The Writing Show
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Recap
Moderator:
Rebecca Joines Schinsky writes about books and the publishing industry at her popular literary website, The Book Lady’s Blog. She is a reader, a critic, and a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is also an outspoken advocate of independent bookstores, and her partnership with Richmond’s Fountain Bookstore inspired the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance’s “Get in Bed with a Book Blogger” campaign. Rebecca’s work in blogging and social media has been featured in Publishers Weekly, the LA Times, Shelf Awareness, and Bookselling This Week and has earned her invitations to speak at industry conferences and book festivals nationwide.
Panelists:
Kelly Justice is the owner of Fountain Bookstore, a locally owned independent bookstore in historic Shockoe Slip. She is current president of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and serves on the technology advisory council for the American Booksellers Association.
Kristin Keith is currently the Mid-Atlantic sales representative for W.W. Norton & Company and its affiliates. Previously she was a sales rep for Publishers Group West and the Perseus group, and has been a buyer for Koen Book Distributors (a regional wholesaler based out of New Jersey), and a manager for a Tower Bookstore in Fair Oaks, Va. She is also currently on the NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) advisory committee. Her first bookstore job was as the closing clerk in a Tower Bookstore in Portland, OR, just after graduating with her English Major from Lewis & Clark College.
Julie Schoerke, founder of JKSCommunications, specializes in developing winning book publicity campaigns integrating traditional and new media for authors and publishers and in managing comprehensive publicity campaigns. The roster of books JKSCommunications represents includes New York Times Bestsellers, Indie Next Pick and SIBA Book of the Year nominees as well as numerous national award-winning fiction and non-fiction. The firm has represented authors residing in more than 30 states and four foreign countries and books from The Big Six publishing houses to self-published.

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Meriah Crawford
Alma Katsu
Katherine Neville
John Milliken Thompson
Gigi Amateau
Meg Medina
Steve Watkins
Rebecca Lauren
Valerie O. Patterson
David L. Robbins
Helene Wagner is an accomplished, award-winning screenwriter and film teacher who, for a number of years, worked as a Writer’s Guild Literary Agent. Major Hollywood production companies optioned five of her screenplays, and her thriller, The Tenth Day, was in pre-production as a CBS movie of the week. She is also the founder and director of the
Artisia Victoria Green, an Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary, is an artist-activist whose creative conduits include directing, dramaturgy and writing. Her stage direction has been noted at ETA Creative Arts Foundation (Levee James, The Man Who Saved New Orleans), Chicago State University (227, Crowns, Yard Gal), Lehman College (…So Goes a Nation), Primary Stages – 45th Street Theatre (Harmonies of a Soul), Live Arts (Etchings of Soul Woman), Morgan State University (In the Blood), the SPARC/Theatre IV’s New Voices for the Theatre Festival, and the African-American Repertory Theatre (Hey Little Walter). Artisia was commissioned by Theatre IV to write A Woman Named Truth, a play about the life of Sojourner Truth. The work toured schools nationally from 2002-2004. She also wrote Me7 which was produced by Chicago State University Theatre. Recent dramaturgical credits include ETA Creative Arts Foundation’s productions of Herbert III and Contributions by Ted Shine and Daniel Beaty’s Tearing Down the Walls. She is an active member of the Black Theatre Network.
V. Mark Covington