Writer Consultant

Laurie Horowitz

Editor/Teacher: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

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Website • LinkedIn • Santa Monica, CA

Detail-oriented and critical thinker with experience in compiling and editing fiction and nonfiction texts in addition to creating and delivering lessons as well as providing consultancy about editorial matters. History of leveraging effective communication skills to present writing workshops, programs, and masterclasses, as well as secure favorable terms and conditions for film and television rights to literary properties as sold to industry stakeholders. Resourceful leader proficient in organizing and heading events and programs to impart literary knowledge. Establishing rapport and cultivating strong, working relationships with different stakeholders to facilitate collaboration.

Areas of Expertise

Event/Program Management

Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

Developmental Editing

Stakeholder Relationship Management

Lesson Planning/Presentation

Editorial Services/Consultation

Rebranding Functions

Data Management

Team Leadership

Professional Experience

Novelist/Screenwriter, Lifetime Television/William Morrow (a division of HarperCollins division)/Little Brown and Company Santa Monica, CA, 2003–Present

Conceptualize, conduct research, and pitch story ideas to actors, writers, and directors for film and television. Receive approval for ideas, draft each into coherent and cohesive pieces of content, submit for edit, and refine materials based on feedback. Maintain regular communication with editorial staff to send and obtain input about pertinent changes to existing content.

Film and Television

●Penned treatments for film and television.

●Sold books to film and television after synopsizing and pitching idea for sale.

Fiction:

●The Family Fortune, William Morrow, a division of Harper Collins, 2006

●The Mating Season, Bookshots/Little Brown and Company, 2016

●Love Me Tender, Bookshots/Little Brown and Company, 2017

Short Stories:

●Alice’s Geometry, Fiction, Vol.18, #1

●Eavesdropping, Playgirl Magazine, May 1990

●The Elusive One, Dec. 2015, Hollywood Dementia, LLC. (Nikki Finke’s online magazine)

●The Dull One, Feb. 2017, Hollywood Dementia

●In the Frame, May 2017, Hollywood Dementia

●No Money in Poetry, August 2017, Hollywood Dementia

Screenplay

●Abducted, Romantic thriller, Lifetime Television, 2007

Nonfiction:

●Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye by Katherine Sands, The Writer Books, 2004 (Chapter 12: Making Your Book into a Movie)

Additional Experience

Literary Agent, Creative Artists Agency Beverly Hills, CA

Lawyer, Horowitz & Horowitz Needham, MA

Consultant (Editorial Services/Consultation), Westside Writers’ Lab Santa Monica, CA

Nonprofit Writing, Teaching & Production

Historian/Consultant/Literary Events Specialist, Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre (RMBT) Missoula, Montana, 2014-present

●Taught writing to dancers in Italy and Portugal in the summer of 2017 after traveling to each country.

●Contributed to efforts of rebranding VIBE as Ballet Beyond Borders for Festival in January 2018.

●Updated ballet company archives and documented experience of the trip in fall of 2014 to China for Missoulian, specifically from Beijing to Liuzhou and alongside ballet company for diplomatic, cultural exchange.

Essay Contest Coordinator, Ballet Beyond Borders Westchester, CA, 2019

Consultant/Producer, Ballet Beyond Borders Missoula, MT, 2018

●Produced and participated in numerous programs and educational events.

●Moderated panel of diplomacy conference in Mansfield Center, University of Montana.

Consultant/Writer, Global Dance Challenge Vancouver, BC, 2017

●Engaged with celebrity host and wrote the script for the gala.

Consultant/Producer, Vienna International Ballet Experience Missoula, MT, 2016/2017

Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Foundation Instructor, Weekly Fiction Workshop Santa Monica, CA, 2012–2016

City of Santa Monica Instructor, Fiction Writing Workshop Santa Monica, CA, 2015

Writer in Residence, Annenberg Beach House Santa Monica, CA, 2015

●Organized two community events while keeping office hours to help writers complete projects.

Screenwriting Instructor, Dartmouth MALS Program Hanover, NH, 2009

Education

Juris Doctor Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA

Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

●Concentration: Social Thought and Political Economy

Award

Winter Residency Award for January and February 2015 Annenberg Beach House, Santa Monica, CA

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