Agents and Queries
Dates: September 4 - 18, 2006
Instructor: Allison Brennan
Course description:
Finding the right agent is essential for all serious writers
at all levels of their career, from unpublished with a completed
manuscript to multi-published. But how do you know when an
agent is right for you? How do you research agents? How do
you write an eye-catching query letter?
What's a good hook and how do you find it? Nothing can replace
a good book . . . but you have to get an agent to request
your manuscript before they can see it's a great story. Agents
receive hundreds of queries a month--that's why a stand-out
query letter is essential.
Week One:
Why do you need an agent? How do you research agents? How
do you find which agent is best for you? Why is a query letter
important? What goes into a stand-out query letter?
Week Two:
Send in your queries! Using the lessons from week one, craft
a query letter to grab an agent's interest. Post it to the
loop and I'll critique the letter on the fly. What works,
what doesn't, and why.
About the Instructor:
Allison Brennan's debut romantic suspense trilogy, THE PREY,
THE HUNT and THE KILL hit the NY Times extended list. Her
work has been called "chilling," "truly terrifying,"
and "sexy and spellbinding." THE PREY was excerpted
in the May 2006 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, and THE HUNT
and THE KILL each earned Top Picks from Romantic Times Book
Club. Her next back-to-back trilogy will be out in early 2007
starting with SPEAK NO EVIL in February.
Visit her website at www.allisonbrennan.com
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