Time: 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Inside an Acquiring Editor's Mind:
A Discussion with Amy Gash
426 Springfield Avenue, Summit, NJ
$50 if pre-registered, $60 at the door
$45 for TWC students and parents*
Register online!
What goes on in the mind of an acquiring editor? It's a deep, dark mystery to most writers. Here's an opportunity to peek behind the black curtain and learn, first-hand, what an acquiring editor thinks throughout the submission, acquisition, and publishing process. In an open forum facilitated by TWC Directors Judith Lindbergh and Michelle Cameron, you will be invited to ask specific questions and receive no-hold-barred answers.
Amy Gash is a Senior Editor in the New York office of Algonquin Books, where she has acquired literary fiction and narrative nonfiction for the past fifteen years. Among the books she has edited are Ariel Sabar’s My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, the New York Times bestseller Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising School in America by Jay Mathews, and Audubon Medal recipient Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. The Art Forger, a novel by B.A. Shapiro, was a New York Times bestseller, a Boston Globe bestseller, and the #1 Indie Next Pick this past November.
Among the books that Amy has edited and will be published in 2013 are a novel inspired by the Japanese phenomenon hikikomori, a memoir about learning cello in mid-life, a history of a 1930s Ponzi scheme, a story about the making of a dictionary, and a thriller detailing the search for an ancient Bible. What connects all her diverse projects, whether fiction, memoir, history, education, travel, religion, science, or popular culture is the author’s distinct voice.
Before arriving at Algonquin, Amy worked at HarperCollins and Random House. Her own bookWhat the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-ups from Children’s Books was published in 1999.
