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The 2008 Backspace Writers Conference brings together literary agents, acquisitions editors, bestselling authors, and publishing professionals for a two-day, two-track program of workshops, panels, and networking in the heart of the publishing world. Keynote speakers are Mark Tavani, a senior editor at Random House, and John Searles, bestselling author and books editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine. Others on the program include literary agents Richard Curtis, Simon Lipskar, Jeff Kleinman, Emmanuelle Alspaugh, Paige Wheeler, Laney Katz Becker, Jenny Bent, Maya Rock, Michael Bourret, Scott Hoffman, Ronnie Gramazio, Elisabeth Weed, and Stephany Evans. Backspace is once again offering the popular Two Minutes, Two Pages workshops in which a pair of agents react to authors' pages as if they were reading them in slush, and Jeff Kleinman will do a two-hour workshop titled, "Buy This Book!" Cost for the two-day event is $395. www.backspacewritersconference.com
NYFWA members are invited to a special anniversary party celebrating the first 70 years of the New York Financial Writers Association at the Junior League, 130 East 80th Street. Details to follow.
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