About Networking for Word Nerds
In your peer group, are you the undefeated Scrabble champion? Have you been known to quote the world’s great dead poets? Do you get that warm and fuzzy feeling when you read a great piece of advertising copy? Well, here’s your chance to network with folks who are doing the same thing. We’re throwing a special networking session for all of the sesquipedalians in our network.
Who Should Attend
Calling all freelancers, editors, professors, publishers, and writers! We’re hosting a special Network Roulette session for our community’s top “Word Nerds”.
Who You Will Meet
Register now to be directly connected to these great writers in our community:
Steph Auteri is a sex-writing, funeral-singing career coach to word nerds, and has been published in Playgirl, Time Out New York, Nerve, The Frisky, YourTango, and other bastions of fine writing. You can read about her freelance lifestyle over at Freelancedom, or stalk her on Twitter.
Melissa Breau is publisher of Moxy Magazine, the magazine for women with big cojones and bigger dreams. Moxy isn’t the feminine hygiene section of the grocery store or your typical women's magazine. Founded in 2010, Moxy is where sassy, scrappy and sophisticated women go when they’re ready for something to sink their teeth into. In addition, Melissa is a freelance writer and editor and her resume includes time spent at Pet Business Magazine, Columbia University Press and in the Manhattanville College Marketing Department. She has a Masters of Science in Publishing and is always willing to talk shop on twitter or on her blog.
Ty Unglebower writes several web columns, keeps two blogs, and contributes to a number of local publications in and around Frederick, Maryland. When he is not spending his time writing and looking for more places to write, he is on stage, performing live theatre in near-by West Virginia's top venues.
Linda Formichelli has written for more than 130 magazines since 1997, including Health, Woman's Day, USA Weekend, Inc., Writer's Digest, Wired News, and WebMD. Linda co-authored The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success and The Renegade Writer's Query Letters That Rock. She offers an 8-week e-course on breaking into magazines, a free packet of query letters that worked, free tele-classes for writers, and a blog with more than 600 helpful posts at http://www.therenegadewriter.com.
Alisa Bowman is a freelance writer and editor who pens books that sell. For more than a decade she has made a living as a book collaborator and ghostwriter. Her works have collectively sold several million copies and 7 of them have made their way onto the NY Times Bestseller list. Her most recent work, however, is a not a collaboration. It’s a gripping true story told in her voice. Project: Happily Ever After is the story of how Alisa saved her marriage. Based on her popular blog by the same name, the book has been featured on the TODAY Show, FOX and many other national outlets. Her next co-authored work, Dangerous Instincts, will be published in October.
Claire Daniel, a native Washingtonian, graduated from William & Mary and promptly packed everything up and moved to Prague to write, teach English and “find herself”. Claire moved to New York City in 2007 for graduate school at New York University, and now lives in Brooklyn. Before writing about celebrities at YourTango, she was the co-editor of a non-profit legal newsletter, an intern at Newsweek and a beauty blogger at TruthinAging.com. She now enjoys walks in Prospect Park, poetry slams, beer gardens, free meals and foreign movies. Tall, dark and handsome men can tweet-stalk her here.
Clay Morgan is a writer, professor, and speaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania whose writing has been featured in the Post-Gazette and “Freshly Pressed” column on WordPress. Over the past decade, Clay has been an editor at Infinity Broadcasting, a Features Writer for The Monthly Post, and been featured in a variety of other publications. He now leads career workshops for PA Career Link, after launching a successful resume-writing business in 2003, and teaches at Pittsburgh-based colleges. His current blog, eduClaytion, has appeared in the Top 100 Blogs of the Day, and is currently working on a project, PopTeacher.com, a website dedicated to finding creative ways for teachers to use popular culture in education.
Leslie A. Joy is a marketing assistant, process manager, analytics geek, and blogger. She’s dedicated to keeping communications simple while maximizing impact. Based in New York, she encourages aspiring writing professionals to “just say hi” because that’s how all networking begins. You can find out more at her site, Social Media Mercenary or follow her on Twitter.
Dave White is a two time Shamus Award nominated author. He has written two novels: When One Man Dies and The Evil That Men Do. He is also a middle school teacher and covers Rutgers basketball for On the Banks. He's also written several short mystery stories, including "Closure" which won the Derringer Award for Best Short Story in 2002.
Register Now!
Brazen Careerist is hosting a Network Roulette for Word Nerds to match you up with top talent and exchange ideas!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
8:00pm ET / 5:00am PT
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
8:00pm ET / 5:00am PT
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