Fall Conference 2006
Fall Conference 2006 was held in Durham, NC, at the
Sheraton Imperial Hotel. The conference is over, but we have
left this conference information on the site so that you can refer to it as a model
of what our Fall Conference is like.
Breakfast with Authors
Fall Conference 2006
Saturday, 8:00 - 9:00am, Breakfast with John Hart
Sunday, 8:00 - 9:00am, Breakfast with Valerie Leff
Join us for continental breakfast and "armchair interviews" with
North Carolina first-time novelists John Hart (author of bestselling
mystery novel King of Lies) and Valerie Ann Leff (author of Better Homes
and Husbands, now in production for an NBC dramatic series). Local media
will join us for the interviews.
Interviewer: WRAL-TV Anchor Pam Saulsby
Scheduled for: Saturday Morning
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John Hart is author of the bestselling mystery novel King of Lies. He
has held jobs ranging from bartending in a London pub to being a banker
at Wachovia. With a degree in French Literature from Davidson College, a
Masters in accounting from UNC-Chapel Hill and finally a law degree from
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Hart finally chose to pursue a career in
law. At a small firm in Salisbury, North Carolina, he worked primarily
on criminal defense cases. Shortly after the birth of his daughter he
was assigned to defend a child molester -- an assignment he refused.
Eventually leaving the law firm, he started writing King of Lies, and
sold the novel to St. Martin's Press. Hart is currently working on his
second novel.
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Interviewer: Ruth Moose
Scheduled for: Sunday Morning
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Valerie Ann Leff's first novel, Better Homes and Husbands was published
by St. Martin's Press in 2004 (paperback: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005)
and is currently in development for a dramatic television series at NBC. Her
stories and essays have been published in literary magazines such as the
Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, Chelsea, Lilith, Other Voices, the
Seattle Review, the South Carolina Review, the Sun and many others. She
is currently finishing her second book, Risk All. Leff was co-founder of
The Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-Asheville and served as
co-director of the program from 2000 to 2005.
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