Seminar
Benefits
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- Network with faculty, colleagues and agents looking for new attorney-authors
- Learn from your peers who have made the transition from practicing
lawyers to international best-selling authors
- Gain practical writing experience
- Have your writing reviewed and critiqued by a faculty member
- Soup to nuts fiction writing: from naming characters to getting an
agent and getting published
- Gorgeous location
- Breakfast and lunch with Lisa and Stephen each day
- This is the only course of its kind in
the United States
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What
Last Year's Participants Had To Say About this SEAK program...
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- "An excellent resource for aspiring writers-rarely do people
who can do things, teach
it well, and Lisa & Stephen can and are entertaining at
it!"
- "Wonderful-and the agents were helpful and encouraging."
- "Motivational, energizing, inspiring, and informative."
- "Authors did everything to be accessible to the audience."
- "Breakout group with agents was great."
- "Authors were individually excellent-dynamic together."
- "Very professional and to the point-definitely for
lawyers."
- "Best time I ever had in a room with a bunch of lawyers."
- "Didn't want to take the breaks I enjoyed the sessions so
much!"
- "The intelligence and total lack of pretension of two terrific
people carried the program."
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Faculty
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Lisa
Scottoline, Esquire
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Lisa Scottoline is the author of best-selling legal thrillers that draw on her
insider's experience as a trial lawyer at a prestigious law firm and also her judicial clerkships in the state and federal systems of justice. Scottoline won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for excellence in suspense fiction for her second thriller,
Final Appeal, and her first novel, Everywhere that Mary
Went, was nominated for the same high honor. Subsequent novels, Running from the
Law , Legal Tender , and Rough Justice , were national bestsellers and received starred reviews in
Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. She is also the author of three
New York Times bestsellers The Vendetta Defense, Moment of
Truth, and Mistaken Identity - a book that was also chosen by the Coca-Cola Company in their campaign to promote the pleasures of reading (excerpts of the novel were distributed with nine million packages of Diet Coke).
Courting Trouble was published by HarperCollins Publishers in June
2002 and her latest novel, Dead Ringer, will be published in the
summer of 2003. Scottoline graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from its Law School, where she won the Henry Loughlin Prize for Legal Ethics upon graduation.
Scottoline's novels have been translated into over twenty-five languages. A native of Philadelphia, she lives with her family in the Philadelphia area and invites readers to visit her website:
www.scottoline.com.
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Stephen
Horn,
Esquire
Stephen Horn was born in the Bronx, New York, and received an
engineering degree from Rutgers University. He commanded an infantry
company of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. As a prosecutor in the
Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, he tried criminal cases and
participated in some of the department's most famous investigations,
including the killing of four Kent State students by the Ohio National
Guard and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The first piece
of fiction of any kind Horn wrote,
In Her Defense, became a New York Times bestseller and has
been translated into eight languages. In Her Defense utilizes
his experiences as a prosecutor and defense attorney.
Law of Gravity was released in the summer of 2002. Now in the
private practice of law, he lives outside Washington, DC, with his wife
and two children.
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Steven
Babitsky, Esq.
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Babitsky, Esq. was a personal injury attorney for twenty years. He
is the co-author of many works in the medical-legal arena. His is
the co-author of ten books.
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Beth Wechsler, MSW
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| Beth
Wechsler, MSW brings a combination of writing and group facilitation
skills to the workshop. Nationally known for her books about high-risk
youth, her stories have been published in Yankee, eBay
Magazine, The
Boston Globe, Consumer Reports and regularly in Cape Cod newspapers.
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Agents: Literary Agents who
work in commercial fiction and are looking for new attorney-authors will
be present. This year we have more than doubled the number of our
agents.
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*Regina Brooks is the founder of Serendipity Literary
Agency, a boutique agency representing a diverse base of award-winning
clients in the areas of adult fiction.
*William Clark is an Agent at William Clark Associates and is most
interested agenting mainstream literary fiction.
*Jeff Herman is an Agent at the Jeff Herman Agency and has brought
nearly 500 books to publication. He is the author of the industry
"Bible," the Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and
Literary Agents.
*Laura Langlie is a Literary Agent who is interested in
representing books that appeal to her as a reader. Last year she
sold 30 titles.
*Peter Miller is an Agent at PMA Literary and Film Management,
Inc. He is most interested in agenting action/suspense fiction,
thrillers, and legal thrillers.
*Colleen Mohyde is an Agent at the Doe Coover Agency in Winchester,
Massachusetts, where she represents an eclectic range of fiction and
nonfiction. Colleen was an Editor with Little Brown & Company
prior to becoming an agent.
*Jean Naggar is a Literary Agent at the Jean V. Naggar Literary
Agency and is most interested in agenting strong, well-written mainstream
fiction, literary fiction, contemporary, and suspense.
*Joe Veltre is a Literary Agent and Rights Director at Carlisle
& Company. Previously, he was Director of Development at Miramax
Films and Senior Editor at St. Martin's Press and HarperCollins. Joe
is interested in agenting commercial fiction and thrillers. |
Lisa
Scottoline, Esquire
