Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - Interaction, brainstorming and networking are the buzz words for the 9th Puerto Vallarta International Writers' Conference and Book Fair scheduled for Biblioteca Los Mangos this weekend - March 6-8.

For anyone who writes, wants to write or just has an interest in literature this is an opportunity to brush shoulders, share stories and experiences and re-charge the batteries with an international group with similar interests.

Sponsored jointly by Puerto Vallarta Writers' Group and the library, the event will help writers get ideas from their brain to the printed page.

"It is my hope that writers who attend the conference will walk away with a new understanding of the writing process and a burning desire to run home, sit down, and begin a new story or a new book," says Caleb Pirtle, the Texas writer of more than 55 books who will give the keynote address at 7 pm Friday night.

This year's theme is 'memoir writing' and the agenda spans memoir writing, use of social media, song and poetry writing, dialogue writing and consciousness in writing.

Participants don't have to be writers to attend. An agent and publisher will also be attending in search of clients and manuscripts. Readers interested in meeting writers and/or just learning more about the writing process are invited too.

The book fair, from 12:30 onward on Sunday afternoon on the Los Mangos grounds, will also offer an opportunity to meet authors and buy their books.

Registration is $125 USD or 1,800 pesos. Registration forms and information are available by email at drjane121@msn.com. Payment can be made via Paypal or at the library door at the start of the conference Friday at noon. For those who just want to hear Pirtle, the fee is $50 USD or for those desiring to attend just Saturday or Sunday it is $70 USD. Profits go to support the varied year-round programs the library provides.