Helene Atwan, Beacon Press & Howard Yoon, Ross-Yoon Agency

Joy Radio is featuring a series about a great resource for writers, Words & Music, A Literary Feast in New Orleans. For a glimpse of this festival, dedicated to good writing, coming up November 28-December 2, tune August 23 at 11:30 a. m. EDT, to hear Helene Atwan, director of Beacon Press, with Howard Yoon, a partner at Ross-Yoon Agency, both non-fiction experts,discuss issues such as How to get your book read at a first class publishing house? How to maneuver the complex maze of creating non-fiction? Why writers should register for the Words & Music.  Helene began her career at Random House and has worked at Knopf, Viking, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Simon and Schuster. http://beacon.org. Howard, an agent for 20 years, specializes in narrative nonfiction, history, science, religion, culture, business and food. http://rossyoon.com. Visit http://wordsandmusic.org  or e-mail Faulkhouse@aol.com to learn more about the conference and to sign up today.
Future Joy Radio shows on Words & Music: April Eberhardt, April Eberhardt Literary, specializing in new era publishing, with Brandy Rivers, literary manager/producer for film and television at Gersh Agency; Carole Desanti, Penguin editor and author of The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R., with Deborah Grosvenor, Grosvenor Literary Agency, both fiction experts; Webster and Ginny Younce, editors at Simon & Schuster and Penguin, respectively.
To listen to W&M archived shows visit http://pattiewelekhall.com/joy-radio-2/2011-guest-calendar-joyradio/