ADVISORY
Monday, August 17, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Edward Headington, Publicist
818.720.7181, edward@lapressclub.org
“Secrets of Book Publishing” Panel Workshop @ the L.A. Press Club this Friday Night!
This special event will be moderated by author and writing teacher, Susan Shapiro.
Hollywood, CA. The Los Angeles Press Club is hosting another great panel discussion this Friday night. Co-sponsored by PR Newswire, the “Secrets of Book Publishing” panel will be moderated by Manhattan-based author and writing teacher Susan Shapiro, who just published "Speed Shrinking”—and who’s probably helped more aspiring journalists and authors sell their work than any agent out there.
WHO – Susan Shapiro, author and writing teacher; Annie Gilbar, L.A. Times magazine editor; Betty Amster, Los Angeles agent and former book editor, then editorial director of Globe-Pequot Press; Ryan Fischer-Harbage, New York agent; and Amy Alkon, syndicated advice columnist, blogger, and author of the upcoming book, I See Rude People: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society (Nov. 27, 2009, McGraw-Hill).
WHAT – Press Club Panel on the “Secrets of Book Publishing”
WHEN – Friday, August 21, 2009; 6 p.m. – Networking, Drinks & Sushi; 7 p.m. – Program Begins
WHERE – Los Angeles Press Club @ 4773 Hollywood Blvd. (2 blocks west of Vermont) in the Hollywood, Los Feliz neighborhood; the program will be upstairs. Parking is free behind the building as well as on the street.
WHY – Sue and her panel will cover all the bases, from how to make your work publishable to how to actually get it published, taking into account what is and isn't selling in this economy, and all the new challenges of journalism and the book business.
FYI – Sue usually charges a lot of money for her courses but this special Press Club event is FREE to members and only $10 to non-members who pay in advance and $20 at the door. RSVP by clicking here. Complimentary beer, wine and sushi.
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The Los Angeles Press Club stands as an organization devoted to improving the spirit of journalism and journalists, raising the industry’s standards, strengthening its integrity and improving its reputation all for the benefit of the community at large. For more information, go to http://www.lapressclub.org/.
PR Newswire, co-sponsor for all Los Angeles Press Club events, is the global leader in news and information distribution services for professional communicators. For more information, go to http://www.prnewswire.com/.
Headington Media Group is a full-service communications firm dedicated to promoting public affairs in Southern California, specializing in image management, branding and public relations. For more information, go to http://www.headingtonmedia.com/ and/or visit http://www.headingtonmediacenter.org/.
Susan Shapiro, a Manhattan journalism professor, has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Newsweek, Salon.com, Daily Beast, The Forward, Village Voice, People, More, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. She's co-editor of Food for the Soul and author of the nonfiction books Only as Good as Your Word, Lighting Up, Secrets of a Fix-Up Fanatic and Five Men Who Broke My Heart, which was optioned for a feature film. She’s sold two novels Overexposed and Speed Shrinking which debuted August 3, 2009. She lives with her husband, a TV/film writer, in Greenwich Village, where she teaches her own "instant gratification takes too long" writing method at the New School, NYU and in private workshops and seminars.
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