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IVORY TOWER AND COUNTING
HOUSE:
Opportunities for Academics in Trade Publishing & Motion Picture
Production
Workshop by Kenneth Atchity (Ph.D. Yale '71),
Presenting the potential in the commercial marketplace for academics.
The goal is to make each attending faculty member INFORMED
about the prospects available in commercial trade publishing and film
production, with a step by step plan about how to evaluate his own
abilities and to pursue those possibilities.
Atchity (Georgetown A.B.) is former chairman of Occidental College's
comparative literature program, former Fulbright Professor to the
University of Bologna, and author of trade reference books including
His academic books include:
- Homer's Iliad: The Shield of Memory (University
of Illinois)
- Italian Literature: Roots and Branches
(Yale University Press)
He resigned his tenured position in 1987 to devote full-time to writing,
producing, and literary management.
Ken is president of Atchity Editorial/Entertainment
International, Inc., a literary management and motion picture
production company with 20 TV films to its credit and presently with
clients' films in development at HBO, New Line Pictures, Walt Disney
Pictures, Propaganda Films, etc. His most financially significant
sale was Steve Alten's Meg,
in a 2-book deal to Doubleday-Bantam for $2.1 million, with dramatic
rights to Disney for $700,000-against $1.1 million.
Professional and academic clients include:
- James Sagner, Cash-flow Reengineering and the
Savvy Investor
- Jerry Blaskovich, Anatomy of Deceit
- Marc Gardner, The Columbia Malignancy
- Lucy Papillon, When Hope Can Kill
- Tim Hoerr, Right Where You Are
- Randy Borman, Minister of the Forest
- Margaret Morris, The Great Pyramid Puzzle
and Jesus-Augustus
- Linda McCallister, The Language of Love.
You can evaluate whether it reached stated goals by an evaluation
form asking whether significant opportunities were offered and all
questions answered.
Target participants should be all faculty, tenured or untenured, seeking
greater exposure outside the campus or seeking financial betterment.
For information on booking
Call 323 932 0407
Email jp@aeionline.com.
Or write to us at:
518 S. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90036
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