11th Annual Book Awards

Find out who the winners are in this year’s awards!
Special guest MC: Gary Chew of Capitol Public Radio, KXJZ.

6:00-9:00 Media-Authors Reception

John Q. Ballroom, 16th floor, Holiday Inn Sacramento-Capitol Plaza

Join us in honoring the regional media, this year’s book award winners, and our local authors. Wine and hors d’oeuvres; light jazz/pop by guitarist Jon Merriman; the First Annual NCPA Media Award.

7:30 Special Guest Speaker: Author and Journalist Persia Woolley

John Q. Ballroom

Persia Woolley, author of three Book-of-the-Month Club novels, will speak about writing and publishing.

7:45 First Annual NCPA Media Award presentation

John Q. Ballroom

8:00-9:00 Meet and greet! The Reception Continues

John Q. Ballroom