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| Teacher-writer Cathy Hankla addresses at attentive crowd at the opening session. |
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| Roanoke writer Roland Lazenby (who has 60 books) gives the keynote. |
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| Sarah Beth and Rob Jones talk to writer Neil Sagebiel of Floyd. |
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| Free lunch draws a crowd. |
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| Scholarship winners Laura Hawley (left, first) and Ashley Westmoreland flank their new favorite editr. |
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| Hollins President Nancy Gray. |
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| Roland and Cathy after their talks. Pretty people. |
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| Cathy gets help with her presentation from Vanna Smith. |
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| Some news guys just don't know when to quit. |
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| Lovely Laura Hawley accepts scholarship ... |
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| ... from last year's winner Elizabeth Markham. |
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| In the peanut gallery were Susan Ayers (left) and Janeson Keeley chatting. |
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| Roland swears it was this big. |
The conference sold out for the second straight year and gets into its 23 classes and roundtable discussion tomorrow. This is one of the truly fun events of the year for me. See you there.
(Photos by Rob Jones of No B.S. in Floyd and me. Thanks, Rob.)
Nice, it truly was a great day Saturday. There was a lot of focusing on moving along with technology and it gave all of us the information to do so.
ReplyDeleteThis was the best conference yet. I loved the sessions on technology, writing mysteries, and letting false artifacts masquerade as a short story. Pages of notes, too many thoughts to keep in my mind, too many ideas on how to improve my writing and self-branding. Keep this up, Dan, and I just might have to come back next year.
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