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7A: Writing Like an Editor
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Editor, Atria Books
Rakesh Satyal is a Senior Editor at Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. He began his career at Random House (at what was then known as the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group), then spent five years at HarperCollins. He has acquired and edited numerous New York Times bestsellers...
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7C: Rethinking Horror
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Author, THE NIGHT OCEAN
Paul La Farge is the author of four novels: The Night Ocean (Penguin Press, March 2017); The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999), Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001), and Luminous Airplanes (FSG, 2011); and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's Books, 2005...
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7D: The Sublime Possibilities of Historical Fiction
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Author, VALIANT GENTLEMEN
Sabina Murray was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1968. Her mother, a Filipina from Manila, and her father a former Jesuit scholastic turned anthropologist from Boston, met in Washington DC, where both were pursuing graduate degrees. At the age of two she moved to Perth with her...
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7E: How To Write A Kick-Ass Essay
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Author, THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST
Ann Hood is the bestselling author of fourteen novels, including The Book That Matters Most, The Obituary Writer, and The Knitting Circle; three memoirs, including Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice and named one of the top ten non-fiction...
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7F: The 3-Step Formula for Building an Author Platform
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Founder & President, FSB Associates and Pub Site
Fauzia Burke is a book marketing expert and pioneer of online book publicity. As the founder and president of
FSB Associates, she has spent more than 25 years publicizing books by bestselling authors such as Alan Alda, Arianna Huffington, Deepak Chopra, Sonya Renee Taylor, Ken Bl...
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7G: Developing Your Memoir
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Author, THE NARROW DOOR
Paul Lisicky is the author of five books: The Narrow Door, Unbuilt Projects, The Burning House, Famous Builder, and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, Fence, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. A...
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7H: Navigating Book Publicity: From Galleys through Post-Publication
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Publicist, Broadside PR
Whitney Peeling's in-house publicity career began (while the ink on her college diploma dried) at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, continued at W.W. Norton, and concluded at PublicAffairs, where she was the Director of Publicity for four years. Travel throughout India; work with one of...
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Co-founder, Broadside PR
Michael Taeckens' twenty-one years in the publishing industry include roles as the long-time publicity director at Algonquin Books and the marketing director at Graywolf Press; since 2014 he has been working independently. Past and present clients include the Whiting Foundation/Whiting...
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7J: How I Write: Finding the Right Time, Place, Music and Drink
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Author, THE THIRD HOTEL
Laura van den Berg is the author of five works of fiction, including THE THIRD HOTEL, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, & a literature...
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Director of Author and Publishing Relations, Amazon.com
Neal is a former journalist and the author of four nonfiction books, most recently "A Curious Man: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert ‘Believe It or Not’ Ripley" (a PEN Center USA Literary Award finalist in nonfiction). Neal has appeared on NPR, PBS, The Daily Show, CNN, The...
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Author, 13 HOURS: THE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN BENGHAZI
Mitchell Zuckoff is the Sumner Redstone Professor of Narrative Studies at Boston University and the author of seven nonfiction books. His most recent book, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller and the basis of the...
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Saturday May 6, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Cabot Room
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7K: Sell Your Story in a Single Sentence
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Film Producer/Director, Vast Entertainment
Lane Shefter Bishop is a multi-award winning producer/director who has received numerous accolades for her work including an EMMY, six Telly Awards, a Videographer Award, three Communicator Awards, a Sherril C. Corwin Award, an Aurora Award, a Davey Award, a New York Festivals Award...
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7M: Structuring the Novel
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Adam Stumacher's fiction has appeared in Granta, Narrative, The Kenyon Review,The Sun, TriQuarterly, and others, was anthologized in Best New American Voices,and won the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. His nonfiction has appeared in theNew York Times and he is a regular contributor...
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