And featuring 12 literary agents looking for new attorney-authors

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Plotting the Blockbuster Best-Seller


Executive Summary

The course is taught by two New York Times best-selling attorney-authors, Lisa Scottoline, Esq. and Stephen Horn, Esq.  Like all SEAK training, Legal Fiction Writing For Lawyers, will be hands-on, lively, and interactive. Attendees will have the opportunity to get all their questions answered. Attendees will also have an opportunity to get their writing and query letters reviewed and evaluated.

The faculty also features numerous literary agents looking for new lawyer-authors. Space is limited for this special workshop. 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

Seminar Benefits

� Learn to write from your peers who have made the transition from practicing lawyers to international best- selling
  authors.
� Gain practical writing experience
� Get written feedback from concise writing exercises dealing with conflict, premises, dialogue, and writing action
   scenes
� Have a portion of your manuscript (if you have one) reviewed and critiqued by a faculty member at no extra
   charge
� Soup to nuts fiction writing: from naming characters to getting an agent and getting published
� Have your query letter reviewed and critiqued (with suggested improvements) by a faculty member at no extra
   charge
� Have your query letter placed in the hands of numerous literary agents (if desired)
� Gorgeous location
� Motivation to write - Others have made the breakthrough and so can you!
� Enter the National Fiction Writing Competition for Lawyers and help launch your writing career
� Have your books signed by two New York Times best-selling attorney-authors
� Network with agents and colleagues at the seminar meals and during the private "book party" reception Saturday 
   night
� Small group breakout sessions with agents Sunday morning
� Breakfast and lunch with Lisa and Stephen each day
� An unforgettable, inspiring experience
� Actually have fun in a room full of lawyers!

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

"Unbelievably helpful"
"Motivational, energizing, inspiring & informative"
"Didn't want to take the breaks I enjoyed the sessions so much"
"Very professional & to the point-definitely for lawyers"
"Best time I ever had in a room with a bunch of lawyers"
"On a 1-10 scale, a 10"
"I learned more than I have in 10 years in a writing program"
"Well worth the time, effort & money"
"Best conference I've ever attended"
"Rejuvenated to write"
"See you next year!"

Faculty

Lisa Scottoline, Esquire

Steven Babitsky, Esq.

Beth Wechsler, MSW

    Literary Agents

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.

Sheree Bykofsky is the co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published and is a New York literary agent who represents some 100 book authors in all areas of adult non-fiction and literary and commercial fiction.

Liza Dawson is president of Liza Dawson Associates and represents a select list of fiction and nonfiction authors. The agency has placed nearly two hundred and fifty books in the eight years since it was established.

Jennifer DeChiara formed her literary Agency in 2001. DeChiara was a literary agent with Perkins, Rubie & Associates and The Peter Rubie Literary Agency. A New York City-based writer, she has worked in the editorial departments of Simon & Schuster and Random House and has been a writing consultant to several major corporations.

Tamar Ellman worked at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates prior to joining the Laura Dail Literary Agency in December of 2005. She is interested in acquiring anything she enjoys. Please see www.ldlainc.com for more information.

Sorche Fairbank started Fairbank Literary Representation in 2002, when she first moved to Cambridge MA. Since then, Ms. Fairbank has had the honor of representing and working with accomplished and best-selling authors such as Robin Moore (The French Connection, The Green Berets, Hunting Down Saddam), Xaviera Hollander (The Happy Hooker, Child No More), Edgar-winner and Pulitzer Prize nominee John McAleer (Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter, Rex Stout: A Majesty's Life), AP Journalist of the Year (Ohio) David Yonke, Jazz legend Benny Golson, Edgar-winner Rex Burns, and political dynamo, Charles Euchner.

Jo Grossman is excited at the prospect of discovering and nurturing new mystery talent through her newly formed Grossman & Holmes, a literary agency specializing in mystery and suspense. Her growing list of clients includes Kris Neri, Tim Wohlforth, Louise Crawford and Robert Weibezahl. (www.grossmanandholmes.com)

Esmond Harmsworth is a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency in Boston, Massachusetts. Harmsworth represents fiction and non-fiction. For fiction, he represents literary fiction, mystery, and crime. He is in charge of the agency's foreign rights
department and deals directly with publishers in London.

Meredith Hays began her publishing career at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, MA. She is thrilled to be a part of the Imprint team and looks forward to handling projects - both fiction and nonfiction, commercial and literary - that resound with a refreshing narrative style and a unique message. In particular, she is interested in sophisticated women's fiction (think urban chick lit), pop culture, lifestyle, animals, and absorbing nonfiction accounts.

Miriam Kriss is a literary agent with the IRENE GOODMAN LITERARY AGENCY in New York. She is interested in commercial fiction, legal fiction and thrillers.Her first solo sale was from a first-time author and hit several bestseller lists.

Peter Miller is an agent at PMA Literary and Film Management, Inc. He is most interested in agenting action/suspense fiction, and thrillers.

Susan Ann Protter is a New York Agent who is interested in suspense fiction including thrillers.

Katharine Sands is a literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency in New York City. She represents a wide range of authors in a broad range of categories including legal non-fiction, literary fiction, and dysfiction. She has represented the literary estate of Norman Wexler, Academy Award-nominated for Saturday Night Fever, XTC: SongStories, and Under the Hula Moon by Jocelyn Fuji (as co-agent). Her books have appeared in Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review.

David Hale Smith is the founder and president of DHS Literary, Inc., a literary agency in Dallas, Texas. Since starting the agency in 1994, Smith has managed dozens of authors' careers and made hundreds of deals for his clients, negotiating publishing contracts with companies such as Alfred A. Knopf, Algonquin, Bantam Books, Broadway, HarperCollins, Morrow, Putnam, Random House, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Viking Penguin, Warner Books, and others. Smith works with both literary and commercial fiction - especially mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers - as well as a broad range of nonfiction. His agency also sells film, foreign and all subsidiary rights.

Agent Comments

Schedule

MAIN CONFERENCE Friday Evening, October 20, 2006

7:00 - 8:30 Reception (Spouses Invited, Hors D'Ouerves and Cocktails provided)
Personal Success Stories: Lisa Scottoline, Esq. and Stephen Horn, Esq.
Group Discussion

8:00 - 10:00 Mechanics of Writing
Premises vs. Plot, Ideas and Where You Get Them, Setting and Atmosphere, Showing vs. Telling, Points of View, Writing Exercise, Group Discussion

10:15 - 12:15 Character
Naming and Describing Your Characters, Back Story, History of Characters, Motivation, Relationships, Conflict, Dialogue, Minor Characters, Evolution of Characters Throughout the Book

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) with Faculty

1:30 - 2:30 Character (Continued)
Writing Exercise, Group Discussion

2:45 - 5:15 Plot
Building Scenes, Developing Suspense, Pacing, Crisis and Resolution, Opening Hooks, Writing Exercise, Group Discussion

5:15 - 6:30 Book Signing (Spouses Invited)
Lisa Scottoline, Esq. and Stephen Horn, Esq. - Bring your own books or purchase Lisa and Stephen's books at the seminar

8:00 - 11:00 pm "Book Party" Reception (Spouses Invited, Entertainment Provided) Meet, mingle and mix with fellow attendees, agents and faculty members at a private reception in the hotel's Surfside Lounge.

8:00 - 10:00 Plot (Continued)
Subplots, Handling Transitions, Starting and Ending Chapters, Suspense and Surprise, Themes, Flashbacks, Writing Exercises, Group Discussion

10:15 - 11:15 Getting Published (Presented By a Panel of Agents)
Agents, How to Write a Synopsis and Query Letter, Publication Process, Manuscript Appearances and Mechanics, Ancillary Markets, Book Tours

11:15 - 12:15 Small Group Breakout Sessions with Agents
Each agent on faculty will run a question and answer/interaction session with a small group of attendees. Attendees should have their concise pitches ready.

1:30 - 3:00 Research, Editing, and Revising
How to Research Cost Effectively, Editing Process, When is Enough Revising Enough

3:15 - 5:00 Writer's Problems and How to Overcome Them (Spouses invited)
Writer's Block, Distractions, Fears, Leaving the Nest