Updated Profiles for March 23 Seminar

We’ve got an amazing lineup of presenters for Tuesday night! Thanks for all your responses. You guys rock! We hope you signed up early to secure a seat, because it’s going to be standing room only for our first ever six-speaker evening.

Our smorgasbord plate of presenters is officially full, and we’ve got some tasty morsels for you to sample. Along with the film production adventures of Deborah DeSnoo, you’ll also hear from five other talented and passionate members of our Media Tectonics community. Read more

Media Tectonics Career Conversations with Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler is a novelist, former CIA operative, and recovering lawyer. Here he speaks with Doug Jackson and Cindy Mullins of Media Tectonics, high above the Tokyo skyline in the 49th floor executive suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. His sharp-edged, realistic novels about an enigmatic and conflicted assassin named John Rain have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year and appear in nearly twenty languages. In 2009 Sony Pictures turned Barry’s first book, Rain Fall, into a movie starring Gary Oldman. His seventh and newest novel, Fault Line, launches a new subgenre—the blogosphere thriller. Barry earned a black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center in Tokyo, and lives alternately in Japan and the Bay Area.
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The Windup and the Pitch: Selling Great Big Ideas

Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Place: International House of Japan, 4F; here’s a map

We’ve been having the time of our lives this past year, introducing you to our amazing, inspiring friends and acquaintances. Our March seminar is no exception, because it may include you, too. Along with the film production adventures of Deborah DeSnoo, we’re going to hear from other talented and passionate members of our Media Tectonics community. Read on to find out more! Read more

Garr Reynolds: Presentation Zen & Book Publishing

Date: February 15, 2010
Place: International House of Japan
Subject: Presentation Zen & Book Publishing

Want to hone your communication skills and get your point across in the most effective way possible? Got an idea for a book, but aren’t sure how to put all the pieces together? Wondering what it’s like to work with a publisher and how much control you’re likely to have over the final product? This month’s “Combination Plate” seminar offers you valuable insights from several perspectives—author, editor, designer, translator and publisher. Read more

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