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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 May 21, 2006 10:17 PM
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