Kepler's Arts and Lectures
Classes for Writers
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Top Ten Problems in Submitting Your Work and How to Fix Them with Alan Rinzler Saturday, March 16, 2013 1pm - 4pm As an executive level commercial book editor who acquired books from authors and agents from 1962 to 2011, Alan Rinzler noticed common mistakes in query letters, proposals, and manuscripts that could have been corrected before sending them out into the world. Some of these errors are superficial, cosmetic, and easy to fix. Others are deeper and more challenging to resolve, including:
About Alan Rinzler Alan Rinzler has been a top notch editor for nearly 50 years. He edited and published Toni Morrison, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson, Jerzy Kosinski, Shirley MacLaine, Andy Warhol, Clive Cussler, Bob Dylan, Robert Ludlum, and others while working as Assistant to the Managing Editor at Simon and Schuster, Director of Trade Publishing at Bantam Books, VP and Associate Publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine, President of Straight Arrow Books and West Coast Editor for the Grove Press. Alan also taught at Stanford University, NYU, and UC Berkeley, and has conducted trainings and workshops at Elliot Bay, Hugo House, San Francisco Writers Conference, the Grub Street Muse & the Marketplace, Book Passage, Books Inc. Mrs. Dalloway’s and elsewhere. Class Fee: $99 Tickets are available now at Brown Paper Tickets Online or by calling 800-838-3006 |
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