The Writers Junction is excited to invite you to a...
Junction Function
What Every Author Should Know
Featuring Professionals in the Publishing Industry:
Panio Gianopoulos, Palindrome Media & Backlit Fiction
Michael Bourret, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management
Wendy Goldman Rohm, The Rohm Agency
Join
us for an insightful evening with fantastic professionals who will
share their tips, stories, and perspectives about the publishing
industry today.
Want to know how to build your platform? How to get an agent? What's the deal with e-publishing?
Send those questions you want answered to info@writersjunction.com and we'll address them at the panel!
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Wednesday, June 27th
7:00pm-9:00pm
$15 Admission
Limited Seats Available
open to members & non-members
1001 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90401
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About the Panelists:
Panio Gianopoulos is
a writer, editor, and publisher, and most recently the Co-Founder of
Backlit Fiction, a digital imprint dedicated to YA serial fiction.
During his seven years as an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, Panio
edited titles across nearly every genre, including bestselling memoirs
by Chelsea Handler and Anthony Bourdain, and the original literary
tie-in for the HBO series Deadwood. A former BCG consultant
focusing on the entertainment industry, he received his M.B.A. from
Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His novella, The Hunter, will be published in Sep 2012, and his short story collection, Luxuries, is slated for a spring 2013 release.
Michael Bourret joined
Dystel & Goderich Literary Management as an intern while studying
film and television production at New York University, and began at the
agency full-time in 2000. After ten years as an agent in the New York
office, Michael now works in Los Angeles in the West Coast office of
DGLM. There, he continues to represent his own list of bestselling and
award-winning clients while also aggressively pursuing new film and
television opportunities. Michael is always on the lookout for
exceptional writers with unique ideas, no matter what the category. He
is currently looking for middle grade and young adult fiction,
commercial adult fiction, and all sorts of nonfiction, from practical
to narrative. He's especially interested in food and cocktail related
books, memoir, popular history, politics, religion (though not
spirituality), popular science, and current events. And if you've got
something on bourbon or tennis, even better.
Wendy Goldman Rohm,
a New York Times bestselling author who has taught and lectured for
MediaBistro, Yale University, onboard the QEII, and at numerous
universities and organizations in the US, Europe and Asia. Rohm is in
the unusual position of understanding the publishing world from the
creative side as well as the business side, having worked in publishing
as an author as well as agent and development editor for more than two
decades. In addition to representing its author clients to top
publishers, The Rohm Agency offers ghost-writing services, developmental
editing, and collaborative projects between authors and subjects.
Rohm's publisher clients have included Random House, The New York
Times Syndicate International, Wired magazine, Tina Brown's Talk
magazine, Men's Vogue, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Financial Times
of London, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Conde-Nast, Ziff-Davis,
John Wiley & Sons, Jossey-Bass, The Magazine Group, and many
others. She's also been a literary agent and author for Sterling Lord
Literistic, New York; The Waxman Agency, NY; and Waterside
Productions, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.
Jennifer Rofe is a literary agent for Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and handles children's fiction projects ranging from picture books to young adult. Middle grade is Jennifer's soft spot and she's open to all genres in this category, especially the tender or hilarious. She is always looking for fresh and distinct voices; stories that simultaneously tug at her heartstrings and make her laugh out loud; and "adorkable" heroes. As for YA, Jennifer is drawn to contemporary works; dramatic or funny romance; and urban fantasy/light sci-fi. She's especially interested in mind-blowingly smart projects that are layered, complex, and unexpected, and she appreciates big, developed worlds. In terms of picture books, early readers, and chapter books, she is interested in character-driven projects and smart, exceptional writing.
BJ Robbins opened her Los Angeles-based agency in 1992 after a multi-faceted career in book publishing in NY. She started in publicity at Simon & Schuster and was later Marketing Director and then Senior Editor at Harcourt. Her Agency represents quality fiction, both literary and commercial, and general nonfiction, with a particular interest in memoir, biography, narrative history, pop culture, sports, travel/adventure, medicine and health. A member of AAR and Pen USA West, Ms. Robbins has led workshops at UCLA Extension, UC Irvine Extension and at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Fiction Workshop. On behalf of PEN, she has been guest speaker in numerous cities in the West as part of their Writers Toolbox program, including Seattle, Portland, Santa Fe, Dallas, Las Cruces, Flagstaff and Oakland. She was recently profiled in Writer's Digest and mediabistro.com. The BJ Robbins Literary Agency works with both established and first-time authors and is looking for projects of literary merit that are fresh and original.
Jennifer Rofe is a literary agent for Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and handles children's fiction projects ranging from picture books to young adult. Middle grade is Jennifer's soft spot and she's open to all genres in this category, especially the tender or hilarious. She is always looking for fresh and distinct voices; stories that simultaneously tug at her heartstrings and make her laugh out loud; and "adorkable" heroes. As for YA, Jennifer is drawn to contemporary works; dramatic or funny romance; and urban fantasy/light sci-fi. She's especially interested in mind-blowingly smart projects that are layered, complex, and unexpected, and she appreciates big, developed worlds. In terms of picture books, early readers, and chapter books, she is interested in character-driven projects and smart, exceptional writing.
BJ Robbins opened her Los Angeles-based agency in 1992 after a multi-faceted career in book publishing in NY. She started in publicity at Simon & Schuster and was later Marketing Director and then Senior Editor at Harcourt. Her Agency represents quality fiction, both literary and commercial, and general nonfiction, with a particular interest in memoir, biography, narrative history, pop culture, sports, travel/adventure, medicine and health. A member of AAR and Pen USA West, Ms. Robbins has led workshops at UCLA Extension, UC Irvine Extension and at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Fiction Workshop. On behalf of PEN, she has been guest speaker in numerous cities in the West as part of their Writers Toolbox program, including Seattle, Portland, Santa Fe, Dallas, Las Cruces, Flagstaff and Oakland. She was recently profiled in Writer's Digest and mediabistro.com. The BJ Robbins Literary Agency works with both established and first-time authors and is looking for projects of literary merit that are fresh and original.
About the Moderator:
Colette Sartor's work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Kenyon Review Online, Printers Row Journal, The Drum, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Fugue, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She has won a Writers@Work Fiction Prize, a Nelson Algren Award, a Fugue Prose Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, a Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, an honorable mention in Best American Short Stories 2009, and a Truman Capote fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she completed her MFA.
As a freelance editor, she has edited numerous fiction and nonfiction projects, including a creative writing textbook, and she served as senior fiction editor for the prize-winning online journal, Pif Magazine. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and very large German Shepherd puppy and teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
