Book Festival Schedule

Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003 | 8:16 a.m.

The scheduled for the Vegas Valley Book Festival:

Thursday

Unveiling the Truth about Romance Stories, 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Thursday, Paseo Verde Library conference room, 280 S. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson.

Writing Just for Sell of It: Marketing yourself and your writing, noon to 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Paseo Verde Library.

The Writers Life: A discussion with poet Marvin Bell, 1:30 p.m to 2:45 p.m. Thursday, Paseo Verde Library.

Writing for Prime Time, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Paseo Verde Library.

Dead Man Poems, Marvin Bell reading, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday, UNLV Barrick Museum Auditorium.

Friday

So You Want to be in Pictures: screenwriting discussion with Bill Rabkin and Lee Goldberg, 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., Friday, Paseo Verde Library conference room.

What's so Funny About That?: Kevin Murphy and Mike Nelson talk about humor writing, noon to 1:15 p.m., Friday, Paseo Verde Library conference room.

The Suspense is Killing Me!: tips on mystery writing with Tod Goldberg and Jerrilyn Farmer, 1:30 to 2:15 p.m., Paseo Verde Library.

Alternative Publishing Options: Learn print-on-demand, self publishing and e-books, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Paseo Verde Library.

Ted Rall: To Afghanistan and Back, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Community College of Southern Nevada's West Charleston Campus, 6375 W. Charleston Blvd. (D building auditorium).

Ron Carlson: Short Stories, Big Ideas (reading and Q and A), 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, UNLV Barrick Museum Auditorium.

Nancy Robinson Masters: Using Literature to Motivate Reluctant Readers and Writers, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, Paseo Verde Library reading room.

Rudolfo Anaya, keynote address: 7 p.m. Friday, UNLV Artemus Ham Hall.

Saturday

Liberty Point Complex in Henderson:

Poetry Tent, outdoor program:

Bruce Isaacson, 10:30 a.m.

Jarrett Keene, 11 a.m.

Steve Abee, 11:30 a.m.

Catherine Daly, 12:30 p.m.

Henderson "Under 21" slam poets, 1:30 p.m.

Ken Waldman, 2 p.m.

Open microphone, 3 p.m.

Children's Stage, outdoor program:

Writer, educator Nancy Robinson, 10 a.m.

Navajo writer Baje Whitethorne, 10:30 p.m.

Comedian Mac King, 11 p.m.

The StoryGenie, noon.

Newberry Award winner Richard Peck, 12:30 p.m.

Young adult author David Winkler, 1:30 p.m.

Panels, Henderson Multi-Generational Center rooms A and B:

Let's Get Real: Life Beyond the Strip (Robert Fielden, Everett Overstreet, Geoff Schumacher, Hal Rothman), 10 a.m.

Is Las Vegas Really Different?: Understandings of Community in the Urban West (John L. Smith, Eugene Moehring, Marc Cooper, David Schwartz), 11:15 a.m.

How Can You Live in A Metaphor?: Las Vegas as Symbol in Literature and Film (Michael Green, Dayvid Figler, Lee Barnes, Gary Hauslauden), 12:30 p.m.

Chicano Literature Today (Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Richard Yanez, Jose Skinner), 2:15 p.m.

Multi-Generational Center room C:

Writing Between the Lines: Insiders and Outsiders in the Stories of Jose Skinner, Richard Yanez and Rob Roberge, 12:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Paseo Verde Library conference room

Mysterious Women: Jerrilyn Farmer, Lucha Corpi, 10 a.m.

Brevity is the Soul of Wit; the short stories of Mary Yukari Waters, Aimee Bender and Ron Carlson, 11:15 a.m.

Revenge of the Moviegoers: A satiric look at American movies and culture with "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" alumni Kevin Murphy and Mike Nelson, 12:30 p.m.

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: Political satire with cartoonist Dan Perkins, 1:45 p.m.

Search and Destroy: Questioning Authority for a Living: Editorial Cartooning and Commentary with Ted Rall, 3:15 p.m.

-- Las Vegas Sun