The New England chapter of the

Society of Professional Journalists presents:

HOW TO LAND A BOOK DEAL

a panel discussion

featuring

    Esmond Harmsworth      

Albert LaFarge  

Michele McPhee

Janice Page 

Thursday, July 14, 2011

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

at

The Boston Globe

Esmond Harmsworth is a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. His nonfiction list includes serious books on topics such as business, politics, psychology, culture and society. Highlights range from Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David Rothkopf to The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt and the New York Times bestseller Black Massby Dick Lehr and Gerry O'Neill. 

Albert LaFarge is the founder of the Albert LaFarge Literary Agency, based in Boston since 2003.  Before becoming a literary agent, LaFarge worked in the editorial departments of Ballantine Books, Alfred A. Knopf, Henry Holt, and Harcourt, and as deputy editor of DoubleTake magazine. He is the editor of The Essential William H. Whyte (2000) and, with Robert Coles, Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business, From Tolstoy to Now (2008). He has taught writing, editing, and publishing at Harvard College, Harvard Extension, and Boston University.

Michele McPhee is a Boston Herald columnist and host of the Michele McPhee Show on WRKO. She's also a best-selling author of five true crime titles: Mob Over Miami (Now A Mob Story); Heartless; and When Evil Rules. One of her latest books, A Date With Death, is now a Lifetime movie. A Mob Story is in development for a feature film.

Janice Page is editor of book development at The Boston Globe, where she has overseen the production of many nonfiction books, including Killer B's: The Boston Bruins Capture Their First Stanley Cup in 39 Years, Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life, Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, Great New England Storms of the 20th Century, and Banner 17: The Boston Celtics Return to Glory. She is also the Globe's film editor. 

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