Ever feel overwhelmed by your authorpreneurial things-to-do list?  Wish you could get all the information you needed quickly, efficiently and all in one place, AND do it while networking, seeing friends, drinking wine and nibbling on cheese?

Ye Olde (New) She Writes Knowledge Fair is for you.

For one night only, our hand-picked team of experts in publishing, book marketing, social media, website design, agent-advisement, editorial advice and much much more will be on hand and ready to advise you in a unique speed-consulting set-up, sort of like the publishing version of speed-dating.  For just $12, you will be free to feast on a rich buffet of publishing-knowledge, all while hanging with your fellow She Writers in NYC.

Ask a big-time agent...

if you should leave yours, or how you should find one in the first place.

Ask a well-known website designer...

to take a look at your author site and give you feedback, or for tips on designing your own.

Ask an experienced email marketing guru...

when, how and how often you should send updates to your fans (or how to get some).

Ask a Twitter-tastic social media maven...

to tell you what, exactly, a Facebook Fan page is, and how to use it.

Ask a nationally-known book-event producer...

for her top five tips on producing a book event that sells.

Ask a Yale-trained financial wizard...

for her strategies for financial health and wellness for writers.

Ask a life coach...

why the heck you decided to become a writer anyway.

AND SO MUCH MORE.

(see below for the crackerjack team of experts who will attend)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26TH

6:30-8:30

$12, with a limited number of tix available.

200 CHAMBERS STREET, 6TH FLOOR LOUNGE

And now, meet the team...

Sharon Avnon, Designer

Sharon provides a complete array of graphic services for both Web and print. She  customizes each job based on budget and needs by providing an honest advice, a creative approach and tailor-made designs and products. Always responsive and reliable, she’s here to enhance your visibility in style!

About Sharon Avnon

In her career as a graphic designer, some of Sharon’s more visible projects were created for Elizabeth Arden and Bliss. But she did the most fulfilling ones for an author who writes about motherhood and two young moms starting a small business. She now hopes to expand those experiences by increasing the media footprint and marketing reach of writers and others in the creative field. Sharon is married to a journalist and has two beautiful kids and a dog.

Wickham Boyle, Financial Planner

Wickham, also known as Wicki, offers personalized workshops geared toward increasing understanding of finance and taking control of money issues through intuitive approaches. Learn how to budget, control debt, master taxes, and assume a sense of power in your financial life.

About Wickham Boyle

Wickham holds an MBA from Yale and has 30 years of experience in management and consulting, in such disparate fields as the theater, the government, and the stock exchange. She has taught at NYU and Sarah Lawrence, and is the co-creator of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's BFA (Basic Finance for Artists) program. Wicki's specialties: holistic finance, debt erasure, budgeting, and investments for those with creative brains.

Marian Brown, Publicist

An expert in all aspects of publicity, marketing, advertising, social networking, and special events, Marian works with both first-time and established authors, creating personalized programs to capitalize on each book and author's unique niche and message, helping to find the largest and most satisfied audience.

About Marian Brown

Marian has 20 years experience working with major publishing houses including Alfred. A. Knopf, Basic Books, The Free Press, Pantheon, Henry Holt, Wiley, Houghton Mifflin, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and Bloomsbury. She has held upper-management positions in publicity, advertising, and editorial and now specializes in the areas of current affairs, fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, psychology, and pop culture.

Emily Epstein, Photographer

Whether shooting an author photo in a studio setting or utilizing natural light, Emily strives to create personal and inspiring portraits. All sessions include a pre-shoot consultation, online gallery, printed portraits, and retouching. Images can be used in all mediums for promotion of your book. Emily also has an extensive archive of travel, documentary, lifestyle and conceptual images that are available for book covers or illustration. You can browse them at Corbis or commission derivative works.

About Emily Anne Epstein

Emily Anne Epstein studied literature and film at Columbia University. Her signature style infuses classical compositions with modern aesthetics to create compelling portrait and documentary photography. Emily works with periodicals such as The New York Times, Newsday, Time Out, The Newark Star-Ledger, The New York Post, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Her work has been published in four different continents.

Amy Fox, Screenwriting Consultation

Maybe you've always dreamed that your book will one day be on the silver screen? Or maybe your book is already on its way to becoming a film and you want to understand the process? Whether you are considering adapting your own material, or just want to learn how adaptation works, Amy can provide guidance as your writing transitions from prose to script. She can provide instruction on the craft of screenwriting, advice on navigating the film business, and guidance on how to pitch your book as a possible film.

About Amy Fox

Amy is a playwright and screenwriter whose work includes the Merchant Ivory film Heights and plays that have been produced at theaters in NYC, London, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Austin, and elsewhere. She is on the faculty of the NYU/Tisch Graduate School of Film and Television, and has also taught at Brooklyn College, Gotham Writers' Workshop, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Program. Her play One Thing I Like to Say Is was a finalist for the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and Summer Cyclone and Heights are published by Dramatists Play Service.

Kathryn Gordon, Marketing and E-Newsletters

Kathryn specializes in unconventional book marketing campaigns that make an impact and create a salient and lasting impression with readers. She'll work with you to identify your target audience and then develop and implement a customized campaign to reach that audience, capture their attention, and deliver the message.  Email marketing is one of the most powerful ways to reach your audience. With nearly 40 different templates, Kathryn can customize your email to reflect your personality and brand. You can include your ISBN, price, link to Amazon, author photo, a "download an excerpt" feature, RSS, Facebook, and Twitter links, even a special offer.

About Kathryn Gordon

Kathryn is the founder of The Book Hook. Leveraging 20 years experience in executive positions in marketing and online marketing at major houses including Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Warner Bros/DC Comics, and iUniverse, and relationships with large entertainment-based companies like Fox, Paramount, Alloy, and MTV, she identifies multi-platform partnerships and forms alliances to extend a book’s reach.

Kate Hanselman, Copy Editor

Kate offers quick, thorough copy editing for every kind of writing. From correcting semicolon usage to sorting out homonyms, Kate has a passion for grammar. Coupled with her patience and keen eye for detail, no word will be left misspelled.  Kate is also available as a research assistant for every kind of writing, at any length. Whether unearthing hard-to-find information or providing a fresh pair of eyes on a draft, Kate’s approach is organized and thoughtful.

About Kate Hanselman

Kate, the other half of the She Writes intern dynamic duo, is a senior at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, and will be graduating with a B.A. in Journalism in May 2010. She is currently the Editor in Chief of The New School Free Press, the university's biweekly, student-run newspaper, where she has previously held the positions of Copy Chief, Sports Editor, Reporter, and Photographer. She has researched and written about topics as various as crossword puzzle tournaments and horse racing.

Twanna A. Hines, Social Media Expert

Twanna can help you develop internal and external social media strategies to engage your target audience. She offers insights on web-based technologies including: blogs and micro-blogging (Twitter, Plurk, WordPress, Blogger and TypePad); social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning); social news and bookmarking (Google Reader, Digg, StumbleUpon); photos and video (Flickr, YouTube, Viddler, Picasa); as well as MeetUp.com, FriendFeed, wikis, and others.

About Twanna A. Hines

Twanna has 15 years online experience. She has written for print and online publications including The Huffington Post, Lifetime, Nerve, New York Press, and Fast Company. She has been mentioned in the Village Voice and New York magazine, and online at CNN, Gawker Media, The San Francisco Chronicle, EbonyJet, The Baltimore Sun, Vibe, and elsewhere. Her award-winning site, FUNKY BROWN CHICK®, was featured on AOL's Black Voices list of best blogs. She attended New York University, and received B.S. and M.A. degrees in sociology.

Carol Hoenig, Event Production and Publicity

With innovative guidance, Carol will help you realize your book's full potential to garner sales. Bookstores aren't always the best place to seek publicity, so Carol explores other opportunities that make sense for a particular book, as well as writing press releases, assembling press kits and sending them to media outlets, pitching venues, and setting up events.

About Carol Hoenig

Carol is a fulltime freelance writer and publishing consultant, which includes ghostwriting, editing, and event planning. Her novel Without Grace was awarded the Silver Medal for Book of the Year 2005 by ForeWord magazine, and her book The Author's Guide to Planning Book Events was given the Gold medal by ForeWord for Book of the Year 2007 in the category of writing.

Erin Hosier, Literary Agent

Once you have an amazing title and a strong first chapter of your novel or book proposal, the most crucial piece of any submission to an agent is your query letter. Erin Hosier can help shape your pitch into something that will help get your pages read by reputable agents. She offers advice on title, tone, what not to say in your query, the etiquette of the multiple agent submission, and a list of agents who excel at sales in specific categories. She can provide behind-the-scenes advice and let you know your options in the event an agent isn’t necessary. 

About Erin Hosier

Erin has been an agent for 10 years at The Gernert Company and Dunow Carlson & Lerner, where she has sold both fiction and a variety of narrative, practical, and illustrated nonfiction to major publishing houses in NYC and around the world. She is especially interested in the following categories: memoir, sociology, biography, art, the performing arts, pop culture, health, science, and humor. She currently cohosts the monthly reading series "The Literary Death Match" in NYC at the Bowery Poetry Club.

Molly Lyons, Literary Agent

Are you looking for an expert eye? Whether you’re working on an essay, novel, or non-fiction project, Molly can help bolster the work’s strengths and help pinpoint and fix its weaknesses. She offers manuscript development and editorial consultation and aims to help you produce a work that is meaningful and reflective of you.

About Molly Lyons

Molly began her career as a magazine editor and writer before joining Joëlle Delbourgo Associates, Inc. where she represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. Her background allows her to bring a well-rounded and unique approach to agenting—from developing her clients’ manuscripts and proposals, to positioning them in the marketplace, to helping shape their literary careers.

Courtney E. Martin, Social Media Expert and Blogger

Whether you're a writer craving an online platform or a jumpstart on your book proposal, a nonprofit executive director who wants a bigger reach, or an organization looking to involve younger women in a conference, Courtney's your gal for gaining exposure via the Internet.

About Courtney E. Martin

Courtney is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her next book, Do It Anyway: The Next Generation of Teachers, Advocates, and Activists, will be published in 2010, as will her co-edited anthology CLICK, on moments when young women became feminists. Courtney is an editor at Feministing.com, a member of the Women’s Media Center, and a Senior Correspondent at The American Prospect, as well as a communications consultant with social justice nonprofits nationwide. Past and current happy clients include the National Council for Research on Women, The Ms. Foundation, The Women’s Funding Network, and the Bartos Institute for the Constructive Engagement of Conflict, in addition to many individuals.

Amanda Moon, Editor

Amanda provides you with a thorough analysis and edit of your manuscript, proposal, op-ed, magazine article, or chapter to address flow, structure, tone, argument development, and more. She often works with first-time authors and academics looking to move into the trade market. Amanda will help make your writing accessible and engaging, and tackles anything from the kernel of an idea to a manuscript that needs a final polish.

About Amanda Johnson Moon

Amanda has worked as an editor in the publishing industry for over ten years. She began her career as an intern at Yale University Press and Writers House. She has served as an editor at Palgrave Macmillan and Basic Books. She has worked with authors including Deborah Siegel, Alice Miller, Tony Wagner, Mary Daly, John Merrow, Henry Giroux, Leonard Sax, Malina Saval, Nancy Rappaport, Sue Barry, and Andrea Tone. She has acquired, edited, and managed many award-winning and positively reviewed books for the trade and academic markets in psychology, women's studies, education, science, memoir, and more.

Rebecca Rodksog, Life Coach

Through her experience with professional Consulting, Coaching, and Project Management, Rebecca can help you expand your writing business in concert with your own personal and professional growth—distilling the mission of your work, developing a business plan, and creating supplemental materials, workshops, and events that utilize your content to its fullest. In addition to acting as a guide, Rebecca can also oversee the execution and management of any development efforts.

About Rebecca Rodskog

Rebecca is a seasoned change management consultant who lovingly guides individuals from Point A to Point B on their path to growth and fulfillment. With energy and quick wit, she applies her experience working with large organizations to the more personal challenges of individuals. She works with you to understand your unique situation and design a customized action plan. Rebecca is also a featured writer on the blogs NYC Moms and The Well Mom, an actress, and a mother of two.

Sarah Saffian, Editor

Sarah offers individual consultation at every stage of the creative process. Have a completed or partial manuscript on which you’d like thorough written comments? An outline that needs shaping? Amorphous ideas that you’re eager to explore one-on-one? A hankering for a private tutorial in memoir or journalism? C’mon down!

About Sarah Saffian

Sarah is the author of the memoir Ithaka, which was widely and favorably reviewed and is a decade in print. Sarah has written and edited for publications including The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Daily News, and Slate, and has taught memoir and journalism at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the New School, and elsewhere. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Millay Colony and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and is currently working on a novel.

Sarah Wilson, Publicist

Sarah works with her author clients to implement highly targeted and effective public relations and marketing communications in the midst of a rapidly changing and digitizing media and publishing landscape. She works with fiction and non-fiction titles, and has watched her book promotion projects climb the bestseller lists as well as head for TV and film.

About Sarah Wilson

Sarah leverages her national network of strategic partners to build bridges across a wide variety of stakeholders, audiences, and clientele. She was an early participant in Ferrazzi Greenlight Consulting’s Author Coaching Program as well as Jane Atkinson’s “The Wealthy Speaker” Coaching Program. Sarah has an extensive marketing, public relations, and business development background, holds a BA in Economics & Political Science from SUNY Albany, and has worked toward an MA in Economics from Boston University.