Career Sessions
Virtual Career Session with Lou Aronica
- Item Number
- 294
- Estimated Value
- 200 USD
- Sold
- 200 USD to ra79fcb86
The winning bid will go to FrontStream Global Fund (tax ID 26-3265577), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which will send the donation to WORLDBUILDERS INC (tax ID 900618018) on behalf of the winner.
- Number of Bids
- 8 - Bid History
Item Description
Note: this virtual session will take place on June 11 at 3:30 Eastern Daylight Time.
A 30-minute one-on-one virtual career session via Zoom with Lou Aronica, who spent more than twenty years working for major book publishers, including gigs as Deputy Publisher of Bantam Books (where he was founder of the Bantam Spectra imprint) and Publisher of Berkley Books and Avon Books.
Eventually, Aronica left the corporate side of publishing behind to sit on the other side of the desk. His first novel, The Forever Year, came out in 2004 with his first nonfiction book, A Million Thanks (a collaboration with Shauna Fleming) coming a year later. Twenty-seven more books have followed, including the New York Times bestsellers The Element and Finding Your Element (both with Sir Ken Robinson), and the national bestsellers The Culture Code (with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille), Blue, When You Went Away, The Journey Home, Anything, and Leaves. The republished edition of The Forever Year hit the USA Today bestseller list.
In the late aughts, he found himself pulled toward the other side of publishing again and, with literary agent Peter Miller, launched the independent fiction house The Story Plant. Aronica is a former president of Novelists Inc. and a winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Editor.
Item Special Note
This virtual session will take place on June 11 at 3:30 Eastern Daylight Time. By placing a bid you are agreeing to this scheduled time and date. All virtual sessions will be monitored by SFWA personnel. Any attempt by winning bidders to engage in harassment, verbal attacks or discriminatory behavior during the session will result in that person's immediate expulsion from the session, with no refund or make-up provided.
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