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Participants - VABook! 2005
Publishing & Exhibitors
Douglas Clegg is the award-winning author of more than a dozen novels, including The Hour Before Dark, Neverland, and The Infinite. Under his pseudonym, Andrew Harper, he writes crime thrillers, including Red Angel. His novel The Hour Before Dark was picked up for film. 3/19 10 a.m.
Matthew Friedman was the principal screenwriter for the guerrilla-style independent feature Moving, directed by his brother Jonathan, winning "Best Screenplay" at Digital Visions Film Festival in Chicago. His followup, All of Creation, earned him acceptance to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. 3/19 noon
Bill Gladstone, literary agent, founded Waterside Productions in 1982 as a video production studio and literary agency. Bill agented the first 2500 books the agency sold including best-selling authors ranging from Dan Gookin, Peter Norton, Danny Goodman, Alan Simpson, and John Levine to Andy Rathbone. 3/19 10 a.m.
Deborah Grosvenor is a former editor (now literary agent) who acquired Tom Clancy's first novel. In book publishing for more than 20 years, she represents fiction, narrative nonfiction, history, biography, politics, current affairs, memoir, self-help, science, humor, and anything Southern. 3/19 10 a.m.
Ross Howell, Jr., is publisher with Howell Press, Inc., which he founded in 1985. The company publishes and distributes fine illustrated books on regional subjects, gourmet & gift, quilts, aviation, history, and transportation. 3/19 noon
Lynn Jamgochian is a visual artist. Her oil paintings will appear in Gravity Lounge throughout the Festival. (See Related Events)
Brian Jud is an author, book-marketing consultant, seminar leader, television host and president of Book Marketing Works, LLC. He is the author of the Publishers Weekly title Beyond the Bookstore and the Marketing Planning CD-ROM that accompanies it. 3/19 4p.m.
Simon Lipskar is an agent at Writers House, a literary agency in New York. He represents a wide range of writers, including major authors in literary and commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction, and young adult fiction. 3/19 10 a.m., 4 p.m.
Terri Long is a graphic designer and multi-media artist in Scottsville. She is a member of the International Society of Altered Book Artists and public radio essayist for the Southern Albemarle Philosophical Society. 3/20 1:30 p.m. (See Related Events)
Maria Massie is a partner at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, a New York literary agency. Her clients include 2004 National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert, Tom Perrotta, Jennifer Chiaverini, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Mark Rotella and Don Lee. 3/19 10 a.m., 4 p.m.
Shannon Ravenel inaugurated the New Stories from the South series in 1986. She serves as Director of Shannon Ravenel Books, an Algonquin imprint. For fourteen years she served as series editor of The Best American Short Stories. 3/18 2 p.m.; 3/19 noon
Rhonda Roebuck teaches Photography and Digital Imaging at Western Albemarle High School in Crozet. She is a collage artist whose work has shown at the McGuffey Art Center and Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville. 3/20 1:30 p.m.
M.J. Rose is the author of five novels including Lip Service and The Halo Effect. Her third novel Flesh Tones was shortlisted for the Connecticut Book Award and her work has appeared in Oprah Magazine and Pages. Rose is also the co-author of Buzz Your Book. 3/19 10 a.m.
Kevin Smokler is the editor of the forthcoming Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times. He speaks at conferences and universities nationwide on the relationship between traditional book publishing and new technologies and is the creator of the Virtual Book Tour. 3/19 2 p.m.
Charles L. ("Pete") Wyrick, Jr., is President and Editorial Director of Wyrick & Company in Charleston, South Carolina, a trade book publisher of fiction and non-fiction books founded in 1986 with over one hundred books in print. 3/19 noon
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