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Join Joy Radio for the seventh in the series of shows 
promoting Words & Music Writers’ Conference — a literary feast in New Orleans. For a glimpse of this festival, dedicated to good writing, coming up November 28-December 2, tune in September 13 at 10:00 a. m. EDT, to hear Webster Younce, Senior Editor at Free Press: Simon & Schuster and Ginny Smith Younce, Senior Editor at The Penguin Press discuss issues as how to get a book before a good editor at a first class publishing house? How editors take the hand of a writer and walk them through the complex maze of making a success out of writing fiction and narrative non-fiction? Why developing writers should register for Words & Music?
Visit Words & Music or e-mail Faulkhouse@aol.com to learn more about the conference and to sign up today.
Webster Younce is Senior Editor at Free Press/Simon & Schuster, having previously held senior editor posts at Henry Holt, Houghton Mifflin, and Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin, Germany, where he was responsible for Suhrkamp’s English-language and international literature program. His authors have included James Kynge, winner of the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year; Whitbread Award-winning historian John Guy; essayist Joseph Epstein; travel-write and novelist Paul Theroux; political commentator Jonathan Chait; National Book Award finalist Ward Just, and novelist Jonathan Miles.
Ginny Smith Younce is a native of Macon, GA. She is a Senior Editor at The Penguin Press and has worked with authors including Daniel Yergin, Pamela Druckerman, Gary Marcus, Rana Dasgupta, Emily Oster, Marja Mills, Ann Napolitano, Paula Broadwell, Gay Talese, Kenji Yoshino, Andrew Delbanco, Daniel J. Sharfstein, Jeet Thayil, Edward Behr, Mario Batali, Jessica Stern, Simon Schama, Thurston Clarke, Steven Solomon, Sue Roe, and Nate Silver. Prior to coming to Penguin, she worked at Ecco/HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. She has a degree in History with Honors from Yale University and a two year Acting Course Certificate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).