How To Use Your Expertise to Publish Books and Magazine Articles

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Following this course, you will be able to:

Define your nonfiction goals
Pick a legal subject and turn it into a book
Understand the nonfiction publishing business
Choose timely topics
Develop story ideas for nonfiction articles
Get paid for writing non-fiction
Turn your book idea into a successful nonfiction book
Write a successful nonfiction proposal
Find the right agent for you
Write compelling nonfiction
Understand what it takes to write nonfiction books
Write articles for periodicals and on-line media
Understand and use the submission process to your advantage
Make the perfect pitch of your work
Motivate yourself to write
Research and write works of nonfiction
Find time to write
Use the correct writing style for your piece of nonfiction

FACULTY

Steven Babitsky, Esquire, is the President of SEAK, Inc., a publishing and seminar company. He received his BA from the City University of New York and his JD from Boston College Law School. Attorney Babitsky has written for Matthew Bender as a contributing author of the Social Security Practice Guide, Understanding the AMA Guides in Workers' Compensation Cases (co-author), Wiley Law Publications, as well as the coauthor of eight texts published and marketed through SEAK, Inc. Attorney Babitsky was the long time Editor of Workers' Compensation Monthly and Occupational Medical Digest. Attorney Babitsky has 25 years of experience in the writing, marketing, selling, and publishing of legal nonfiction.

Dave Freedman has worked as a writer, editor, author, and publishing consultant since 1978. He has served on the editorial staffs of professional, business, trade, and consumer magazines and newsletters. As a freelance writer, he has written more than a thousand articles for magazines, newsletters, and newspapers (including online publications), mainly in the fields of law, personal finance, and business management. Dave has also ghost-written more than 100 articles for lawyers and financial advisers. Dave is the author of two non-fiction books, one of which was based on a $100 million civil rights lawsuit: Death of an American (Continuum, New York, 1983). He is the editor of a forthcoming book (due out January 2004) on information management compliance, coauthored by a lawyer and a management consultant.

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 nonfiction, 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). Katharine has been a guest speaker on writing and publishing topics for lawyers and other writers, The American Society of Journalists and Authors, New York University and the New York State Council on Arts. Her books have appeared in Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review.

Schedule
Friday, October 15, 2004
7:30-8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15	Introduction Why you want to write legal fiction A discussion of individual goals, practice- building, promotion of services, start a new career, etc.
8:15-9:00	Publishing Basics What you need to know about the non-fiction book business and the publishing of articles
9:00-9:30	Article Writing Developing a story idea, pitch, outline, lead and article
9:30-10:00	Book Ideas How to turn your ideas into a successful non-fiction book. Why does the world need this book?
10:00-10:15	Break/Networking Opportunity
10:15-11:00	How to write a successful non-fiction proposal
11:00-12:00	Finding the right agent The query letter to hook the agent and finding, securing, and working with the right agent
12:00-1:00	Lunch provided with faculty
1:00-2:00	Writing Non-Fiction Books Commitment, market research, understanding publishing contracts, deadlines, editing and publication
2:00-2:30	Writing Articles for Periodicals and On-line Media
2:30-3:00	The Submission Process The things you need to do to make it work - format, revisions, and fact checking
3:00-3:15	Break and Networking Opportunity
3:15-3:30	Practicing Pitchcraft Making the perfect pitch of your work
3:30-4:00	Research and Writing Works of Non-fiction Conducting and organizing research, interviews, and detailed outlining of your work
4:00-4:30	Writing Style for Non-fiction Works Style, clarity, details, lead-body-conclusion formula, and exposition formula
4:30-5:00	Roundtable Discussion and Concluding Remarks

SEAK Legal Fiction Writing for Lawyers 2004
registration info	general information		Legal Fiction Writing Seminar 2004	fax registration
Preconferences: Expert Witness Directory		Legal Nonfiction Writing for Lawyers (How to Use Your Expertise to Publish)	Getting Your First Novel Published	Screenwriting for Lawyers



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