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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Click here for information from the 2006 TAA Convention:

• Articles
• Convention Q&A
• Convention Materials
• Photo Gallery

Archive of past conventions

Why Buffalo?

Some of you may be thinking, "why Buffalo, NY?" We chose Buffalo as the site of the 2007 TAA Conference primarily because of the high concentration of TAA members who live in or near the Buffalo area.

But now that we've chosen it, we've learned that it's also a great place to hold a TAA conference because of its mild temperatures. TAA conferences have been traditionally held in the summer months in very hot locations like Las Vegas, St. Petersburg, Florida, and New Orleans. Unlike those locations, with temperatures above 100 degrees and humidity that can leave you sweating minutes after leaving the hotel, the average temperature in Buffalo during the summer months is a comfortable 80 degrees. Which makes it much better weather for walking to Buffalo's many attractions.

What is there to do in Buffalo?
The Buffalo area has outstanding theater, a world-class symphony, extraordinary architecture (there are five Frank Lloyd Wright-designed residences within Buffalo's city limits), non-stop nightlife along the resurgent Chippewa Street, one of the world's top collections of modern art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (http://www.albrightknox.org), and great shopping at the area's many malls and along Elmwood Avenue in the city, on Main Street in suburban Williamsville, and in the quaint village of East Aurora.

Sports lovers will find Buffalo Bills football, Buffalo Sabres hockey and Buffalo Bisons baseball, as well as major college football, basketball and hockey.

Play golf at River Oaks Golf Club in Grand Island, N.Y. (201 Whitehaven Rd. (at E. River), Grand Island, NY 1407. Phone: (716) 773-3337

For people with an appetite, there are a wealth of charming bistros and restaurants serving local specialties such as chicken wings and beef-on-weck (sliced roast beef piled high on a kummelweck roll - a German Kaiser roll sprinkled with caraway seeds and pretzel salt and baked again for several minutes until crusty - dipped in au jus and spiced with fresh horseradish). Buffalo, New York is also the home of Buffalo Wings. In 1964, Terressa Bellisimo made an impromptu snack for some patrons who were enjoying an evening at the Anchor Bar, her family's bar and restaurant. She took some chicken wings that were left over from the day, deep fried them, added some hot sauce and served them crisp and hot. Her friends loved them and gradually other restaurants throughout the city - and eventually the world - began serving this new delicacy. You can still find Buffalo Wings at the Anchor Bar at 1047 Main Street in Buffalo.

Nearby attractions include:

• Niagara Falls
  http://www.niagarafallsstatepark.com
• Karpeles Manuscript Museum and Library
  http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/index.html
• Six Flags of Daren Lake, New York's largest amusement park
  http://www.sixflags.com/parks/darienlake
• the "Grand Canyon of the East" at Letchworth State Park
  http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=12
• the internationally renowned Victorian Village at the Chautauqua Institution
• the Erie Canal
• the oldest buildings on the Great Lakes at Old Fort Niagara
  https://oldfortniagara.org
• Genesee Country Village and Museum, the country's third-largest living history museum
  http://www.gcv.org

Buffalo is strategically located at the confluence of Lake Erie, the Buffalo River and the Niagara River. It's importance as both a lakefront and riverfront town was immeasurably enhanced with the creation of the Erie Canal in 1825. This historic waterway made Buffalo the gateway to the American west for millions of settlers. Today, millions of tourists journey to Buffalo to see what is undoubtedly the world's premier water attraction Niagara Falls. Buffalo is 20 minutes from the Falls. Once you get to the Falls, you can cross the border into Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada.