Write from your gut

"Tell your best story from your gut, if it resonates with reality as you want to project it -- do not be bothered by the noise made by topics that sell millions of dollars, I call that obsession," LeRoy stressed.

More than 500 writers thronged the three-day event that begun last week Friday and it is a platform where book deals are sealed and publishing contracts signed or manuscripts solicited for possible publication by literary agents and publishers.