Tag: conference
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The spectrum of sessions at the Writer’s Digest Conference 2014
Quick sidenote before I leap into things…my last three blog entries have been about the Writer’s Digest Conference 2014, and a few people have asked me why I’ve eschewed photos of the conference in favor of pictures of me and my wife traipsing around Manhattan. Short answer: the conference took place in a nice hotel,…
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Agents are lizard people
The last post was all about the Pitch Slam at the Writer’s Digest Conference 2014. Today, I want to write around the Pitch Slam and talk a little about the gravity of the thing. To refresh your memory, the Pitch Slam was an event where authors could pitch their books at agents for three minutes in…
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Pitch Slamming…not as dirty as it sounds
In my last post, I provided an overview of the Writer’s Digest Conference 2014. Now, I want to delve into its various moving parts, starting with its most significant, the Pitch Slam. You can attend the sessions without signing up for the Slam (and save yourself a hundred bucks), but I can’t see much reason for…
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An Overview of the Writer’s Digest Conference 2014
It occurs to me that my blog is, to this point, exclusively devoted to playwriting. The fact is, I’m also a novelist, it’s just that I have much more success with plays than fiction. Hopefully, that will change soon. Unlike playwriting, a career as a novelist is almost impossible without an agent. While you can often…