First mediabistro.com Book Club Photos

By Jason Boog 

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A standing-room only crowd packed the Copper Tavern in Manhattan earlier this week for the first mediabistro.com Book Club. The four featured writers pictured above read excerpts from their books and offered one-on-one advice to aspiring authors in the audience.

From left to right, the authors were: An Irreverent Curiosity author David Farley, Cemetery Road author Gar Anthony Haywood, Getting In author Karen Stabiner and Museum Legs: Fatigue and Hope in the Face of Art author Amy Whitaker. See all the photos here, all taken by Maggie Yurachek.

After the brief presentation, published authors, aspiring writers, agents, editors, and readers mingled–talking about books all night. The four guests each brought some practical experience for aspiring writers: Farley had turned his travel writing work into a book; Haywood had revived his writing career after years out of the game; Stabiner had turned her journalism into a novel; and Whitaker had built a do-it-yourself book tour to support her book.

Over the next few weeks, we will reprint the writing wisdom that these guests shared with the aspiring writers in the audience. The next Book Club is scheduled for May 12–email GalleyCat with your suggestions.