And featuring 10 literary agents looking for new attorney-authors

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 Screenwriting For Lawyers


Executive Summary

answered. There will be numerous writing exercises and attendees will have an opportunity to get their writing reviewed and evaluated. Legal Fiction Writing For Lawyers has been designed to give aspiring lawyer-authors what they have never before had: hands-on and practical training on how to write legal fiction and get published.

To deliver this training, SEAK has put together a world-class faculty. This faculty features two New York Times best-selling lawyer-authors, Lisa Scottoline,

Esquire, and Stephen Horn, Esquire, who will be teaching the course. The faculty also features literary agents looking for new lawyer-authors. Space is limited for this special seminar. It is sure to sell out. Early registration is highly recommended.

Topics Covered

• Personal Success Stories: Lisa Scottoline and Stephen Horn
• Mechanics of Writing In Depth: Premises vs. Plot, Ideas, Settings and Atmosphere, Showing vs. Telling, Points of View
• Character in Depth: Naming and Describing, Back Story, History, Motivation, Relationships, Conflict, Dialogue, Minor Characters, and Evolution of Characters
• Plot in Depth: Building Scenes, Pacing, Developing, Suspense, Crisis and Resolution, Opening Hooks
• Getting Published: Agents, Writing a Synopsis and Query Letter, Acquisition and Publication Process, Manuscript Appearance, Ancillary Markets, and Book Tours
• Writing Exercises and Group Discussion

Frequently Asked Questions

No - All you need is a desire or interest in writing.

Yes - This course will help both the new and experienced writer.

Attendance is the first step to getting started.  Don't put it off.

It will be lively, interactive, and fascinating.  You will "work" as much as you want to.

Seminar Benefits

• 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

What Last Year's Participants Had To Say About this SEAK program...

• "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."

Faculty

Lisa Scottoline, Esquire

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). Her latest novel, Killer Smile, is due to be released in the Summer of 2004. 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.

Steven Babitsky, Esq.

Beth Wechsler, MSW

      Agents:  Literary Agents who work in commercial fiction and are looking for new attorney-authors will be present. 

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.

Jake Elwell is an Agent and President of Wieser & Elwell, Inc., a New York Literary Agency. He is most interested in thrillers and mystery, but is open to anything that catches his eye.

Irene Goodman has been an Agent for 25 years specializing in commercial fiction, particularly all kinds of thrillers. She works with authors at all levels, from New York Times bestsellers to talented newcomers. Her clients include Linda Lael Miller, Debbie Macomber, and legal thriller author Rebecca Forster.

Esmond Harmsworth is a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. Harmsworth represents fiction and nonfiction. For fiction, he represents literary fiction, mystery, and crime. His nonfiction list is very varied, and includes biography, true-crime, popular science, business, media, politics, history, memoir, international affairs, and psychology. He is in charge of the agency's foreign rights department and deals directly with publishers in London.

Keith Korman is an Agent at the Literary Agency of Raines & Raines. Some of the books the agency has been involved with and instrumental into turning them into movies include: Deliverance, Die Hard, Cruising, My Dog Skip, How To Eat Fried Worms, and Forrest Gump.

Allison McCabe is Senior Editor at Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. She acquires both fiction and nonfiction.

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.

Tonianne Robino is an associate literary Agent with the Jeff Herman Literary Agency, LLC in New York. Robino founded With Flying Colors in 1991 to provide professional writing, coaching, and editing support for new writers and established authors.

Miriam B. Tager is an Agent at the Nancy Love Literary Agency in New York. The agency has four authors who have been nominated for the Edgars. She is eager to cultivate new writers who are dedicated to the mystery/thriller genre. She is a member of AAR.

Nancy Yost is a Literary Agent at Lowenstein Associates, Inc. in New York. She previously was an Editor with Avon Books and Putnam Berkley Group. Ms. Yost is interested in commercial fiction and thrillers.

Paige Wheeler is an Agent with Creative Media Agency, Inc. She is most interested in commercial fiction thrillers and mysteries.
 

Schedule

Friday, October 15, 2004

Personal Success Stories: Lisa Scottoline and Stephen Horn--Discussion with Authors/Seminar Leaders
 

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