Mona Zhang

mona.zhang@adweek.com

Mona is the Social Editor at Adweek. Previously, she was the Editor of SocialTimes and Social Media Coordinator at Mediabistro.

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Clyde Phillips to Aspiring Screenwriters: ‘Don’t fall in love with your first script too much’

By Mona Zhang on Nov. 5, 2013 - 12:47 PM

During NYC Television Week MediabistroTV talked to Clyde Phillips, bestselling crime novelist and current showrunner for Nurse Jackie. He shares some advice for aspiring writers, and tells why novel writing is not that different f ...

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Authors | Publishing

Pretty Little Liars Author Sara Shepard on How to Write More

By Mona Zhang on May. 22, 2013 - 12:28 PM

In the latest installment of So What Do You Do?, Mediabistro talked to Sara Shepard, author of the bestselling YA series Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game. The prolific writer, who has published 20 books in eight years, talks ...

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Authors Can Promote Eco-friendly Books at Audubon

By Mona Zhang on May. 16, 2013 - 10:05 AM

Audubon, one of the oldest continuously published magazines in the country, has been harvesting some of the best earth-minded writing for more than a century. The pub appeals to the well educated, politically active nature lover.� ...

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Meet the Woman Behind Steve Harvey’s Book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

By Mona Zhang on Mar. 6, 2013 - 12:23 AM

Becoming a published author is usually a tough, demanding mission. But for Denene Millner, it was “a total fluke.” The journalist landed a book deal after writing an article for the New York Daily News, and since then ...

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Writing Advice from Producer of The Tudors, History Channel’s Vikings

By Mona Zhang on Feb. 27, 2013 - 12:39 PM

“My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way,” says screenwriter and producer Michael Hirst. With a bunch of film credits under his belt, along with the award-winning series The ...

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Isabel Wilkerson on the 15 Years It Took to Write The Warmth of Other Suns

By Mona Zhang on Feb. 25, 2013 - 12:41 PM

It’s a pretty big accomplishment for a first-time author to land on the New York Times bestsellers list, but Isabel Wilkerson definitely deserves it. The Pulitzer-prize winning journalist spent 15 years researching and condu ...

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Book Biz | Social Media

OWN Host Tells How Twitter Got Him a Book Deal

By Mona Zhang on Feb. 6, 2013 - 12:45 PM

In three short years, Paul Carrick Brunson has gone from a virtually unknown matchmaker to a best-selling author with his own show on OWN. So, how did he become a “real-life Hitch”? Just in time for Valentine’s D ...

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Authors | People

David Ritz: ‘Write the book you would want to read, not the one you believe you should write’

By Mona Zhang on Dec. 3, 2012 - 1:49 PM

David Ritz has had a successful ghostwriting career, collaborating with everyone from Ray Charles to Joe Perry, and written quite a few novels too. In the latest installment of Mediabistro’s Hey, How’d You Do That? se ...

Pitch Your Fiction to Manhattan

By Mona Zhang on Nov. 9, 2012 - 3:02 PM

After a somewhat rough start, Manhattan is starting to “hit its stride,” says EIC Cristina Cuomo. The pub, which launched in the midst of the financial crisis, is unlike other city mags since it’s more like a nat ...

Write for Thinking Mothers in Brain, Child

By Mona Zhang on Oct. 5, 2012 - 12:29 PM

Brain, Child is not your typical parenting pub. It’s as much a literary mag as it is a parenting one, so it wants writers who can pen more than the usual service angle of most family mags. The brainy book recently switched leade ...

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