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July 19, 2008 SCWA SPEAKER
Susan Arnout Smith-Award winning author, essayist, playwright and scriptwriter
"Webisodes, Episodes And
How To Market A Bestselling Thriller!”
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Susan Arnout Smith, our featured speaker, is known for several accomplishments. Notably she’s author of “The Timer Game.”
Susan’s award winning talent, knowledge, flexibility, and tenacity has brought her successes, and she will tell us how she became an accomplished writer in many written media’s.
Also an award-winning playwright, Susan is widely recognized for her work as a scriptwriter for many television movies seen on LIFETIME, ABC and CBS. Among her credits she served as an essayist for National Public Radio Weekend-Edition Sunday.
This multi-talented writer will share with us her journey through her writing career from essays, to screenplays, to playwright, and recently selling her two book deal with St. Martin’s Minotaur and obtaining international distribution in ten countries.
“Explosive and terrifying, The Timer Game, an original novel with provocative themes and compelling characterizations, moves along at a pulse-pounding pace. Filled with stomach-churning images and guaranteed to satisfy readers hungry for a fast and furious thriller, The Timer Game is a commendable debut novel from a writer who knows how to write an entertaining, intelligent, and really good medical thriller.”
--Tim Davis, Book Loons
A new emerging book selling technique called “Book Trailer’s” which many authors are now using to promote newly released books is one of Susan’s greatest marketing accomplishments.
Susan has taken full advantage of this “Book Trailer” marketing technique and has developed webisodes of her book “The Timer Game”, which tantalizes the viewer and sells books. Her placement of several short webisodes on the web, are generating many views and interest in “The Timer Game”, and has proven to be successful endeavor.
You can look forward to Susan telling us how she created episodes from the chapters of “The Timer Game” and produced webisodes, thus maximizing use of this new digital marketing.
In order for you to get the maximum benefit of Susan’s experience, you must visit one or both of the webisode sites on the web at http://thetimergame.com/, or http://www.youtube.com/TheTimerGame.
You will be educated, entertained and enlightened with Susan’s expertise in writing, original marketing, and contagious enthusiasm for her craft.
Born in Anchorage, Susan was raised in Bergen Park, CO graduating from Evergreen High School and the University of Colorado in Boulder. She moved back to Alaska and worked on the Alaska pipeline and as a television anchor.
Along with being a mother of two in college Susan lives with her husband in San Diego, CA.
Kathy Porter
Co-VP, Programming
Kathy@grayguardians.com
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