Bestselling authors William Bernhardt and Rene Gutteridge discuss the latest news from the book world, offer writing tips, and interview Susan Meissner. Susan is this year's Friday keynote speaker at WriterCon. She’s a USA Today-bestselling novelist with more than three-quarters of a million books in readers’ hands and in eighteen languages. Her critically acclaimed and award-winning works of historical fiction have been named to numerous lists including Publishers Weekly’s annual roster of 100 best books, Library Reads Top Picks, Real Simple annual tally of best books, Booklist’s Top Ten, Book of the Month, and Amazon Editors’ Pick. Her newest title is Only the Beautiful, which concerns a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter set against the backdrop of WWII.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Gretting Ready for WriterCon
The conference schedule is now on the website so you can check it out and see if there’s anything that might help you get where you want to go with your writing career. And after you’ve reviewed the schedule, check out the list of Speakers. We have more writers, more agents, more publishers, more providing services to authors than we have ever had before. www.writercon.com

Chapter 2: News
1) Woman Who Penned Grief Book for Kids is Charged with Her Husband’s Murder
2) TikTok Parent Files Trademark for New Publishing Venture

Chapter 3: Interview
In this interview, Susan Meissner will discuss:
1) why reading is essential to writing
2) finding women's stories in history
3) efficient research
4) getting to the emotional heart of relationship, and
5) what she's doing at WriterCon!

CHATPER 4: Parting Words
WriterCon. That’s September 1-4 (Labor Day weekend) in Oklahoma City. We have more than sixty presenters lined up, plus the best roster of agents we’ve ever had, including movie/tv agents, and publishers and much more. Join us! www.writercon.com