R194. Change This, Not That: The Art of Revising
Thursday, March 28, 2019
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
You’ve drafted your manuscript—now it’s time to revise, thinking more about how a prospective agent or editor will be reading your work. How does the business of publishing factor into the revision process? Should you be writing for a specific audience? How do you make your work salable without compromising its artistry? In this panel, we’ll hear from a mix of editors and agents about how they approach the editing process and work with their authors to navigate these pitfalls.
Participants
Moderator:
Sonali Chanchani is an assistant and rising literary agent at Folio Literary Management, where she specializes in upmarket fiction and narrative nonfiction.
Sarah Bowlin joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent in early 2017 after about a decade as an editor of bold new voices in literary fiction and nonfiction at Riverhead Books and most recently at Henry Holt & Co.
Vivian Lee is an editor at Little A, Amazon Publishing's literary fiction and narrative nonfiction imprint. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Literary Journalism and from the New School University in New York with a MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction).
Serene Hakim
Maria Gagliano
