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  1. RJ Garside

    Writing Life Page to Pitch: From Idea to Pitch-Ready Manuscript

    Start Date: Monday May 5 End Date: Sunday October 19 Get ready to roll up your sleeves and bring your story to life in this intensive, bootcamp-style writing event designed to take you from a spark of an idea to a polished, pitch-ready manuscript for SavvyAuthor’s Autumn Pitchfest. Whether...
  2. Amy L Bernstein

    Business Get Your Query Package Together with Amy Bernstein

    Authors seeking a traditional publishing path for their novel or short story collection need to polish several pieces of prose before leaping into the fray. A well-rounded query package includes a query letter, log line, pitch, target audience summary, and a few comp titles. (The synopsis is...
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    Business Fix Your Query in Seven(ish) Easy(ish) Steps with Patrick Hopkins

    We begin with me showing examples of bad query writing, then showing how to fix that bad query writing. The students then work on identifying and fixing examples of those problems in their queries. Finally, they show me what they started with and where they are now, and I work with them...
  4. Katkeenan

    Query letter being critiqued by group of agents

    I'm attending the Writers Digest Science Fiction and Fantasy Virtual Conference. There is an opportunity to have a query letter critiqued by a group of agents. Has anyone participated in this in past years? I'm wondering if I should only provide the general text of my query letter or if I...
  5. Martha McKiever

    Hello, fellow writers.

    Hello, I'm a writer of middle grade fiction and member of SCBWI Carolinas. I'm looking forward to taking part in some of the webinars and classes and would be interested in more pitch workshops, since I'm hoping to pitch my MG novel this coming year. My novel's been in the works for almost two...