Posts Tagged "writing conferences"

My Scribd love affair con­tin­ues to deepen month after month. This week­end, I’m hon­ored to return to the fab­u­lous South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Writ­ers Con­fer­ence where I’ll be speak­ing about Grow­ing Your Read­er­ship with Scribd​.com. You’ll know why I love telling other writ­ers how I’ve built my writ­ing plat­form when you read what Michael Steven Gre­gory, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of The South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Writ­ers Con­fer­ence, wrote about my phe­nom­e­nal Scribd​.com journey: “(Hyla’s) first time attend­ing a writ­ers’ con­fer­ence was last February’s SD24.  Net result, three agents request­ing her mem­oir, Drop Dead Life: A Preg­nant Widow’s Heart­felt and Often Comic Jour­ney...

The red taxi drove away, leav­ing me there, alone, for three days of writ­ing, lec­tures, read-and-critique work­shops, author pan­els, edi­tor insights, net­work­ing, and the nerve-wracking one-on-ones with lit­er­ary agents. Already, I wanted to board the plane back to San Francisco. Only days before, my mem­oir, DROP DEAD LIFE, a preg­nant widow’s poignant, heart­felt, and often comic jour­ney through death, birth, and rebirth, had been rejected, via email, by yet another lit­er­ary agent. Like most rejec­tions, there wasn’t much com­men­tary on the actual writ­ing, but I con­jured up plenty of imag­i­nary bash­ing on my own. Not feel­ing very poignant or comic, I dragged my horse-sized brown suit­case up to the hotel lobby...