Build Media Platform for Would Be Debut Authors CD

Rachel Holtzman is an assistant editor with G. P. Putnam's Sons and entered the publishing world via ELLE magazine. Her current authors include award-winning journalist Joshua Kendall, The Man Who Made Lists, and Edgar Award-winner David Ellis, Eye of the Beholder. She's worked closely with ABC News' chief White House correspondent Martha Raddatz; The New York Times best sellers Ridley Pearson, Evan Wright, and Kate Jacobs; as well as Crosby, Stills, and Nash's David Crosby. She is actively looking for memoir and narrative nonfiction with a magazine sensibility - a strong voice, a unique perspective, and a journalistic backbone. She greatly admires the work of Mary Roach, Bill Bryson, and Chuck Klosterman. When it comes to fiction, nothing beats a raw and gritty thriller or intelligent fiction that melds the literary with the commercial, much in the spirit of Anne Tyler, Nick Hornby, and Julia Glass. She has a soft spot for all things food-related; loves any project that indulges her wanderlust; and always respects the swagger of the brash, funny, and extreme. She will conduct advanced reading appointments and consultation appointments and present "From Byline to Book Deal: Building a Media Platform for Would-Be Debut Authors."

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