Want to leave the cubicle behind? Want to learn how to concept and execute a sound business plan? Want to venture on a new career path but don’t know where to begin? Want to learn how to earn a living doing what you’re most passionate about? On Sunday, July 29, four successful female entrepreneurs: Alex Beauchamp, Emira Mears, Lauren Bacon and Michelle Goodman will deliver practical career advice on for women who want to escape the cube.

Leading up to the live chat (which will take place live at 7pm EST/4PM PST on www.writersrevealed.com, rather than on our live podcast show), our guests will post tips and advice to get the conversation started and will introduce themselves to the WR community.

Got questions for our guests? Or are you a female entrepreneur or a budding one and want to leave your tips, advice and secrets for cultivating a successful career? Are you struggling and need advice? Post your comment/question and you’ll be eligible to win a *free* copy of The Anti 9-5 Guide! And remember, you’ll have an opportunity to ask your questions live, in our comments field, 7.29.07!

More about our guests after the jump!
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There are so many ways you can tune into Writers Revealed! Next show is this Sunday, at 7pm EST/4pm PST

1. Click here to listen to the live show
2. Going to miss the show? No worries. Click here to download the podcast
3. Want to call in and chat with our guest? Call (310) 984-7600
4. Want to chat with us? We’ve got a live messageboard
5. Or leave your question in the comments section below.

Enjoy!

Michelle Goodman will be available via live chat to give advice on how you can be a successful entrepreneur. Live chat: 7.29.07 at 7pm EST, here on Writers Revealed.

Late last year, I wrote an article on how to craft a kickass business plan. What you can’t see in the online version of the article are the do’s and don’ts of business plan writing. So I’ve posted them here. But first let me say that the simpler your business model, the simpler your plan can be. It’s when you’re going for the big money (loans, investors) that you need a big beefy plan. A freelance writer, however, can get away with a one- or two-page plan; when you’re a company of one with little overhead, the main purpose of the plan is to get real with your finances (what you have and what you need), identify your target market and competition, and clearly define your goals (e.g., “I want to land three Fortune 500 clients by June 08,” “I want to ten clips in markets like the NY Times and WA Post,” etc).

OK, so without further adieu, my business plan do’s and don’ts…

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Join us on Tuesday, August 21, all day, as we chat about Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, arguably one of the finest novels written in the twentieth century. Leading up to the chat, Bethanne will post her thoughts on Woolf’s novel, themes to discuss, etc. Whether you’ve read To The Lighthouse twenty years ago or you’ve only just discovered it, please join us!

More about Virginia Woolf’s novel & Bethanne’s thoughts after the jump!

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For the past three months, Writers Revealed has introduced you to today’s most buzzworthy writers. You heard Leslie Bennetts discuss choice feminism in The Feminist Mistake, you listed in on a roundtable of accomplished novelists discuss mothers in contemporary fiction, you met Joshua Ferris, author of the poignant novel, Then We Came to the End, you shared your online dating story pitfalls and successes, and you learned of a Chicago riddled with reformers, harlots and politicians. And while we will continue to chat with the finest authors of contemporary fiction and non fiction, we realized there is always room to celebrate the classics and world literature published before 1945.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Writers Revealed Classics - a monthly live chat where we’ll discuss our picks for great classic & world literature. And we invite you to join in on all the fun! Each month we’ll announce our classic selection. Leading up to the day-long chat on the Writers Revealed website, your host will offer her view of the book, including what she loved and didn’t love about the work and themes worthy of discussion. There is no obligation to join, there are no sign-ups, just pop in on the day of the chat to share your view of the book and connect with other readers.

Meet Our Hosts!
Jennifer Bassett, Writers Revealed Classics Host
Jennifer Bassett works in book publishing, is a Senior Editor for Swink magazine, Contributing Editor for KGB Bar Lit, and really likes playing her Farfisa VIP 345 Organ.

Bethanne Patrick, Writers Revealed Classics Host
Bethanne Patrick is a journalist and literary critic whose favorite novel is Middlemarch. She has a master’s degree in English from The University of Virginia and has written for publications and sites including PAGES magazine, The Washington Post Book World, Bookreporter.com, and The Writer Magazine. She has interviewed scores of best-selling authors, including Sue Grafton, Alice Walker, Alexander McCall Smith, Luanne Rice, Brad Meltzer, and more. She is a Contributing Editor at Publishers Weekly, where she blogs as The Book Maven.
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Jamestown is a fantasia on the Jamestown settlement of 1607, the first viable English settlement in North America, set not in the past but in an indeterminate future, some years after an unspecified cataclysmic event. The U.S. has devolved into warring corporate city-states. The settlers, rather than setting out for Virginia from England on three ships in search of gold and a route to the Pacific, set out from Manhattan on an armored bus in search of fuel, food, and uncontaminated water.

About the Author: Matthew Sharpe’s novel Jamestown was published this year by Soft Skull Press. He is also the author of the novels The Sleeping Father and Nothing Is Terrible, as well as the short-story collection Stories from the Tube. He has taught at Columbia University, New College of Florida, the MFA program at Bard College, and the Bronx Academy of Letters, and now teaches in the English department of Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Links
Sci Fi Weekly Review
Bookforum Review
Small Spiral Notebook Interview
Matthew Sharpe reads from Jamestown
Read an excerpt from Jamestown

Do you have a question for Matthew Sharpe? Leave your question in the comments field and if I use it on air, you’ll score a free copy of Jamestown!

There are so many ways you can tune into Writers Revealed! Next show is this Sunday, at 7pm EST/4pm PST

1. Click here to listen to the live show
2. Going to miss the show? No worries. Click here to download the podcast
3. Want to call in and chat with our guest? Call (310) 984-7600
4. Want to chat with us? We’ve got a live messageboard
5. Or leave your question in the comments section below.

Enjoy!

I’m pleased to announce that our pick for December’s Virtual Book Club is Antoine Wilson’s haunting and elegantly written novel, The Interloper. For more details about joining the WR Virtual Book Club, click here!

As assured and sumptuously written as any first novel I’ve encountered–Antoine Wilson’s prose sings and the story he tells here is both clever and compelling. This is writing at its very best.
-T.C. Boyle

And click below to view the trailer for The Interloper.