Technology breaking barriers for Gen Y authors
Category: Keeping Up With Gen Y
July 6, 2011 | BY Tamara Bell
Do you have a story you want to share with the world? Have you written a book, but now you’re unsure of the next step?
Laurie McLean, an agent at Larsen Pomada Literary Agents in San Francisco, joins Keeping Up with Gen Y to share her expertise for how Gen Y writers can become published authors. She also explains how technology is leveling the playing field between agents and authors.
MORE ABOUT LAURIE MCLEAN
Laurie McLean, literary agent, Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents
Laurie McLean is an agent at Larsen Pomada Literary Agents in San Francisco. She represents adult genre fiction (romance, fantasy, science fiction, horror, westerns, mystery, suspense, thrillers, etc.) as well as children’s middle grade and young adult books.
For more than 20 years Laurie ran an eponymous public relations agency in California’s Silicon Valley. She is wise in the ways of marketing and publicity, negotiation, editing and a host of other business-critical areas. She is also a novelist herself, so she can empathize with the author’s journey to and through publication.
She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the State University of New York and a Master’s Degree at Syracuse University’s prestigious Newhouse School of Journalism. Laurie also is Dean of the newly created San Francisco Writers University.
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Tags: authors, e-publishing, featured, Gen Y, literary agent, writing
About the Author
Tamara Bell: Tamara Bell is the editor of Y Gen Out Loud. She began her journalism career as a reporter in Dallas, Texas. A few years later, she moved into politics and government, working for both Democratic and Republican members of the Texas Legislature. When not working on Y Gen, Tamara is a lecturer in the Advertising Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Tamara has a B.A. in Journalism from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin.
