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SUMMARY:Aspen Writers' Network Event: State of the Publishing Industry
DESCRIPTION:A literary agent for over 25 years\, with agencies like William Morris and the Gernert Company\, Stephanie Cabot will share her broad expertise with AWN while expounding on the current state of the publishing industry. She’ll specifically address how to market yourself as a writer and how to find the best possible agent for you. Cabot will leave plenty of time open to questions and has asked that members email a brief description of their writing to AW\, so she can tailor her remarks accordingly. AWN members should send those descriptions to Jamie Kravitz. \nABOUT STEPHANIE CABOTHalf French\, half American\, Stephanie was educated in Europe and in the U.S. where she majored in History at Harvard. Her agenting career began in London\, where she spent nine years at William Morris – London\, the last five as Managing Director where she built a list of international bestselling and prize-winning authors. She moved back to the States in 2005\, joined The Gernert Company\, and is now selectively adding writers from a variety of genres\, including commercial and literary fiction\, latte lit\, and non-fiction. She is especially interested in writers who tell original stories with strong narratives and create distinctive characters. Recent author publications include The Kindness of Enemies (Leila Aboulela – Grove)\, Magonia (Maria D. Headley – Harper Collins)\, Jade Dragon Mountain (Elsa Hart – Macmillan)\, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth (Christopher Scotton – Hachette)\,Vanessa and Her Sister (Priya Parmar – Random House\, We Are Called to Rise (Laura McBride – S&S)\, The Canterbury Sisters (Kim Wright – Gallery\, S&S)\, All the Old Knives (Olen Steinhauer – Minotaur)\, Hild (Nicola Griffith – FSG)\,  Paradise of The Pacific (Susanna Moore – FSG) and Babayaga (Toby Barlow – FSG).  In 2016\, authors she represents who will publish their work include: Mark Tompkins (Last Days of Magic – Viking Penguin )\,  Mindy Meija (Everything You Want Me To Be – Emily Bestler Books\, S&S)\, JoAnn Chaney (What You Don’t Know – Flatiron Books) and Martin Walker (Fatal Pursuit – Knopf). \n 
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/aspen-writers-network-event-state-of-the-publishing-industry/
LOCATION:Colorado\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:Aspen Writers' Network Event: State of the Publishing Industry
DESCRIPTION:A literary agent for over 25 years\, with agencies like William Morris and the Gernert Company\, Stephanie Cabot will share her broad expertise with AWN while expounding on the current state of the publishing industry. She’ll specifically address how to market yourself as a writer and how to find the best possible agent for you. Cabot will leave plenty of time open to questions and has asked that members email a brief description of their writing to AW\, so she can tailor her remarks accordingly. AWN members should send those descriptions to Jamie Kravitz. \nABOUT STEPHANIE CABOTHalf French\, half American\, Stephanie was educated in Europe and in the U.S. where she majored in History at Harvard. Her agenting career began in London\, where she spent nine years at William Morris – London\, the last five as Managing Director where she built a list of international bestselling and prize-winning authors. She moved back to the States in 2005\, joined The Gernert Company\, and is now selectively adding writers from a variety of genres\, including commercial and literary fiction\, latte lit\, and non-fiction. She is especially interested in writers who tell original stories with strong narratives and create distinctive characters. Recent author publications include The Kindness of Enemies (Leila Aboulela – Grove)\, Magonia (Maria D. Headley – Harper Collins)\, Jade Dragon Mountain (Elsa Hart – Macmillan)\, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth (Christopher Scotton – Hachette)\,Vanessa and Her Sister (Priya Parmar – Random House\, We Are Called to Rise (Laura McBride – S&S)\, The Canterbury Sisters (Kim Wright – Gallery\, S&S)\, All the Old Knives (Olen Steinhauer – Minotaur)\, Hild (Nicola Griffith – FSG)\,  Paradise of The Pacific (Susanna Moore – FSG) and Babayaga (Toby Barlow – FSG).  In 2016\, authors she represents who will publish their work include: Mark Tompkins (Last Days of Magic – Viking Penguin )\,  Mindy Meija (Everything You Want Me To Be – Emily Bestler Books\, S&S)\, JoAnn Chaney (What You Don’t Know – Flatiron Books) and Martin Walker (Fatal Pursuit – Knopf). \n 
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/aspen-writers-network-event-state-of-the-publishing-industry-2/
LOCATION:Colorado\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH - Mark Tompkins
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate AW Board Vice President Mark Tompkins’ debut novel The Last Days of Magic! A short reading will be followed by a book signing\, drinks and hors d’oeuvres. \nABOUT THE BOOKAn epic novel of magic and mysticism\, Celts and faeries\, mad kings and druids\, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth. \n“Plundering the treasure chest of human myths\, from mysterious biblical giants to ferocious Celtic faeries\, Tompkins has created a fantasy adventure with the shifting perspectives of dreamscape. A novel rich and strange.” \n—Geraldine Brooks\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Secret Chord \n“Simultaneously sweeping and intricate\, reaching all the way back to the Dead Sea Scrolls and all the way forward to now\, Tompkins’ amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue\, magic and mayhem\, faeries\, vikings\, legates\, kings and queens\, angels and goddesses\, this is one wild and breathless ride.” \n—Karen Joy Fowler\, author of the Booker Prize–shortlisted We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesMark Tompkins is the founder of the Aspen Writers’ Network and serves on the board of Aspen Words\, a program of the Aspen Institute. His poetry has appeared in publications worldwide including: Grain Magazine\, Parabola\, Photovision\, and Leading Edge Review. He has appeared numerous times on National Public Radio (NPR) discussing the creative process and been a guest lecturer on creativity at Texas A&M University. Mark’s black and white photography is in the permanent collection of the Chinese National Photography Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Born in Texas of Irish ancestry\, Tompkins lives in Boston\, Houston\, and Aspen. The Last Days of Magic is his first novel. \nPhoto Credit: Sigrid Estrada
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/book-launch-mark-tompkins/
LOCATION:Colorado\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH - Mark Tompkins
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate AW Board Vice President Mark Tompkins’ debut novel The Last Days of Magic! A short reading will be followed by a book signing\, drinks and hors d’oeuvres. \nABOUT THE BOOKAn epic novel of magic and mysticism\, Celts and faeries\, mad kings and druids\, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth. \n“Plundering the treasure chest of human myths\, from mysterious biblical giants to ferocious Celtic faeries\, Tompkins has created a fantasy adventure with the shifting perspectives of dreamscape. A novel rich and strange.” \n—Geraldine Brooks\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Secret Chord \n“Simultaneously sweeping and intricate\, reaching all the way back to the Dead Sea Scrolls and all the way forward to now\, Tompkins’ amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue\, magic and mayhem\, faeries\, vikings\, legates\, kings and queens\, angels and goddesses\, this is one wild and breathless ride.” \n—Karen Joy Fowler\, author of the Booker Prize–shortlisted We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesMark Tompkins is the founder of the Aspen Writers’ Network and serves on the board of Aspen Words\, a program of the Aspen Institute. His poetry has appeared in publications worldwide including: Grain Magazine\, Parabola\, Photovision\, and Leading Edge Review. He has appeared numerous times on National Public Radio (NPR) discussing the creative process and been a guest lecturer on creativity at Texas A&M University. Mark’s black and white photography is in the permanent collection of the Chinese National Photography Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Born in Texas of Irish ancestry\, Tompkins lives in Boston\, Houston\, and Aspen. The Last Days of Magic is his first novel. \nPhoto Credit: Sigrid Estrada
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/book-launch-mark-tompkins-2/
LOCATION:Colorado\, United States
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SUMMARY:WINTER WORDS - Geraldine Brooks + Tony Horwitz
DESCRIPTION:Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novelist. Her most recent book\, The Secret Chord\, is based on the life of King David\, and was published to great critical acclaim in October 2015. Brooks’ first novel\, Year of Wonders was an international bestseller and was translated into more than 25 languages. It is in development to become a film starring Andrew Lincoln. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for March\, which examines Little Women from a different point of view. Her other novels\, Caleb’s Crossing and People of the Book were New York Times bestsellers\, and she is the author of three nonfiction works: Nine Parts of Desire\, Foreign Correspondence\, and The Idea of Home. Earlier in her writing career\, Brooks covered crises in the Middle East\, Africa\, and the Balkans for the Wall Street Journal. In 1990\, with her husband Tony Horwitz\, she won the Overseas Press Club Award for best coverage of the Gulf War.  \n Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of several bestsellers. He worked for many years as a newspaper reporter\, covering wars and conflicts overseas as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. After returning to the U.S.\, he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America. His books include the national and New York Times bestsellers\, Confederates in the Attic\, Blue Latitudes\, Baghdad Without a Map\, and A Voyage Long and Strange. His latest book\, Midnight Rising\, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2011; one of the year’s ten best books by Library Journal; and won the 2012 William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography. In 1990\, with his wife Geraldine Brooks\, he won the Overseas Press Club Award for best coverage of the Gulf War. Horwitz has also been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, and a visiting scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. \nThe reading and talk will be followed by a Q+A and book signing. Explore Booksellers will have books for purchase at the event. \nWinter Words 2016 InfoPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-geraldine-brooks-tony-horwitz/
LOCATION:Colorado\, United States
CATEGORIES:Winter Words
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SUMMARY:WINTER WORDS - Geraldine Brooks + Tony Horwitz
DESCRIPTION:Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novelist. Her most recent book\, The Secret Chord\, is based on the life of King David\, and was published to great critical acclaim in October 2015. Brooks’ first novel\, Year of Wonders was an international bestseller and was translated into more than 25 languages. It is in development to become a film starring Andrew Lincoln. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for March\, which examines Little Women from a different point of view. Her other novels\, Caleb’s Crossing and People of the Book were New York Times bestsellers\, and she is the author of three nonfiction works: Nine Parts of Desire\, Foreign Correspondence\, and The Idea of Home. Earlier in her writing career\, Brooks covered crises in the Middle East\, Africa\, and the Balkans for the Wall Street Journal. In 1990\, with her husband Tony Horwitz\, she won the Overseas Press Club Award for best coverage of the Gulf War.  \n Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of several bestsellers. He worked for many years as a newspaper reporter\, covering wars and conflicts overseas as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. After returning to the U.S.\, he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America. His books include the national and New York Times bestsellers\, Confederates in the Attic\, Blue Latitudes\, Baghdad Without a Map\, and A Voyage Long and Strange. His latest book\, Midnight Rising\, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2011; one of the year’s ten best books by Library Journal; and won the 2012 William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography. In 1990\, with his wife Geraldine Brooks\, he won the Overseas Press Club Award for best coverage of the Gulf War. Horwitz has also been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, and a visiting scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. \nThe reading and talk will be followed by a Q+A and book signing. Explore Booksellers will have books for purchase at the event. \nWinter Words 2016 InfoPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-geraldine-brooks-tony-horwitz-2/
LOCATION:Colorado\, United States
CATEGORIES:Winter Words
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