Whether you’re at the idea stage or in the home stretch, this weekend will show you how to navigate the competitive world of book publishing and get your project sold. In this workshop, you’ll learn:

• The marketability of your idea, and how to make it more so
• How to pitch an agent for representation and write the perfect query
• What publishers and agents are really looking for and what they hate
• How to avoid the most common rookie mistakes
• Which pages to send to a literary agent as a sample of your work (hint: It’s rarely the very first pages)
• How publishing houses and literary agencies benefit the author
• How to decipher the miasma of advances, royalties, subsidiary rights, foreign rights, and dramatic rights

This retreat comes with guaranteed inappropriate conversation and other basic essentials for unleashing creativity and unlocking buried memories.