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Lucinda Halpern | Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author

Join this special event for the book launch and conversation with Amazon bestselling author Lucinda Halpern, The New York Times bestselling author Chris Guillebeau, and Senior Editor at Crown and Currency Leah Trouwborst!

Lucinda Halpern, discusses her new Amazon bestselling book, Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author, alongside Penguin Random House book editor Leah Trouwborst.

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Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent with over 15 years experience, and the founder of Lucinda Literary, based in New York where she represents New York Times and internationally best-selling authors in the categories of personal development, popular science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction. Her classes and coaching programs have been taught to hundreds of writers worldwide, and became the inspiration for Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author (Hay House; Penguin Random House; February 6th, 2024). Learn more at getsignedbook.com and follow Lucinda Halpern on Instagram and Twitter.

Chris Guillebeau is the The New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, Side Hustle,The Happiness of Pursuit, and other books. During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday. His daily podcast, Side Hustle School, is downloaded more than two million times a month. He also writes the newsletter A Year of Mental Health at yearofmentalhealth.substack.com.

Leah Trouwborst is a Senior Editor at Crown and Currency. She acquires a range of expert-driven and narrative nonfiction in the big think, science, business, technology, current events, and memoir categories, and is particularly interested in books that draw on original research or reporting, reveal hidden patterns shaping social, economic, or environmental outcomes, offer new language for understanding the human experience, or present counterintuitive frameworks for thinking and living well. Over the course of her career, she has worked with Julie Zhuo, KC Davis, Annie Duke, Frank Abagnale, Marie Forleo, Ryder Carroll, Christian Davenport, Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy, and Nicole Walters, among other best-selling and award-winning writers. Previously, she has held positions at Simon Element/S&S and Portfolio/PRH, where she acquired and edited four New York Times bestsellers and ten Wall Street Journal bestsellers.

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Cost:
FREE
Date:
Tuesday, February 20
6pm–8pm
LOCATION:
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