Dave Lambert
Editor – Lambert Editorial
Dave has held a variety of positions in publishing, spending eighteen years as an acquiring editor at Zondervan, most of that time as executive editor for fiction, and more recently, three years as senior fiction editor at Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. David and his wife Cindy work through their own company, Lambert Editorial.
Get To Know Dave
David Lambert, Editorial Director, Author. David is the author of nearly twenty books. He has received numerous awards for magazine articles and short stories published in such places as Virtue, Moody, Story, Christian Parenting Today, Sweet Sixteen, Decision, Montana Magazine, Campus Life, Outreach, and many other periodicals. David has an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Montana. He has held a variety of positions in publishing, spending eighteen years as an acquiring editor at Zondervan, most of that time as executive editor for fiction, and more recently, three years as senior fiction editor at Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. David and his wife Cindy work through their own company, Lambert Editorial.
David Lambert
Lambert Editorial
Pre-Conference Session
Book Proposal Intensive Clinic Dave and Cindy Lambert—Lambert Editorial
Limit: 25 registrants
Prerequisite: Complete and bring with you a working proposal. Once you’ve registered, you can download the template for the fiction or non-fiction book proposal.
Length: 3 hours
A winning book proposal is a tool that entices seven audiences (author, agent, editor, pub board, marketing, creative, and sales) to grasp a contagious vision for a book, and then equips them to successfully play their parts in placing the book into the hands of its ideal readership.
We’ve all heard it said, “Write to your audience, not to yourself.” Good advice! Many authors, however, may know the audience of their book, but have no understanding of the true audience of their book proposal. In this three-hour intensive clinic you will be introduced to the business side of publishing decisions, discover what really happens behind the closed doors of editors’ meetings and publishing boards, and learn how to craft an enticing proposal that captures the interest of editors and publishers.
Broken into four segments, this hands-on interactive clinic will begin with an in-depth presentation, then offer individual time to work on and refine specific proposal elements of your own, then break into small groups for fiction and nonfiction personal feedback and critique, and finally come together again for advice and guidance to launch you into the world of meeting with editors.
General Session (45-Minutes)
- Writers’ Track
Mock Pub Board
Breakout Session
Improve Your Nonfiction with Fiction Techniques
Co-taught with Cindy Lambert
Discover the “secrets” of bringing your nonfiction to life by applying several essential fiction techniques to your writing. Whether your specialty is nonfiction or fiction, you’ll learn how to sharpen several key writing skills in this intense “how to” session.
15-Minute Appointments
Editor – Lambert Editorial
To thrive in today’s publishing world, you need the right set of skills, knowledge of how the industry is changing, and strong market awareness.
Lambert Editorial can help you gain those things. My commitment with every author I work with is that I’ll make sure you’re a better writer at the end of the process than you were at the beginning, and that you’ll become even better on every book I edit for you. And although the publishing world has changed greatly in the past decade, that doesn’t worry me–the Internet and social media offer two new opportunities for every one we’ve lost in our constantly changing publishing world. Let’s talk about where you are in your writing career and how to get from here to where you want to be.
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