Thursday, April 29, 2010
From Random Thought to Random House:
An author, an agent, and an editor
discuss the making of a book
Featuring:
Michele Young-Stone, author of The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel
Michelle Brower, literary agent, Folio Literary Management, NYC
Sarah Knight, senior editor, Shaye Areheart Books (Random House), NYC
With your host, JRW Board Chair Virginia Pye
Michele Young-Stone is the author of the debut novel The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
(Shaye Areheart, 2010). At age 30, Michele decided to quit teaching and
write the book she’d been dreaming of writing since she was seven years
old. Miraculously, it happened. Since completing The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors,
Michele continues to write about miracles large and small. A fan of the
underdog, her characters have been described as “endearing losers,”
“complicated, nuanced and sympathetic.” Michele currently resides in
Richmond, VA with her husband, son, dog, some hermit crabs and a showy
fish. A very long time ago, Michele was struck by lightning and
survived. www.micheleyoung-stone.com
Michelle Brower
began her career in publishing in 2004 while studying for her Master’s
degree in English Literature at New York University, and has been
hooked ever since. During that time, she assisted the agents Wendy
Sherman and Joelle Delbourgo, and found herself in love with the
process of discovering new writers and helping existing writers further
their careers. After graduating, she became an agent with Wendy Sherman
Associates, and there began representing books in many different areas
of fiction and non-fiction. In 2009, she joined Folio Literary
Management, where she is looking for literary fiction, thrillers,
high-quality commercial fiction that transcends genre, and narrative
non-fiction. She enjoys digging into a manuscript and working with
authors to make their project as saleable as it can be, and her list
includes the authors S.G. Browne, Julia Wertz, Todd Ritter, and Michele
Young-Stone among many others.
Sarah Knight
is a Senior Editor at Shaye Areheart Books, a division of Random House.
She has worked in publishing for ten years and edited a range of
critically acclaimed and bestselling novels and nonfiction works, with
brief stints also as a bookseller, comedy writer, and restaurant
critic. She grew up in a small coastal town in Maine and now lives in
Brooklyn with her husband and their ill-behaved cat, Doug. She once
spent a summer searching for the perfect tuna salad sandwich.
Virginia Pye (JRW Chair, 2010) is a fiction writer and poet. Her stories have been published in numerous literary magazines including The North American Review, failbetter.com, The Baltimore Review, and upcoming in The Potomac Review.
She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA from Wesleyan
University and taught writing and literature at NYU and the University
of Pennsylvania. She is completing a new novel, Sleepwalking to China, about three generations of an American family in Asia.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
6:30-8:30 pm
The Pavilion Room
The Children’s Museum
2626 West Broad Street, Richmond
$10 in advance
$12 at the door
$5 students at the door
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