Join us for the 2007 TAA Conference at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo in downtown Buffalo, NY, June 22-23

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Preliminary Conference Schedule now available
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Book Raffle
IIL Publishing, New York will raffle four books at the 2007 TAA Conference
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Coming to Buffalo? Put these two books on your reading list
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic)
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Mentoring Sessions
Several veteran authors have agreed to serve as mentors at the conference. Attendees will be able to sign up at the conference registration desk for 15-minute sessions with a mentor. A list of mentors will be available soon.

Roundtable Discussions Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Choose from 10 different moderated roundtable discussions related to textbook and academic authoring.
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Dinner at The Anchor Bar
Thursday, June 21, 6 p.m.
The restaurant where Buffalo-style wings were invented
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Buffalo, NY Waterfront Tour
Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Take a guided tour of the Buffalo waterfront
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Karpeles Manuscript Musuem and Library Tour
Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
View Walt Disney illustrations and documents, among others
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Social Networking Event: A Chartered 3-hour Dinner Cruise Aboard the Grand Lady
Friday, June 22, 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Four-hour Guided Tour to Niagara Falls (American side)
Saturday, June 23, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tour full.
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Free one-on-one sessions with an authoring attorney or literary agent
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International Editions: When Your Textbook Goes Global

Moderator:
Ann McIver McHoes, author of Understanding Operating Systems, which has been translated into five languages

At this roundtable, we'll discuss some of the questions that arise when your textbook goes global. What are the basic steps in the translation process? What are the contract and royalty issues? Validation concerns - how do you know the translated version is an accurate representation of your text? How will the production quality change when it's printed in other languages - hard or soft cover, colors, etc.? Will you have a chance to proofread the translated text? Join us. We promise to have many questions and at least a few answers.

About the Moderator:

Ann McIver McHoes has co-authored a computer systems textbook that has been translated into five languages - and Ann's name is spelled correctly in four of them! A passionate traveler, Ann has a keen interest in the cultural differences that often affect international communications. She is a career technical writer and an adjunct professor of Information Systems at Pittsburgh colleges and universities. For her corporate clients, she has written sales and technical literature for both domestic and international audiences, and her medical device manuals are routinely translated into 16 languages for global distribution.

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