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PUBLISHING: Literary Agent Rayhané Sanders Webinar + Consultations
October 17, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
$125We have the great privilege of hosting Rayhané Sanders, literary agent at Massie and McQuilkin who represents our own Lidia Yuknavitch, for a 90-minute webinar on Publishing (with ample opportunity for Q&A) on Saturday October 17, 2020. at 1PM Pacific Time.
In addition to the webinar, Ms. Sanders is taking on ten private manuscript consultations. Over the course of a 20-minute Zoom session, she will give you feedback from an agent’s point of view on the first 30 pages of your manuscript, submitted ahead of time. (A note: Ms. Sanders comes from New York publishing, and is very encouraging but also very direct!) The deadline for submitting your 30 pages will be October 1st and consultations will be scheduled throughout the day Sunday October 18th. As of 8/31/20, manuscript consultations have sold out. Please contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com to be waitlisted.
The cost of the seminar is $125. The cost of a 1-on-1 consultation is $200.
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Publishing Seminar on Saturday 10/17/20 from 11:00AM – 12:30PM includes:
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A Publishing Overview: what an agent does, the Big 5 Publishers vs. Indies, what the publication process looks like, the $$ of publishing, etc.
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The dos and don’ts of The Query Letter
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Non-fiction Book Proposals, including example proposals
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Q&A
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If you have any questions, please contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com, and not Rayhané directly. If we need to relay a question to her, as her hosts, we are happy to do that. Now let’s get those books published!