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Tue | May 23, 2006
Skills Only Found in China
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Sun | May 21, 2006
May 21 meeting & SAWCC festival
date: Sunday, May 21
time: 1:00 pm
place: New York Public Library, 5th Av. and 41st St.
attendees: Tsz Fong, John Ming Lee, Chee-Ming Hung, Lily Huang
We talked about the SAWCC festival. Tsz and I went to the panels entitled "The Business of Writing" and "Making a Writing Life"
highlights from Writing Life:
What I got from this was impressions what a freelancer reporter must be like, what an academic/ professor must be like. I thought this was the better panel and yet I couldn't say now what it was about. I missed the first hour, so I didn't hear the autobiographies they said of themselves at the beginning.
highlights from Business of Writing:
Ayesha Pande, the agent there, conveniently outlined the "steps" you must take before getting an agent:
- create a body of work, MFA optional
- establish a publishing history
- write a collection of stories and a novel
- get an agent
- read acknowledgments of books you can position yourself next to, find the name of the agent there.
- online research
Then the panel discussion hovered around the publishing company and book covers. Surprisingly, Barnes and Noble can have a say in about the cover of a book. Mostly it is up to the publisher and author (or the agent speaking on behalf of the author).
We wrote for an hour, then Chee-Ming and I read.
Posted by Lily at 10:17 PM | Comments (0)
Thu | May 04, 2006
next meeting
The next meeting will be on Sunday, May 21st, at 1pm, at the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Science Library (on 5th Avenue and 42nd St.)
Posted by Lily at 03:06 PM
