Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 11:45 am to 4:30 pm!
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45.00 for Members
55.00 for Non-Members (JOIN LVW HERE)
Program Schedule -
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Welcome Remarks from LVW President Caryn Connolly
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Dawn Reno Langley – Ups and Downs of Publishing
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Break
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Jennifer Wilkov – Pitch Your Project like a Pro
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Closing Remarks - More info: Click "Show Details" Below
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Dawn Reno Langley
Dawn’s 1-hour Presentation: Dawn will be talking about “The Ups and Downs of Publishing” and her experience as a writer, working with various agents over the years.
About Dawn: Dawn Reno Langley is a writer, theater critic, mosaic artist, and educator, who has devoted her life to giving a voice to social justice issues. Her first article, published at the age of nine, questioned the likelihood of an attack on U.S. soil during the Cuban missile crisis, and she believes that’s when her predilection toward writing about sensitive topics began.
Her books range from nonfiction works on art and antiques to children’s books. She has been published by several of the Big 5 New York publishers, has published with independent traditional publishers, and has re-released some of those books on a nontraditional platform. This has enabled her to understand publishing in a way few others can.
As a Fulbright scholar, Langley spent time at universities in Pakistan and still works with several through mentoring programs and on the board of trustees for academic journals based there.
She received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Study Colony, and Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities. She has offered a TedX talk about “How Creatives Can Save the World.”
She is promoting her new novel, Analyzing the Prescotts, and hopes to enter into some important conversations about what it takes to write about social justice issues, as well as the themes raised in the novel.
More of Dawn’s story can be found on her website: https://www.dawnrenolangley.net/
Jennifer Wilkov
Jennifer’s 3-hour workshop: "Pitch your Project Like a Pro Workshop." Every writer writes a book/project with the intention to publish/produce it, promote it, and pitch it for opportunities they could only imagine they would have.
However, understanding what it takes to actually pitch it, get your book/project out into the marketplace, and attract attention and visibility can seem like a mystery of its own. In this presentation, Jennifer S. Wilkov, multi #1 international best-selling author, award-winning freelance writer and Hollywood business consultant, will show you how to master the art of pitching and promoting yourself and your project!
Break through the bottlenecks, control your inner doubts and distractions, discover how to pitch and promote your book/project with ease, and start using it to attract more readers, agents, producers, publicists, press and clients.
Expect to learn:
- How to determine the right way to promote & pitch your project
- What is required to promote & pitch each type of project
- The basics for understanding the “inner game” of pitching and how to win it
- The secret to using your book/project as your “hook” in your industry, business, and for your writing objectives
- Fool-proof ways to master networking introductions with your book/project inside and outside of the industry
- Proven techniques to use your book/project to reach publishers, producers, and the media
- Top strategies to leverage your book/project for various audiences, opportunities, and markets
*This 3-hour workshop includes interactive times for writers to practice their pitch and to hear others pitch so they have more insight into what pitching is, feels like, and how to manage their time effectively in pitch meetings.
About Jennifer: Jennifer is a multi #1 international best-selling award-winning author. She has been a producer, an award-winning freelance writer, The Literary Agent Matchmaker™ and a respected book, business and entertainment creative consultant for nearly 20 years.
She was selected as the Top Motivational Speaker, Business Consultant and Best-Selling Author of the Year for 2024 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP).
She supports first-time writers and creators and seasoned authors, screenwriters, scriptwriters and playwrights with the essentials to become a bestseller: a great project, a strong platform and a well-polished pitch, presentation and hook for their book, television project, film, or theater project.
She passionately teaches and educates writers as a speaker and program producer at writers’ conferences including Writer’s Digest Conferences, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Crimebake, ThrillerFest, Women in Publishing Summit, California Creative Writers Conference, and others. She also works with groups such as the Writers Guild of America – East, Motion Picture Association and New York Women in Film & Television where she leads the Writers Group as a platinum member, and she teaches online for writers’ resources such as Writer’s Digest.
She is a member of Women in Film in Los Angeles and Women in Film San Francisco Bay Area and the creator and producer of The Next Bestseller™ Workshop (virtual), a safe space that provides writers with exclusive access to the dream team to help writers learn to talk effectively with industry professionals about their projects.
Her keen eye for stories that sell for both books and in Hollywood is trusted by industry professionals who appreciate her savvy in seeing the many possibilities a subject can lend itself to. Find her at www.YourBookisYourhook.com