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Phillip Margolin at the Hoffman Center

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Phillip Margolin at the Hoffman Center

Phillip Margolin at the Hoffman Center

Over 75 people attended the Manzanita Writers’ Series event on Saturday, July 18.  

Phillip Margolin, legal thriller author from Portland, entertained the crowd with anecdotes about his writing life.  The story of how he connected with his agent made the aspiring authors among us groan.  As fate would have it, he re-connected with a buddy from law school–actually his next door neighbor in the dorms.  It turns out he worked as legal counsel for the largest literary agency in New York and connected Margolin with an apprentice agent at the firm.  He’s still with the same agent today.
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