Eric D. Goodman
 Agent: Actively Seeking Literary Agent
Baltimore, Maryland, United States Email: edgewriter@gmail.com Eric D. Goodman has been writing since that grade-school story assignment turned him on to the craft more than a quarter century ago.
You can listen to Eric reading his fiction on National Public Radio here.
http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-587318.mp3
By day, Eric is Editor of the third-most-popular electronic newsletter in the world, ENEWS, for which he won the prestigious Gold Award from the Newsletter on Newsletters. ENEWS boasts a subscription list of more than half a million subscribers.
The information booklets and media materials Eric writes and edits have been read by millions of people. They are mailed to more than two million people every year.
Eric also works as a public relations writer for hire. He is the Public Relations Director for the Maryland Writers Association and does PR for the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference and the Spencer Litereary Hotel in the Chautauqua Institution.
Eric’s work has been published or is forthcoming in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Review, The Baltimore Sun, Writers Weekly, On Stage magazine, The Potomac, JMWW, Slow Trains, Scribble Magazine, Coloquio, Travel Insights, To Be Read Aloud, Neck of My Guitar, The Federal Voice, Write and Publish Your Book, and Write Here Write Now.
He writes a weekly "Lit Bit" column for Gather and a monthly "Literary Life" column for Coloquio.
Eric is a two-time finalist in Paramount’s Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project, founded by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. He’s also a five-time winner of National Novel Writing Month.
In 2007, Eric's novel, TRACKS, was a semi-finalist in Gather's First Chapters Novel Contest. TRACKS beat out nearly 3,000 other novels and was one of the most widely-read novels in the contest.
Recently, Eric won third place in the Maryland Writers Association Short Works contest and also was presented with one of two Honorable Mentions from The Baltimore Review for his short fiction.
He’s read from his fiction throughout the Baltimore area, including the Baltimore Book Festival, the Baltimore Authors Showcase, the Patterson Theater, XandO, Ukazoo, and the Watermark Gallery.
Eric is a member of The Writers’ Center, America’s premier independent literary center. He’s a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) as well as Baltimore's Creative Alliance and the Maryland Writer's Association, and he is involved with the CityLit Project and Write Here Write Now. He’s a former participant in the Jenny McKean Moore Fiction Workshop at George Washington University.
Eric has been fortunate enough to meet and attend the craft lectures of such renowned authors as John Irving, Tom Wolfe, E.L.Doctorow, Michael Cunningham, Robert Stone, Alice McDermott, William J. Kennedy, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward P. Jones, Madison Smartt Bell, Stephen Dixon, Julia Glass, Geraldine Brooks, Scott Turow, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Neil Gaiman, Alexander McCall Smith, Dana Gioia, Sue Monk Kidd, Bernhard Schlink, Joyce Hackett, Steve Berry, Khaled Hosseini, Sandra Brown, Laura Lippman, David McCullough, John Sanford (John Camp), A.C. Crispin, R.L.Stine, Stephen Hunter, Robert W. Walker, Lisa Scottoline, Jay Parini, Ken Burns, Stephen L. Carter, Augusten Burroughs, D.L. Wilson, Sunshine O'Donnell, Bathsheeba Monk, and Stephen Covey as well as actors John Malkovich, Paul Reiser, Darryl Hannah, Lucy Lui, Robert Culp, Cindy Morgan, Dave (Darth Vader) Prowse and anchors Sam Donaldson and Deborah Norville.
Eric D. Goodman is at work on a new novel and a feature-length screenplay.
He seeks a literary agent for his fiction. Learn more about TRACKS, his novel in stories, at www.train-tracks.blogspot.com
Eric lives in the Baltimore-DC area with his wife, two children and lots of books.
Visit Eric's weblog, WRITEFUL, to fulfill your literary longings: http://www.writeful.blogspot.com/.
Interests: Writing, Editing, Reading, Travel, Movies, Music, long evenings of good food, drink and conversation, and spending time with friends and family.
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: Yes |
