Are you wondering whether you need a full manuscript for your book project or just a proposal? Curious about what kind of a platform is needed to sell a memoir, essays, or self-help at this point?
Join award-winning writing professor and author/coauthor of 18 books in 8 different genres, Susan Shapiro in conversations with top editors and agents who will reveal the answers to these questions and offer innovative strategies to lead to a book deal faster.
Free!
Panelists include:
Howard Yoon is a literary agent with WME based in Washington D.C. He specializes in narrative nonfiction, history, memoir, science, current events, politics and popular culture.
Cherise Fisher began her career as an acquiring editor at Simon & Schuster and Penguin, where she was the Editor in Chief of the Plume trade paperback imprint. As an agent, she works with novelists ( historical and contemporary), memoirists who showcase the diversity of human experience, and non-fiction writers who seek to provoke, inspire, and educate.
Dan Lopez is an editor at Counterpoint Press. He’s author of the novel The Show House (Unnamed Press), the short story collection Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea (Chelsea Station Editions) and has written for Los Angeles Review of Books, Time Out New York, The Millions, and Lamda Literary and the anthology With: New Gay Fiction.
Joy Peskin is the Executive Editorial Director of Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers and a Division Vice President of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. Her essays have been published in Salon, Glamour, Parents Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and Lilith Magazine, and a play she wrote was produced by the Hangar Theater in Ithaca, New York.
Brenda Copeland is an editor with more than twenty years’ experience at the big five publishers and over ten years’ experience as an adjunct professor in the graduate publishing program at NYU. She has published a robust list of fiction and non-fiction, quality books with strong commercial appeal, including The Good House by Ann Leary, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, and A Big Little Life, Dean Koontz’s first non-fiction book. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors through all stages of the writing and publication process, helping them reach their creative potential.
Susan Shapiro is the bestselling author/coauthor of books her family hates like Five Men Who Broke My Heart, The Forgiveness Tour and the writing/publishing guides The Book Bible and Byline Bible that she uses to teach her "instant gratification takes too long" courses at The New School, NYU, Columbia and in private classes online. Follow her on Twitter at @susanshapironet, Instagram at @Profsue123.
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