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The 2008 CVWW Symposium
June 7, 2008 + Saturday
Featuring literary agent Doris Booth &
St. Martin's Press Associate Editor Kathleen Gilligan.
Top-notch professionals in the publishing industry will share their insights Saturday, June 7 at the Chowchilla library. This year, Central Valley Writers' Workshop is bringing St. Martin's Press Associate Editor Kathleen Gilligan and workshop favorite Doris Booth, editor in chief of Authorlink.com and manager of Authorlink Literary Group, to the Central Valley for the workshop's annual Symposium.
Gilligan has been with Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's, since 2004 and specializes in women's fiction, everything from chick lit to mainstream, slice-of-life and mysteries.
Gilligan has worked with authors including T. Lynn Ocean (Sweet Home Carolina) and Michelle Wildgen (You're Not You). She has also worked with Susan Konig, "whose memoirs on motherhood … have USA Today calling her Bombeckian," Gilligan said in a statement published on the St. Martin's website.
Gilligan works with seasoned authors and those watching the birth of their debut novels.
Booth, who has spoken at the workshop's first two symposiums, will give writers an "Inside Look at the Publishing Industry and How It Is Changing."
Authorlink Literary Group operates as a separate division of Authorlink.com and represents true crime, thrillers, mysteries, women's fiction, young adult and a wide range of nonfiction.
Booth's recent sales include The Devil's Right Hand Man (Berkley/Penguin Putnam) by Stephen G. Michaud and Debbie Price, Leaving Glorytown; One Family's Struggle Under Castro (Farrar Straus & Giroux) by Eduardo Calcines, and Beyond Cruel (St. Martin's Press) by Stephen G. Michaud.
As CEO of Authorlink.com, she has facilitated sales of fiction and nonfiction properties to HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, John Wiley & Sons, and McGraw-Hill, among others.
Based in Dallas, Texas, Booth works mainly with New York publishers. Her website, Authorlink.com, is the news, information and marketing site for editors, agents and writers, attracting about one million visitors per year. The site is home to the new CelebWire, featuring New York Times bestselling authors and other notables on both the website and on cell phones in alliance with Macmillan Publishing's MPS Mobile Global Reader.
Cost for the symposium is $50 for non-CVWW members and $25 for members. A nonprofit organization, all proceeds support the symposium and newly-introduced scholarship program.
Central Valley Writers' Workshop is a hands-on read and critique group that meets 6 p.m. every Wednesday at the Chowchilla library. Visitors are welcome to view the workshops sessions up to twice yearly, and new members are welcome.
Membership is $25 yearly, and entitles members to attend the quarterly seminars free and the Symposium at half price.
For more information about the Symposium and workshop contact CVWW president Glenna Jarvis, 665-7381, or email gfjarvis@gmail.com.
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