Rick Frishman '76, founder of Planned Television Arts (a national book publicity company) and best-selling author, will give others advice in a session entitled "How to Get Published in America."
Frishman's talk will be at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 16, in Emerson Suites. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The talk is part of the Park School Writing Award Speaker Series. Last year's speaker was travel and feature writer Susan Orlean.
About Rick Frishman
Rick continues to work with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Wiley, Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Penguin Putnam, and Hyperion Books. Some of the best-selling authors he has worked with include: Mitch Albom, Bill Moyers, Stephen King, Caroline Kennedy, Howard Stern, President Jimmy Carter, Mark Victor Hansen, Nelson DeMille, John Grisham, Hugh Downs, Henry Kissinger, Jack Canfield, Alan Deshowitz, Arnold Palmer, and Harvey Mackay.
Prior to PTA, Rick worked as a producer of the Barry Farber Show at WOR-AM in New York City.
Rick has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and more than a dozen TV shows nationwide. He has appeared as a guest on Oprah and on Bloomberg TV numerous times. He has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Selling Power magazine, New York Post, and scores of other publications.
He is the co-author of eight books, including national best-sellers Guerilla Publicity and Networking Magic. He recently launched the popular four-book series, Author 101.
Rick's new book, Where's Your Wow? (with co-author Robyn Spizman), was released by McGraw Hill earlier this year.
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