Writes Joe Meyers in The Connecticut Post Online

Whether your dream is to write a novel, a Hollywood movie or a newspaper op-ed piece, experts in those writing fields and many more will be available at the fourth annual Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association gathering set for May 12 at the Hartford Steam Boiler Conference Facilities.

The conference, which CAPA calls "Professional Development Day," will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and include 15 sessions on every aspect of writing from putting the earliest ideas down on paper to finding an agent and marketing a finished book.

CAPA was founded in 1994 to help professionals and aspiring writers "improve their writing skills and increase the visibility and sales of their books and articles by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information.

Members of CAPA hold monthly meetings throughout the state, and gather once a year for the daylong conference the group calls "CAPA University."

CAPA also sponsors a mentor program in which aspiring authors are assigned to published writers.

The organization arranges group book signings at libraries and bookstores which are designed to stir up more public interest than single-author events.

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CAPA U will offer 15 breakout sessions for marketing, publishing, fiction, non-fiction and a specialty track. NY Literary Agents covering: adult fiction, adult nonfiction, children's fiction, children's nonfiction and screen/play writing will appear on an agent's panel for open questions. Lunch sitting will be split into table-topics of interest. Also fifteen minute private consultations will be scheduled throughout the conference.

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