Faculty List

Keynote Speaker – Best-Selling Author, Mary Alice Monroe

Toastmaster / Keynote Speaker – McNair Wilson - author, actor, director, teacher, playwright, Disney Imagineer, motivational coach/speaker, cartoonist, magician, and ventriloquist (retired)

• Andrea Brown, President, Andrea Brown Literary Agency

• Mary Beth Chappell of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Agency

• Lucienne Diver of Spectrum Literary Agency

• Beth Jusino, Alive Communications

• Emily Sylvan Kim of Prospect Agency

• Jud Laghi of LJK Literary Management

• Cameron McClure of Donald Maass Literary Agency

• Rebecca Oliver of Endeavor Talent Agency

• Jacky Sach of BookEnds, LLC

• Kimberly Whalen, Vice President, Trident Media Group
   

• Robert Cumming, Publisher, Iris Publishing Group

• Carol Ann Davis, Crazyhorse Literary Journal

• Jim Gilbert, River City Publishing

• Anne Hicks of MoonShine Review Literary Journal

• Rose Hilliard of St. Martin's Press

• David Long, Bethany House

• Carrie McCullough, McCullough Consulting

• Lauren McKenna, Pocket Books

• Jennifer Pooley, William Morrow

• Liz Scheier, Del Rey, the science fiction/fantasy division of Random House

• Kristen Weber of NAL / Penguin Group
   

• Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina Poet Laureate

• Cathy Smith Bowers

• Carol Ann Davis

• Richard Garcia

• Robert Morgan
   

Authors (click here for complete list)
 

• Ray Blackston - Contemporary Christian Fiction

• C. Hope Clark - Author, Editor and Founder of Funds for Writers

• David B. Coe - Fantasy / Sci-Fi

• Helen Coronato - Non-Fiction

• Carla Damron - Mysteries

• Mindy Friddle - Literary Fiction

• Karin Gillespie - Southern Fiction

• Richard Helms - Crime Fiction

• Gwen Hunter - Thrillers

• Joyce Lavene - Feature Writer, Romantic Mysteries

• Jim Lavene - Romantic Mysteries

• Lee Lofland - Thrillers/ Police Procedural How-tos

• Melinda Long - Children's Books

• Jackie Miles - Southern Fiction

• Robert Morgan - Literary/Mainstream Novelist, Short Story Author, Non-Fiction, Poet

• T. Lynn Ocean - Southern Fiction

• Richard Ridley - Award winning self-published author and Booksurge consultant

• George Singleton - Literary/Mainstream Fiction, Short Stories

• Patricia Sprinkle - Southern Mysteries

• Kelly L. Stone - Journalist, essays, fiction

• Ashley Warlick - Literary Fiction

Technology

• Marshall Turner, WebforAuthors.com, Turner Technology, Inc.