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Not only does the conference offer a tremendous opportunity for aspiring authors to hone their craft, they also get to meet editors and agents; perhaps even hawk their next book. It's a weeklong intensive peppered with best-selling guest speakers talking about their latest books.

In addition to Bradbury, I'm also considering sitting in on Tuesday night to hear John Grogan talk about his best selling novel, Marley & Me. I'm about halfway through it now and have never laughed and cried out loud so much while reading a book. Marley was his beloved yellow Labrador retriever, and his stories about "Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog" are not only entertaining but written with such a wit and intensity you simply cannot put it down. And I'm not just saying that because I've also got a yellow Lab!

Other featured writers you may have heard of include playwright Nilo Cruz, who won the Pulitzer for Anna in the Tropics, Montecitan T.C. Boyle, who wrote The Road to Wellville, Tortilla Curtain and his newest, Talk Talk, and Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying and her latest, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life. Can you can tell me the line she is most famous for writing?