Reminder! Sue Shapiro-A-Thon
My NYC friend, Sue Shapiro, (originally from the Detroit suburbs, like me), is largely or partially responsible for the careers of an incredible number of writers of magazine and newspaper articles and books.
I believe she still holds a regular Tuesday night writers' workshop at her apartment, free of charge, where writers and aspiring writers come to have Sue and writers like her friend Gerry Jonas critique their work. (Bio: Gerald Jonas was a regular reviewer of science fiction for the New York Times, the author of six nonfiction books and a screenwriter of nationally televised documentaries. He worked at The New Yorker from 1963-1993).
After one of my friends -- an events planner -- attended Sue's Tuesday night workshops, he started publishing pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and national magazines. A typical story.
Nobody's better than Sue on the topic of how to sell stuff -- books or articles -- and she's coming to Los Angeles January 10-13 on a book tour for her new book, Secrets Of A Fix-Up Fanatic, and a few Media Bistro seminars. The first one sounds particularly good. David Ulin is the editor of the LA Times' book section. Martin Smith is an editor at the magazine. And Betsy and B.J. are very smart literary agents:
Wednesday night 1/10 7 to 9 FROM JOURNALIST TO BOOK AUTHOR panel with guest star agents B.J. Robbins& Betsy Amster and L.A. Times editors David Ulin & Martin J. Smith at the Ted Ashley room of the American Film Institute 2021 N. Western Avenue $20 tickets at the door phone: 323-856-7600Thursday 1/11 from 7 to 8 pm SANTA MONICA BORDERS BOOKS READING of SECRETS OF A FIX-UP FANATIC 1415 3rd Street Promande Free & open to the public
Saturday 1/13 HOW TO SELL YOUR FIRST BOOK SEMINAR
from 2 to 8 pm w/agent Besty Amster in West Hollywood
$100 ($75 for members) register on Mediabistro.com
I haven't read Secrets yet, but I loved Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Love In Life But Sex, and Five Men Who Broke My Heart (one of whom is a rather famous evolutionary psychologist I know...who turned bright red, this summer at Penn, when I told him we had a friend in common, and who).
Sue's site is here.
Usefull information and all is good arranged. http://tinylink.eu/ste3e
Jordan at March 17, 2007 2:01 PM
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