program sessions & Schedule

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Please note the schedule is subject to change. Please check back closer to the conference date for final program times.

Program schedule

8:00 AM

Registration opens

9:00 AM - 10:00 am

Welcome

10:00 AM - 10:30 am

Welcome Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 11:20 am

The Year in Publishing: Key Trends, Consumer Shifts, and Why They Matter, offering a data-informed view of what’s selling—and why

11:30 AM - 12:20 pm

Opening Plenary: How She Leads, Innovators and Disruptors, headlined by visionary leaders shaping the future of the industry‍ ‍

12:30 pM - 2:00 pm

Lunch Session, topic to be announced

2:00 pM - 2:50 pm

Power Pairs: How Editors and Agents Shape Books That Win, agent–editor teams share how they collaborated to bring books to market, offering behind-the-scenes insight into decisions that made the difference

3:00 pM - 3:50 pm

Everything BUT the Auction: Options, Exclusives, Pre-empts and More, exploring the range of deal strategies that drive how books are bought and sold

4:00 pM - 5:00 pm

Closing Plenary Session
Speaker to be announced

5:00 pM - 7:00 pm

Orientation Breakfast

Managing Your List with Strategy and Intentionality, reshaping, rebuilding and optimizing your list to support your career goals

Winning Before Publication, optimizing pre-order campaigns, laydown and demand before the sale date.

Behind the Bestseller Lists, a provocative and inside look at how bestseller lists are compiled, what they signal, and where their influence begins and ends

Impact Awards

Session to be announced. Please check back for details about this session.

Session to be announced. Please check back for details about this session.

Reception

Check out the program in 2025, 2024, and 2023.

  • Book Club Fiction
    llustrated/Cookbook
    Narrative Nonfiction
    SF/Fantasy
    Graphic Novel
    Picture Book
    YA Genre
    MG Reallistic
    Business/Personal Success
    Horror
    Politics/Current Events/History
    Romance
    New Managers

Small, peer-led discussions organized by genre and topic. You will receive a link to sign up for a roundtable upon registration. Availability for roundtables is first come, first serve.

  • YA Realistic
    Literary Fiction
    Memoir/Biography
    Thriller
    MG Genre
    Mystery
    Advice/Relationship/Self Help
    Romance
    Romantasy
    Mind, Body Spirit
    Pop Culture/Pop Science
    Christian Publishing
    Early Reader/Chapter Books
    Subrights

Small, peer-led discussions organized by genre and topic. You will receive a link to sign up for a roundtable upon registration. Availability for roundtables is first come, first serve.

Impromptu Roundtables

  • Book Club Fiction
    Illustrated/Cookbook
    Narrative Nonfiction
    SF/Fantasy
    Picture Book
    Advice/Relationship/Self Help
    Literary Fiction
    Horror
    Politics/Current Events/History
    Collaborations/Ghostwriting
    Young to Publishing

Small, peer-led discussions organized by genre and topic. You will receive a link to sign up for a roundtable upon registration. Availability for roundtables is first come, first serve.