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PUBLISHING: w/ Agent Rayhané Sanders
February 23, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
$150We have the great privilege of hosting Rayhané Sanders, literary agent at large, for a publishing seminar Yes, Rayhané represents our own Lidia Yuknavitch. Come to this seminar and have the often-intimidating world of querying and agents and publishing demystified for you by one of the best and brightest.
- Publishing Seminar on Saturday 2/23/18 from 11:00AM – 1:00PM includes:
- A Publishing Overview: what an agent does, the Big 5 Publishers vs. Indies, what the publication process looks like, the $$ of publishing, etc.
- The dos and don’ts of The Query Letter
- Non-fiction Book Proposals, including example proposals
- Q&A
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!
Rayhané Sanders attended NYU and began her publishing career at Newsweek Magazine. She then moved to book publishing, holding positions at Penguin Group USA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and William Morris Endeavor, where she worked with New York Times bestselling authors and recipients of such honors as the PEN/Hemingway Award, PEN/New England Award, Guggenheim and Wallace Stegner Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts grants, and more. Rayhané began to represent authors at WSK Management, where she worked with a slew of internationally bestselling authors and added a New York Times bestseller and winners of the Hopwood Award, Oregon Book Award, and Massachusetts Book Award, among others, to her list.
She has been a literary agent at premier boutique agency Massie & McQuilkin (whose clients include Roxane Gay, Jesmyn Ward, Kevin Young, Tom Perrotta, Dan Chaon, Kelly Link, and many more) for 4 years; and is on the lookout for literary and historical fiction, upmarket book club fiction, propulsive narrative nonfiction, story and essay collections, and select memoir. She is interested in fresh voices telling fresh stories we haven’t heard before (including for YA audiences); and is particularly fond of immigrant stories and stories concerned with race, sexuality, specific cultural settings, cross-cultural themes, and notions of identity. Her list includes Lidia Yuknavitch, Kerry Cohen, Jonathan Weisman, Devin Murphy, Janet Beard, Maureen Stanton, and other bestselling and award-winning authors.
She is also an independent book editor, offering editorial services (from developmental edits and line edits, to query consultations, to everything in between) to non-clients on a per-project basis. You may reach her in that capacity at rss.editorial@gmail.com. Check out www.rayhanesanders.com for more information.