Here is our growing list of authors, agents, editors, publishing professionals and other presenters who will be speaking at the 2020 San Francisco Writers Conference. To find out more about each of them, click on the underlined name.
The presenters are in categories: Presenters (including authors), Agents, and Editors.
Please scroll down to see all of them.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Walter Mosley has written more than 30 books, including 11 previous Easy Rawlins titles. He is also the recipient of the O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He’ll be receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at our conference!
Brooke Warner is an author of several books: Green-light Your Book, What’s Your Book?, and three books on memoir. She is a sought after teacher at her company, Warner Consulting, Inc. Brooke is the founder and publisher of She Writes Press.
Jonathan Maberry is a multiple Bram Stoker Award winning author. He is a multi-talented writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He even writes for comic books (Captain America; Marvel Zombies Return). An advocate for writers, his Writers Coffeehouse is a free three-hour open-agenda networking and discussion session for writers of all genres and levels of skill in multiple locations around the country each month.
2020 SFWC PRESENTERS:
Nina Amir, author and writing coach
Kathleen Antrim, author, copresident of International Thriller Writers
Jim Azevedo, marketing director at Smashwords
Jordan Bernal, author and past president of CWC Tri-Valley Branch
Cara Black, bestselling mystery novelist
Stephanie Chandler, author and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association
Paula Chinick, author and past president of California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch
Amanda Clay, novelist
Mark Coker, author and founder of major ebook distributor Smashwords
Aya de Leon, author, activist, teacher
Laurie Ann Doyle, author, essayist, writing teacher
Taryn Edwards, Strategic Partnerships Manager and Historian, Mechanics’ Institute of San Francisco
Kate Farrell, author, librarian, storyteller
Grant Faulkner, author, Executive Director of NaNoWriMo, Co-founder of 100 Word Story
Joey Garcia, author, journalist, love expert
Cali Gilbert, author, filmmaker, photographer
Seth Greenwald, author, speaker, creativity coach
Connie Hale, author, journalist
Dorothy Hearst, author
Meredith Jaeger, author
Elizabeth Kauffman, indie editor and social media guru
Carla King, author and self-publishing expert, founder of Self-Publishing Boot Camp
Mary E. Knippel, independent editor, writing mentor, and author
C. S. Lakin, author, copy-editor, and writing coach
Linda Lee, website designer and WordPress expert
Jill Lublin, marketing guru
Louise Marley, novelist
Claire McKinney, PR professional
Brian D. Meeks, nonfiction author, fantasy novelist
Kira Ming, author, indie editor
Gina Mulligan, author, novelist
Anne Perry, NYT bestselling novelist
Lissa Provost, poet and author and SFWC Operations Manager
Melanie Rijkers, internationally known photographer and author
Jordan Rosenfeld, author, editor, and coach
Barbara Santos, author of Practice Aloha and two cookbooks, and marketing director for SFWC
Kevin Smokler, author, performer, and public speaker
Suzette Standring, author, TV host, syndicated columnist, national speaker
Alex Tillson, novelist, attorney
Kevin Tumlinson, Director of Marketing for Draft2Digital and host of Wordslinger Podcast
Monica Wesolowska, author, independent editor, teacher
Victoria Zackheim, author
AGENTS:
Karly Caserza, Fuse Literary
Michele Crim, Miller, Bowers, Griffin
Andrea Brown, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Karyn Fischer, Bookstop Literary
Rachelle Gardner, Books & Such Literary
Liz Kracht, Kimberley Cameron & Assoc.
Rachel Letofsky, Cooke Literary
Jennie Kendrick, Red Fox Literary
Dorian Maffei, Kimberley Cameron & Assoc.
Jill Marr, Sandra Dykstra
Laurie McLean, Fuse Literary
Mary C. Moore, Kimberley Cameron & Assoc.
Andy Ross, Andy Ross Agency
Katharine Sands, Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency
Emma Sector, Prospect Agency
Alec Shane, Writer’s House
Eric Smith, P.S. Literary
Jennifer March Soloway, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Gordon Warnock, Fuse Literary
EDITORS/INDEPENDENT EDITORS
Sylvan Creekmore, Wednesday Books/Macmillan
Rachel Diebel, St. Martins/Macmillan
Georgia Hughes, New World Library
Jennifer Joseph, Manic D Press
Brenda Knight, Mango Press
Laura Mazer, Seal Press/Hachette
Michelle Millet, Indie editor
Taylor Norman, Chronicle Children’s Books
Amber Oliver, Perennial/HarperCollins
Jill Roberts, Tachyon Publications
Jacob Weisman, Tachyon Publications
