Start Date: Friday May 16, 2014.
Tuition: $199Receive Personal One-on-One Time With An Agent
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As many writers know, agents
and editors won't give your
work more than ten pages or so to make an impact. If
you
haven't got them hooked by then, it's a safe bet you won't be
asked for more
material. Make sure you've got the kind of
opening they're looking for! In this
invaluable weekend event,
you'll get to work with an agent online to review and
refine
the first ten pages of your novel. You'll learn what keeps an
agent
reading, what are the most common mistakes that
make them stop, and the steps
you need to take to correct
them. The best part is that you'll be working
directly with
an agent, who will provide feedback specific to your
work.
Here's how it works:
- On Friday morning, May 16, you will gain access
- to a special 60-minute
online tutorial presented by
- agent and editor Paula Munier. It will help you
clarify
- what you should be looking for in your work.You will
- also be notified by
email which agent you'll be working
- with on Friday. (All times noted are Eastern Time).
- After listening to the presentation, you'll
spend
- Friday evening revising
your first ten pages as necessary,
- given the guidelines provided in the
presentation,
- and you'll email those pages directly to Paula or one
- of four
additional agents from Talcott Notch Literary,
- including Gina Panettieri,
Rachael Dugas, and
- Jessica Negron, by Saturday morning at 10:00 AM (ET).
- They will spend all day
Saturday reviewing their
- assigned
pages and providing feedback as to what works
- and what doesn't.
- All pages with notes will be returned to
participants
- by 11:00 AM (ET) Sunday morning. Throughout the day
- on Sunday, you'll work to revise your
pages based on the
- agent's specific feedback. From 1:00 to 4:00 PM, Paula,
- Gina,
Rachael, and Jessica. will be available to answer
- questions and provide
additional feedback via the
- Writer's Digest University message boards. Only
registered
- students can access these boards. You'll also be able to
- ask question
of your fellow students. Feel free to share
- your work and gain support from your
peers.
- By 10:00 PM (ET) Sunday night, you'll return your final
- revised pages to
your assigned agent for review. They will
- spend the next week reading the
revised submissions assigned
- to them, and will provide a final brief one-or-two
sentence
- critique of your progress no later than May 25.
Please note that any one of them may ask for
additional
pages if the initial submission shows serious promise.
*Please note
that all attendees should have the first 10
pages of their novel finished and
ready to submit to the
agent prior to the beginning of the event.
Only
registered students can access the Blackboard. You'll also
be able to ask
questions of your fellow students. Feel free to
share your work and gain support
from your peers.
In addition to feedback from from agents, attendees
will also
receive:
- 1-year subscription to the WritersMarket.com literary
-
agent database
- A download of "An Agent's Tips on Story Structures
- that
Sell," an on-demand webinar Andrea Hurst
About the
Agents
Gina Panettieri is President of
Talcott Notch Literary
Services, and has worked as an agent for more than 20
years. She currently represents a full range of adult
and children's fiction and
nonfiction, with an emphasis in
fiction on YA, MG, mystery, fantasy, women's
fiction, horror
and paranormal. In nonfiction, she is particularly seeking
memoir,
business, cooking, health and fitness, pop science, medicine, true crime
and current events. Some of her clients include Nancy Holzner,
author of the new
Deadtown urban fantasy series from Berkley/
Ace Science Fiction, Annabella Bloom,
author of the Wild and
Wanton edition romance hybrid classics Pride and
Prejudice
and Wuthering Heights (Adams Media), Dr. Karyn Purvis, author
of the
bestselling and multi-award winning adoption book, The
Connected Child
(McGraw-Hill),and author and media personality,
Dr. Seth Meyers. She currently
represents an eclectic range of writers, encompassing everyone from a former
head of Security and
Intelligence for NATO Europe, to CEOs of major corporations
and Deans of major medical schools, to stay-at-home writer
moms and amazingly
talented teens. Gina speaks at many
conferences and writing events throughout
the country on
the subjects of securing an agent and getting published.
Paula Munier
Senior Literary Agent & Content Strategist
at
Talcott Notch Literary, has broad experience creating and
marketing exceptional
content in all formats across all markets
for such media giants as Disney,
Gannett, Greenspun Media
Group, and Quayside. She began her career as a
journalist,
and along the way added editor, acquisitions specialist, digital
content manager, and publishing executive to her repertoire.
Before joining
Talcott Notch, she served as the Director of
Innovation and Acquisitions for
Adams Media, a division
of F&W Media, where she headed up the acquisitions
team
responsible for creating, curating, and producing both fiction
and
nonfiction for print, ebook, eshort, and direct-to-ebook formats.
Jessica Negron
has experience working for a diverse range
of
publishers and publications in both an editorial and design
capacity, and she is
now a Junior Agent with Talcott Notch,
taking on a select batch of clients.
She's interested in all kinds
of YA and Adult fiction, but leans toward science
fiction and
fantasy (and all sub-genres), romance (the steamier, the better),
and thrillers.
Rachael Dugas joined Talcott Notch
Literary in 2011. During
her tenure as associate agent, Rachael has judged
contests and
attended conferences in NewYork and beyond, working with groups
such as Writer's Digest, ASJA, YA LitChat, the National
Publicity Summit, and
the Hampton Roads Writers. Recent sales
include titles in young adult and
romance to imprints at Hachette,
Perseus, and Month 9 Books. Rachael is a former
Sourcebooks
editorial intern and a proud Ithaca College graduate. She welcomes
fiction submissions in the following categories: YA, MG, women's fiction,
contemporary and historical romance, historical fiction, and general
commercial
fiction. Her non-fiction wishlist includes memoir with
an amazing voice and
cookbooks or performing arts-related books
with outstanding
platforms.
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