Primeiro Festival Literário no Second Life
Hoje irá rolar um festival de literatura no Second Life. Haverá oficinas, debates e palestras. Veja abaixo a circular do grupo de que participo, o Writers of SL. (Não irei traduzir, afinal, será tudo em inglês mesmo. Quanto à camiseta da foto abaixo, eu mesmo a fiz. Trata-se de Dostoiévski abraçado a uma gata.)

SL Literary Festival
Saturday, December 16Schedule of workshops, classes and speakers
Classes generally run one hour each and will be located on the South Lawn.
3:00 PM
PUBLISHING
INDUSTRY/AGENTING
William Fresse, real life literary agent Will Francis at Greene & Heaton Literary Agency in London, will speak about the publishing industry, what agents do and the process of taking a book from typescript to publication. Question and answer period afterward.
Will Francis joined Greene & Heaton, a London-based literary agency, in 2003 after working at Random House and PFD, and is actively building a list of his own clients. He is interested in literary fiction, crime, science fiction and fantasy, as well as a wide range of non-fiction, including history, biography, politics, philosophy, popular science, popular culture, art and literary criticism. His clients include Jonathan Jones, Tim Radford and Jordan Goodman.Book Collecting & Care
An introduction to book collecting and the care of books: different styles of collecting, how to chooses the best books, where to find them, how to get the best value for money and how to care for your collection so it stays looking its best! Will include a handout with information and resources.Coelacanth Seurat in RL is a professional editor/writer and collects and sells rare books. In SL, she runs an experimental bookstore, Coelacanth Books, in Changmi (98, 252, 95) and writes for several in-world publications.
4:00 PM
FREELANCE WRITING
AND EDITING FOR RENT MONEY

