Awritergoesonajourney is hosting a live chat with two high ranking editors next Saturday, 14th of November at 11am (EDST, Sydney time). Kevin Doughten from Penguin and Timothy O’Connell from Random House will be joining us live from the US to talk about the industry and answer questions. You can be a writer of any genre (including non-fiction!).

**New** Now also including Michael Signorelli from Harper Collins and agent Robert Guinsler!

**NewNew** Justin Taylor, author and editor for HarperCollins is also coming!

No sign ups, no registration, no costs!

This special event is brought to you by Awritergoesonajourney, the technological host, and Writing Away Retreats.

Getting there: To get to the chat, go to Awriter site, hover over 'WriteSpace' and click on Chat Rooms (it has a space for a password, don't worry about that.) OR use this link

Using the chatroom: Click here for details on how to use the chat, change the design, or add emoticons or send private messages.

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About the guests

Kevin Doughten:

Kevin Doughten is an associate editor at Viking Penguin specializing in nonfiction. He enjoys working with writers of all stripes, including memoirists, essayists, journalists, and has a particular interest in twentieth-century history, the arts and outsider stories.

Timothy O'Connell

Tim O’Connell is an Associate Editor at Vintage and Anchor Books in the Knopf/ Doubleday Publishing Group of Random House. He has acquired and edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction for the Vintage and Pantheon lists. He looks for investigative nonfiction that will teach him something about a subject he thought he knew a lot about. He likes fiction that strange, singular, borderline sentimental, complicated, straight forward, funny, dark, voice driven, and utterly original.

Michael Signorelli
Michael Signorelli is an editor at HarperCollins Publishers.  Michael lives for fearless yet disciplined fiction and believes in a bright future for publishing.

Robert Guinsler:
Robert Guinsler has been with Sterling Lord Literistic since 2000. His primary interests include literary and commercial fiction, journalism, narrative nonfiction with an emphasis on pop culture, science and current events, memoirs, and biographies.

Justin Taylor

Justin Taylor is the author of the short story collection Everything Here is the Best
Thing Ever. He is also the editor of The Apocalypse Reader. His website is www.justinDtaylor.net