NYC FICTION NOVEL PITCH CONFERENCE

Hi all,

I've heard of a new novel pitch conference starting up in New York from a generous writer named Jerry Weinberg. It's called NYC '06 Pitch and Shop. The link's at http://nycpitchconference.com/pc-details.htm

This is a conference where editors are willing to listen to novel pitches.

It's extremely new and late for this sort of thing (film script pitch fests have been around for years), but better late than never. I understand the attending editors are all up and coming, and apparently into new things to bring the fiction business into the 21st century.

Some of the people there are:

The Editors at NYC '06

Molly Barton is an acquiring Editor of fiction for Viking, as well as Publishing Coordinator of Penguin Group U.S. (a position which allowsher to be involved with all PGI imprints).

Jackie Cantor is an Executive Editor at Berkley Books, a division of thePenguin Group. and will shortly be moving to Simon Spotlight Entertainment, where she will be an associate editor.

Tom Colgan is Executive Editor at PenguinAlexis Gargagliano joined Scribner in 2002 as the assistant to Nan GrahamAnna Genoese is an editor at Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, where she acquires for both the Tor and the Forge imprints.

Senior Editor Diana Gill is at Morrow Emily Haynes is an Editor at Plume, an imprint of Penguin Group.

Rebecca Heller a is an Associate Editor at St. Martin's Press.

The Workshop Leaders

Michael Neff

Charles Salzberg

Terese Svoboda

Tim Tomlinson

The NYC '06 Pitch-and-Shop Conference is sponsored by Algonkian Novel Workshops and the New York Writers Workshop.

JerryGerald M. Weinberg "Weinberg has written a clever writing manual. On one level it is highly readable and on another it is packed with excellent insights into how toeffectively perfect the writing process with less pain and much moreenjoyment." - Norm Goldman, editor of BookPleasures.com

Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone MethodDorset House Publishing ISBN: 0-932633-65-X1-800-DH-BOOKS (800-342-6657)http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/wow.html
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