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Join us for the 2007 TAA Conference at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo
in downtown Buffalo, NY, June 22-23
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Book Raffle
IIL Publishing, New York will raffle four books at the 2007 TAA Conference
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Coming to Buffalo?
Put these two books on your reading list
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic)
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Mentoring Sessions
Several veteran authors have agreed to serve as mentors at the conference.
Attendees will be able to sign up at the conference registration desk
for 15-minute sessions with a mentor. A list of mentors will be available
soon.
Roundtable Discussions
Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Choose from 10 different moderated roundtable discussions related to
textbook and academic authoring.
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Dinner at The
Anchor Bar
Thursday, June 21, 6 p.m.
The restaurant where Buffalo-style wings were invented
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Buffalo, NY Waterfront
Tour
Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Take a guided tour of the Buffalo waterfront
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Karpeles Manuscript
Musuem and Library Tour
Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
View Walt Disney illustrations and documents, among others
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Social Networking
Event: A Chartered 3-hour Dinner Cruise Aboard the Grand Lady
Friday, June 22, 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Four-hour Guided
Tour to Niagara Falls (American side)
Saturday, June 23, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Tour full.
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Free
one-on-one sessions with an authoring attorney or literary agent
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Sessions
Stephen E. Gillen
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Secrets to Successful
Publishing Contract Negotiation
Presenter: Stephen E. Gillen, Authoring Attorney, Greenebaum Doll &
McDonald
Friday, June 22
2:45 - 3:45 p.m.
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Learn the keys to
successful publishing contact negotiation from an experienced authoring
attorney. Gillen will take the audience through role-playing exercises
employing a book publishing model.
About the presenter
Stephen E. Gillen is an attorney practicing in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
concentrating on publishing and entertainment transactions and disputes,
internet issues, advertising law, computer law, copyrights, trademarks,
technology transfer, trade secrets, and related matters. Prior to entering
private practice in 1994, Gillen served for 8 years as house counsel
for an educational publisher, and before that as an executive editor,
editor, freelance writer, and published book author. In addition, Gillen
has served on copyright and permissions committees with the Association
of American Publishers. He has written and spoken nationally on various
publishing and copyright topics and teaches a course in Media Business
and Law at the University of Cincinnati and a course in Electronic Media
Law at the College Conservatory of Music. He currently serves on the
Council of Advisors to the Text and Academic Authors Association, the
Board of Trustees of Voyageur Media Group, Inc., and is a member of
the Authors Guild. Gillen is admitted to practice in Ohio and before
the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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