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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  He has also helped many unpublished SCBWI writers find their way to publication.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

We have 33 donations from Editors, Agents, and Art Directors.  The are all up on eBay, except for Anna Olswanger (Agent, Liza Dawson Associates) who has donated a critique the first 20 pages of your chapter book or middle-grade novel or your picture book manuscript (with illustrations if you are an author-illustrator).  This will be listed on Tuesday.

Yesterday I posted the raffle donations, but you may have missed a bunch of things according to when you viewed the post.  You should check the raffles, the ebay posting and the Summer Networking dinners for changes.  Example, I was able to lower the price for the dinner on Aug. 24th, due to having to change restaurants.  So you could save some money if you sign up for that one.

Have a great day.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

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

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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