ATTENTION ALL SARASOTA WRITERS! 

Visiting Writers Forum An Author Reading & Conversation Series Cheryl Klein Tuesday, Sept 22 7:00 - 8:15 pm via ZOOM (link below) Cheryl Klein is the editorial director at Lee & Low Books. She is also the author of two adult books, The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults and Second Sight: An Editor's Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults, and three picture books, Wings, Thunder Trucks, and A Year of Magical Thinking. Prior to her work at Lee & Low, she spent sixteen years at Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, where she published a wide array of acclaimed titles and served as the continuity editor for the last two books of the Harry Potter series. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. http://www.cherylklein.com/         Klein on how she got started in the writing/publishing world: Thanks to both nature and nurture, I am a total children’s books nerd. My grandfather was a professor of children’s literature and founded one of the nation’s first children’s author festivals, so I grew up reading kids’ books long after it was socially acceptable to do so. I decided I wanted to go into publishing while I was still in high school; I read Publishers Weekly at Carleton College (where I majored in English, of course); I became an editorial assistant within three months of my college graduation, and I gave my first talk on craft at a writers’ conference fewer than nine months after that. Klein on her work as an editor: I think of my work as an editor as being a mechanic for stories:  I take books apart, examine their component pieces, and help my authors assemble them again as more elegant and polished machines. My writing for writers, from this point of view, is the instruction manual for the machinery — how I articulate the instincts and knowledge about fiction I’ve gained over nearly two decades of working with writers and their books.   Here's the ZOOM link for this event. Ringling College Creative Writing Program is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Cheryl Klein VWF (Sept 22) Time: Sep 22, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://ringling-edu.zoom.us/j/97849239458 Meeting ID: 978 4923 9458 One tap mobile +16468769923,,97849239458# US (New York) +16699006833,,97849239458# US (San Jose) Dial by your location         +1 646 876 9923 US (New York)         +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)         +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)         +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)         +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)         +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 978 4923 9458 Find your local number: https://ringling-edu.zoom.us/u/aclgw510w8 Join by Skype for Business https://ringling-edu.zoom.us/skype/97849239458   ******** While this event is free and open to the public, we do have a limit on how many can attend, so this link is only for people who receive these emails, please. If others are interested in attending, have them send a request to creativewriting@ringling.edu. We can more than likely accommodate them. Thanks for your help with this!

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