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| Annual Literary Agents Roundtable | November
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| Over 120 attended this SRO event. Yes, we composed multiple photos together to recreate the scope of it. For more, including our Agents Dinner afterwards go to our photo album here »» | Details of the Event and the Agent participants here »» | |
| Jen Grisanti -- Finding Your Voice as an Author | October
2011 |
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| World Fantasy Convention | October
2011 |
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| Editing Your Work -- Beyond The First Draft | September
2011 |
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| World Science Fiction Convention | August
2011 |
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| GLAWS Annual Summer Party | August
2011 |
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| Dan Poynter on "Simultaneous Book Writing and Publishing --A Detailed Overview of the new Process" | July
2011 |
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| Leimert Park Village Book Fair | June
2011 |
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| MARLA
MILLER on "How to put WOW in your Query Letters to Hook Agents and Publishers" |
May
2011 |
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Marla
Miller is an author/educator and creator of "Marketing
the Muse" who shared the secrets of writing an effect query
letter to an agent or publisher. She invited GLAWS members
to bring query letters for an on-the-spot critiquing during
the workshop. 
| "Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC" | April
2011 |
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| "Writing For the Thrill of It" | April
2011 |
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| Guest accomplished murder mystery and thriller authors Morgan St. James, Michael Mallory, Christa Faust, Gary Phillips, and M.M. Gornell took a GLAWS audience on a rollercoaster ride of suspense, thrills, chills, and plot twists to help keep them on the path to writing a best-selling novel, instead of getting killed off in the second act.[ More »» | |
| "The Business of Writing v11.3" | March
2011 |
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| Attorneys Steve Fisch and Lisa Lucas with veteran CPA Joan Resnick discussed a range of issues from contracts to copyrights, the best ways to keep business deductions and properly file taxes.This distinguished panel of industry experts, including an entertainment industry attorney who has worked for major studios on over 60 motion pictures and series for CBS/Viacom and Fox, also answered questions on these and other related topics. [ more »» | |
| "The Fine Art of Researching
Your Story" Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Harry Turtledove |
February
2011 |
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 Distinguished
authors (above L>R) Barbara
Hambly, Sarah Beach and Harry Turtledove discussed
the Art of Researching Your Story in a presentation filled with
personal stories and ancedotes covering many novels.
GLAWS also presented Harry with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Pictured (L>R) are Neil Citrin, Harry Turtledove, Tony N Todaro and Ace Hall. [ more »» |
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| "Ten Ways to Improve Your Manuscript and Increase Your Chances of Getting Published" |
January
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| Maralys Wills (author of 13 books and a writing instructor for 25 years), spoke on “Ten Ways to Upgrade Your Manuscript” drawing on chapters from her book, “Damn the Rejections, Full Speed Ahead”. Also appearing was Burt Teplitzky who spoke on Sell it With Humor to show authors how to easy it is to insert proven humor gems into a presentation. [ Details »» | ||||
Jen Grisanti -- Finding Your Voice as an Author
GLAWS at the World Fantasy Convention
Editing Your Work - Beyond the First Draft
GLAWS at the World Science Fiction Convention
Leimert Park Village Book Fair
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC 2011
How to put
WOW in your Query Letters
to Hook Agents and Publishers
The Business of Writing v11.3"
The Fine Art of Researching Your Story
Ten Ways to Improve Your MS and Increase Your Changes of Getting Published
