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Query and Proposal Basics
How to Pitch to Agents and
Publishers
Don't miss the San Jose
premier!
Sunday,
May 23, 2010
9
a.m.-5 p.m. (with a 1-hour lunch break)
1590
Oakland Road, Suite B114, San Jose,
CA 95131
$95
Before a
literary agent agrees to represent you or a publishing house offers you a
publishing contract, they must read your nonfiction book proposal.
Neither
agents nor acquisitions editors will read your nonfiction book proposal until
they have first read your query letter; after they read the query letter they
may request your book
proposal.
Your query
letter has to be good enough to entice an agent or editor to want to read your
proposal. Your nonfiction book proposal has to be good enough to serve as the
publishing company’s business plan for your book.
That’s why
you must learn how to write a top-notch query letter and proposal for your
nonfiction book.
In this class, you will learn:
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The
pitching process
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What goes into
each section of a nonfiction book proposal and why
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What goes into
each paragraph of a nonfiction query letter and why
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What agents
and acquisitions editors are looking for aspiring authors
During the class you will:
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Start writing
your query letter
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Begin writing
your proposal section by section
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Learn how to
write a pitch
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Practice your
pitch
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Begin working
on a promotion plan
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Come up with
an action plan to build a “platform” (if you don’t have one)
Register with a friend and save $10
each.
If you want to have your book traditionally published, YOU CAN’T AFFORD NOT
TO TAKE THIS WORKSHOP.
Register
for Query
and Proposal
Basics
in San Jose on May
23 by paying with
Paypal.
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