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

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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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Secrets of a Scholarly Journal Editor
Presenter: Kenneth T. Henson, Distinguished Professor of Education at The Citadel's School of Education and author of more than 300 national and international publications, including 38 books

Friday, June 22
2:45 - 3:45 p.m.
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Get inside editor's and reviewer's heads. Learn how editors and reviewers think and then learn how to shape their thoughts and direct them to your advantage. In this presentation you will also learn how to avoid the errors that cause most rejections. This presentation is based on 25 years of service on editoral boards, 25 years of biennial surveys to dozens of journal editors to discover the pitfalls that trap most writers (all published in the Phi Delta Kappan journal), 25 years of writing for dozens of national and international journals, and from working with thousands of writers in over 300 writing for publication workshops on college campuses. You can get a view of the forthcoming 2007 article reporting the latest survey results.

About the presenter:

Kenneth T. Henson is author of more than 300 national and international publications, including 38 books (five on writing for publication) and two Phi Delta Kappa monographs on writing for publication. For over 25 years he has surveyed publishers of some 50 journals, gathering data to help authors. He has shared the results of all these biennial surveys in articles in the Phi Delta Kappan journal and through more than 300 workshops given on university campuses from coast to coast. Like his workshops, his own writing is practical and straightforward with a minimum of jargon and pedantry. His article, "Myths that Haunt Authors," was selected by The Writer magazine as one of the best articles of the year, along with articles by Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, Sidney Sheldon, Phyllis Whitney, and Dick Francis. Henson received the Association of Teacher Educators annual Distinguished Teacher Educator Award for the year 2000. He is Professor of Education at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

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