CHAT LIVE with Agent/Author NOAH LUKE...

CHAT LIVE with Agent/Author NOAH LUKEMAN, Tues., Oct. 29 at 8 pm ET...(m)

Noah Lukeman is President of Lukeman Literary Management Ltd, which he founded in 1996. His clients include multiple winners of the Pulitzer Prize, American Book Award, Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Award, National Book Award finalists, Edgar Award finalists, Pacific Rim finalists, multiple New York Times bestsellers, national journalists, major celebrities, and faculty of universities ranging from Harvard to Stanford. He has worked as a Manager in the New York office of Artists Management Group, Michael Ovitz' multi-talent management company, and has worked for another major New York literary agency. Prior to becoming an agent he worked on the editorial side of several major publishers, including William Morrow, Delphinium Books and Farrar, Straus, Giroux, and as editor of a literary magazine. He was creator of PrePub.com, one of the first publishing rights websites, which eventually became the "Booktracker" division of Inside.com.

Mr. Lukeman is himself author of the bestselling The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying out of the Rejection Pile (Simon & Schuster), already part of the curriculum in many universities, and of the recently published The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life (St. Martins Press), a selection of the Writers Digest Book Club and already a national bestseller. He has been a guest speaker on the subjects of writing and publishing at numerous forums, including the Wallace Stegner writing program at Stanford University and Riker's Island Penitentiary. He earned his B.A. with High Honors in English and Creative Writing from Brandeis University, cum laude.

THE FIRST FIVE PAGES: A WRITER'S GUIDE TO STAYING OUT OF THE REJECTION PILE (Simon & Schuster)

One of the few books on manuscript preparation and style written from the perspective of an active publishing industry professional. A bestseller, serialized in Poets & Writers, The Writer (3 installments), and published in the UK and Japan.

THE PLOT THICKENS: 8 WAYS TO BRING FICTION TO LIFE (St Martins Press) From the literary agent and author of the bestselling The First Five Pages, comes a groundbreaking new book on plot development. The art of plot development has become synonymous with having a "great idea." But a great idea is merely an abstraction without characterization, journey, suspense, conflict, and context. Analyzing the elements of classic storytelling, The Plot Thickens enables beginning and advanced writers alike to consider how these elements can combine--in many heretofore unimagined ways--to produce the kind of plot that will make their work transcendent. A veritable fiction-writing workshop, writers will find it impossible to walk away from this invaluable guide without boundless new ideas.

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