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By: Kathy Temean,
on 5/27/2012
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This May Illustration was sent in by Nancy Cote. You will be meeting her on this coming Illustrator Saturday, so this is just a teaser.
Last week I posted a date for a Networking Dinner in June, after saying months ago that we would have dinners in June, July, and August. I am working on making that happen. Here is what I have so far. Please do not wait to sign up. As always we do not make money on these dinners, so they will be cancelled if we do not get a good response.
Date: June 26th
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Networking, dinner, dessert
Cost: $145 per person. Includes dinner and drink.
Place: Private Room Morton’s Steakhouse 551 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017
3 to 1 ratio of attendees to Editors/Agents/AD, could be less.
OUR GUESTS FOR THE EVENING:
Ginger Clark, Literary Agent with Curtis Brown LTD
Daniel Nayeri, Editor at Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Lucy Cummins, Associate Art Director with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Connie Hsu, Sr. Editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Melissa Sarver, Agent at Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency
Kate Sullivan, Associate Editor, Little, Brown, and Co. BFYR
Tamra Tuller, Sr. Editor at Philomel Books
Allison Wortche, Associate Editor at Knopf Books for Young Readers
Tamson Weston, Editorial Consultant, Published Children’s Book Author, and Editor with over 15 years of experience at several prestigious publishing houses including HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Disney Hyperion.
July 24th
CAFÉ CENTRO (location unconfirmed)
Private Dining Room
METLIFE BUILDING AT GRAND CENTRAL STATION
200 PARK AVE. AT EAST 45TH ST.
NEW YORK, NY 10166
Our Guests for the evening:
Agent John Cusick - Scott Treimel Agency
Agent, Holly McGhee – Pippin Properties
Agent, Liza Fleissig – Liza Royce Literary Agency
Executive Editor, Regina Griffin – EgmontUSA
Associate Editor, Leila Sales – Viking Books
Agent, Susan Hawk – The Bent Agency
August 14th
CAFÉ CENTRO (location unconfirmed)
Private Dining Room
METLIFE BUILDING AT GRAND CENTRAL STATION
200 PARK AVE. AT EAST 45TH ST.
NEW YORK, NY 10166
Our Guest for the evening:
Editor, Heather Alexander – Dial BFYC
Executive Editor, Erin Clarke – Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Artist Representative, Christina Tugueau – Christina A Tugeau Agency
Art Director, Katrina DamKoehler- Sterling Books
Agent, Scott Treimel - Scott Treimel Agency
Agent, Stephen Frazer - Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency
Please send me an e-mail if you would like a dinner spot at one of these dinners. Put Summer Networking Dinner and the date in the subject area.
Talk soon,
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean,
on 6/19/2011
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With the conference behind us and summer arriving this week, I thought I would remind everyone of the Summer Networking Dinners taking place with editors and agents in NYC and one in September in Princeton. I have added information for the editors and will add agent info later this week. Please do not rush out to submit to the editors on this list. Most are not open to unsolicited submissions. Please check out the info from additional sources.
IMPORTANT: If you sign up to join one of the dinners, you will receive the most up-to-date detailed information on the editors and agents attending the dinner.
Sign up: Don’t miss the chance to build a relationship with an editor or agent. As writers and illustrators we always feel like we are being judged, but the fact is, we are judging, too. Attending events like these where you can meet editors and agents, allows you to form opinions about who you would like to work with. Everyone is not a fit for you, so save yourself some time and join us. The networking dinners are a great way to find out who is right for you in a non-threatening venue.
July 5th – Cafe Centro - in their private dining room. Includes glass of wine, salad, dessert, and choice of entrée. $150 Time: 6:30 pm
STEVEN MELTZER- Associate Publisher/ Executive Managing Editor, Dial, Dutton, Celebra. Great PB books, fiction or narrative nonfiction. Some nonfiction (PB only) Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Edgy, YA. He suggests that authors need to answer certain questions when they send a book to an editor: What makes your book special? What is the unique draw of the book? What makes it exciting? Is there a curriculum tie-in? Timely topic? Historical setting? What are the comparison titles?
Steve has edited many books for young readers, including John Madden’s Heroes of Football: The Story of America’s Game; The Sydney Taylor award-winning, Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky, illustrated by Greg Harlin; Barbarians! By Steven Kroll, illustrated by Robert Byrd; Useful Fools by C.A. Sc hmidt (a Booklist Best Book of the Year). Also, Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse by Rebecca Janni, illustrated by Lynne Avril, and Mud Tacos! by Mario Lopez and Marissa Lopez Wong, illustrated by Maryn Roos. He has also helped many unpublished SCBWI writers find their way to publication.
EVE ADLER, Editor, Grosset & Dunlap. Eve works on a variety of formats from baby to YA, and is looking for manuscripts for all ages: PBs, MG novels, and YA. She has worked with award-winning authors and illustrators such as Kimberly Willis Holt, Elise Broach, and Janet Tashjian. She enjoys manuscripts with a fresh voice and exceptional writing; for MG and YA projects, she likes contemporary, edgy, historical, coming-of-age, humorous stories, and for PBs. She‘s most interested in texts that have a curriculum tie-in or educational hook.
SHAUNA FAY is an Assistant Editor at G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group. Shauna works on everything from PBs to YA novels. She has edited the PB book, Little Pink Pup by Johanna Kerby, and has worked on Jack Higgins’ YA action series written with Justin Richards, as well as Jan Bret’s Snowy Treasury, and Goodnight Goon and Runaway Mummy by Michael Rex. While open to books for all ages, she is particularly interested in MG fiction with a strong narrative voice, historical fiction, and is a sucker for a romantic ending. She is also interested in young funny, simple picture book texts and is open
By: Kathy Temean,
on 5/25/2011
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Here are the dates of the Summer Networking Dinners, the restaurants and the editors and agents joining us for each one. You will find directions on how to register at the bottom of the post.
July 5th – Cafe Centro - in their private dining room. Includes glass of wine, salad, dessert, and choice of entrée.
Steve Meltzer - Associate Publisher/ Executive Managing Editor, Dial, Dutton, & Celebra
Eve Adler – Associate Editor, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Tina Wexler – Agent – ICM | International Creative Management
Shauna Fay – Assistant Editor, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Penguin Young Readers Group
John Cusick - Agent – Scott Treimel Literary Agency
Nick Eliopulos – Editor – Scholastic
Additional Agent TBA
July 6th – Churrascaria Platforma - Private Room – includes amazing salad bar, unlimited beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, pork, fish, shrimp, pasta, sushi. Dessert comes with the meal, also one alcoholic beverage, unlimited bottled water and soda. I guarantee you will not leave hungry. http://www.churrascariaplataforma.com
Elena Mechlin – Agent – Folio Literary
Alvina Ling – Executive Editor – Little, Brown, and Co.
Marietta Zacker - Agent – Nancy Gallt Literary Agency
Sarah Barley - Associate Editor – HarperCollins BFYR
Claudia Gabel - Senior Editor – Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins
Ariel Colletti - Assistant Editor – Simon & Schuster
Liza Fleissig – Agent – Liza Royce Literary Agency
July 19th – Cafe Centro - in their private dining room. Includes glass of wine, salad, dessert, and choice of entrée.
Holly McGhee – Agent and Owner – Pippin Properties
Sean McCarthy - Agent – Sheldon Folgelman Literary Agency
Catherine Onder – Senior Editor – Disney/Hyperion
Leila Sales – Assistant Editor – Viking Books
Rebecca Frazer - Editor – Jabberwocky/ Sourcebooks
Alexandra Copper – Senior Editor – Simon & Schuster
Ginger Harris – Agent – Liza Royce Literary Agency
July 20th - A.J. Maxwells - Private dining room. Dinner includes, salad, entrée, dessert, one alcoholic drink, soda, coffee, tea.
Eileen Robinson – Editorial Consultant – F1rst Pages http://f1rstpages.com
Mary Kole – Agent – Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Scott Treimel - Owner and Agent – Scott Treimel Literary Agency
Stephen Barbara – Agent – Foundry Literary & Media
Zack Clark - Assistant editor – Scholastic
Lisa Yoskowitz – Editor – Disney/Hyperion
Erin Clarke – Senior Editor – Random House
By: Kathy Temean,
on 5/24/2011
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It seems inquiring minds want to know what is going on with the Summer Networking Dinners being held in New York City in July and August. I have worked on this puzzle all yesterday and it still isn’t finsihed, but here is what it looks like right now.
Each dinner will be held at a very nice restaurant in New York City. I am working on getting the restaurants this week and will let you know which ones we will enjoy later this week.
Each dinner will have at least 7 editors/agents, Laurie Wallmark and myself at the dinner and 14 members who are lucky enough to purchase a spot.
What do we do at the dinners? We like to get a private room, so people can mingle and talk over a glass of wine. Then before dinner, we go around the dinner table and introduce ourselves and talk a little bit about what our current projects. The editors and agents will not be reading your work. This is a time to generate some interest in you and to see what editors and agents you would like to work with in the future. Is is a perfect opportunity to see if you might be a good fit for one of our guests and a great opportunity just to network with everyone in the room.
Since I have not set up the restaurants, I can not give you a price for the dinners, yet, but last year they where around $125. My goal is to get the restaurants and the editors/agents confirmed by the end of the week. Then I will let everyone know the places and who is coming to each dinner and also the price. Conference attendees get the lowest price on the dinners. If you are someone who is not attending the conference, you can choose to pay $40 more to reserve a spot before the conference or take your chances that there will be a spot still open after the conference. If there is you will be able to attend for the same price as the conference attendees.
Here are the dates:
July 5th
July 6th
July 19th
July 20th
Aug. 23rd
Aug. 24th – Maybe
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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The past few week, I have started getting a bunch of questions from writers. Not just New Jersey and New York, but member from all over the world, wanting to get more information. The Summer Networking dinners take place in New York City and are offered first to the people attending the June Conference in Princeton, NJ. If there are spots still available after the conference, they will be sold to other members who did not attend the conference.
I will post the dinners and dates when we finish setting them up and anyone who wants to secure a spot before the conference can do so if they pay an additional $75.
We are currently working on gathering the editors and agents participating this year. Each dinner will have at least 4 editors, agents (usually we have at least one dinner with art reps, art directors, editors and agents for the illustrators). I look for very nice restaursants with pirate dining rooms, so we can mix and mingle before dinner. Once we orderdinner, everyone introduces themselves and gets to talk about what they are working on, so all the agents and editors can get to know you better. We have the editors and agents switch seats during dessert, to help give everyone more opportunity to talk to our VIP’s.
It is a lot of work to coordinate all the editors and agents and then plan the dinners, but everyone has loved them, so I continue to do them. They are a lot of fun and since we keep the dinner small, they provide a lot of opportunity to talk with the editors and agents attending. Dinner includes appetizer, entree, dessert and one alcoholic beverage. Dinners are held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the summer months and usually are around $125. All dinner must be paid for in advance and there are no refunds.
Look forward to spending some time with you this summer.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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At the top of the first page of the registration form you will find the Friday Intensive Workshops. These take place on Friday afternoon and require additional payment. Please look at the .pdf on the website for descriptions for these. Example: Self-Editing is the Intenisve that Harold Underdown and Eileen Robinson are conducting on Friday, Illustrators is the Illustrator Day with the Art Directors. Remember “Early Bird” Registration ends on February 15th.
Below is the part of the registration you use to sign up for a manuscript critique or a portfolio review. If you are an illustrator and sign up for a portfolio reveiw, you can also get a manuscript critique for $55, then your second critique would have to be with an author. Please remember that author critiques are very valuable and the published authors we have chosen are extremely good at doing critiques. Everyone must sign up for an author critique before they can get another editor or agent critique. Harold Underdown, Scott Treimel and Eileen Robinson are only doing the special consultations. Leeza Hernandez is doing a special Portfolio Review for Illustrator who may not be ready to have an art director view their work.
Notice under Manuscript Information: In my example the first critique, which is numbered 1, is a humorousMG. Number 2 is a rhyming PB and number 3 is a edgy YA.
Below is the second page of the Registration Form. I am hoping that seeing one filled out will help everyone. The letters with the numbers by each workshop are for internal use only.
The Mix and Mingle on Friday night is with the faculty, there will be heavy hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.
Please take a few minutes to read over the information that is in the pdf files on the website.
We tried to answer all your questions in those, but feel free to ask questions.
Hope this helped.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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Kathy, I only just did a bit of research in this way and REALLY appreciate all the work you’ve just done, combining the bios with each networking dinner
You are ALways thinking and working so hard for us! Thank you 
Donna