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2003-12-23 12:50:03 UTC
Event: Getting Published: What Agents and Editors and Looking for Now
Description: Top editors and literary agents offer advice and tips on how to
get published in the competitive market of 2004.
Date/Time: Thursday, January 15th, 2004, 6:30pm to 9:15pm
Place: Small Press Center, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036,
www.smallpress.org
Fee: $30.00 (nonmembers); $20.00 (members)
Contact: Karin Taylor, Exec. Dir., Small Press Center, 212-764-7021, or
***@aol.com or ***@aol.com
Panelists:
James Fitzgerald is a literary agent at an agency that bears his name. He has
been an agent for four years working with authors such as Sonny Barger of the
Hell's Angels, Legs McNeil (Please Kill Me), Marc Spitz (How Soon is Never) and
Blair Tindall (Mozart in the Jungle). Prior to being an agent, Mr. Fitzgerald
was an editor at St. Martin's Press, Doubleday and The New York Times.
Moderator: Lloyd J. Jassin provides counseling to book publishing, television,
theater, new media, arts and entertainment clients on contract, licensing,
copyright, trademark, unfair competition, libel, right of privacy and general
corporate law matters. His practice includes drafting and negotiating
publishing and entertainment industry contracts, intellectual property due
diligence, trademark prosecution, dispute resolution and litigation. Mr. Jassin
has achieved national prominence with his book, The Copyright Permission and
Libel Handbook (John Wiley & Sons), coauthored with Steven C. Schechter. Mr.
Jassin is also vice-chair of the SPC board.
Kim Goldstein is a literary agent at the Susan Golomb Literary Agency and she
represents both fiction and non-fiction writers. Prior to that she was at the
Carol Mann Agency. She graduated from Princeton University and has worked at a
number of magazines including Rolling Stone.
PJ Dempsey is Senior Editor at M. Evans and Company. Throughout her editorial
career she has specialized in publishing non-fiction, mostly self-help and
reference. PJ began her career at Penguin Books and has worked at McGraw-Hill,
Prentice Hall Press, Wiley, and Crown. PJ is also on the editorial board of
Creative Nonfiction (along with Tracy Kidder and Annie Dillard). She also tried
her hand on the other side of the publishing desk last year when she got a
contract to coauthor The Complete Idiot's Guide To Horses with another former
book editor/colleague, Sarah Montague
Caroline White is a Senior Editor at Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin
Group (USA) Inc. She publishes original literary fiction and nonfiction
covering a variety of subjects including narrative and social history,
biography, popular culture, and writing, in hardcover and paperback. In her
role as an editor of the Penguin Classics series, she commissions new editions
and translations of classic works of literature and oversees US publication of
series titles originated by Penguin's London office. She joined Penguin in 1987
as an editorial assistant.
Moderator: Lloyd J. Jassin provides counseling to book publishing, television,
theater, new media, arts and entertainment clients on contract, licensing,
copyright, trademark, unfair competition, libel, right of privacy and general
corporate law matters. His practice includes drafting and negotiating
publishing and entertainment industry contracts, intellectual property due
diligence, trademark prosecution, dispute resolution and litigation. Mr. Jassin
has achieved national prominence with his book, The Copyright Permission and
Libel Handbook (John Wiley & Sons), coauthored with Steven C. Schechter. Mr.
Jassin is also vice-chair of the SPC board.
Cost of admission: $20.00 for members, $30
Description: Top editors and literary agents offer advice and tips on how to
get published in the competitive market of 2004.
Date/Time: Thursday, January 15th, 2004, 6:30pm to 9:15pm
Place: Small Press Center, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036,
www.smallpress.org
Fee: $30.00 (nonmembers); $20.00 (members)
Contact: Karin Taylor, Exec. Dir., Small Press Center, 212-764-7021, or
***@aol.com or ***@aol.com
Panelists:
James Fitzgerald is a literary agent at an agency that bears his name. He has
been an agent for four years working with authors such as Sonny Barger of the
Hell's Angels, Legs McNeil (Please Kill Me), Marc Spitz (How Soon is Never) and
Blair Tindall (Mozart in the Jungle). Prior to being an agent, Mr. Fitzgerald
was an editor at St. Martin's Press, Doubleday and The New York Times.
Moderator: Lloyd J. Jassin provides counseling to book publishing, television,
theater, new media, arts and entertainment clients on contract, licensing,
copyright, trademark, unfair competition, libel, right of privacy and general
corporate law matters. His practice includes drafting and negotiating
publishing and entertainment industry contracts, intellectual property due
diligence, trademark prosecution, dispute resolution and litigation. Mr. Jassin
has achieved national prominence with his book, The Copyright Permission and
Libel Handbook (John Wiley & Sons), coauthored with Steven C. Schechter. Mr.
Jassin is also vice-chair of the SPC board.
Kim Goldstein is a literary agent at the Susan Golomb Literary Agency and she
represents both fiction and non-fiction writers. Prior to that she was at the
Carol Mann Agency. She graduated from Princeton University and has worked at a
number of magazines including Rolling Stone.
PJ Dempsey is Senior Editor at M. Evans and Company. Throughout her editorial
career she has specialized in publishing non-fiction, mostly self-help and
reference. PJ began her career at Penguin Books and has worked at McGraw-Hill,
Prentice Hall Press, Wiley, and Crown. PJ is also on the editorial board of
Creative Nonfiction (along with Tracy Kidder and Annie Dillard). She also tried
her hand on the other side of the publishing desk last year when she got a
contract to coauthor The Complete Idiot's Guide To Horses with another former
book editor/colleague, Sarah Montague
Caroline White is a Senior Editor at Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin
Group (USA) Inc. She publishes original literary fiction and nonfiction
covering a variety of subjects including narrative and social history,
biography, popular culture, and writing, in hardcover and paperback. In her
role as an editor of the Penguin Classics series, she commissions new editions
and translations of classic works of literature and oversees US publication of
series titles originated by Penguin's London office. She joined Penguin in 1987
as an editorial assistant.
Moderator: Lloyd J. Jassin provides counseling to book publishing, television,
theater, new media, arts and entertainment clients on contract, licensing,
copyright, trademark, unfair competition, libel, right of privacy and general
corporate law matters. His practice includes drafting and negotiating
publishing and entertainment industry contracts, intellectual property due
diligence, trademark prosecution, dispute resolution and litigation. Mr. Jassin
has achieved national prominence with his book, The Copyright Permission and
Libel Handbook (John Wiley & Sons), coauthored with Steven C. Schechter. Mr.
Jassin is also vice-chair of the SPC board.
Cost of admission: $20.00 for members, $30