WHEN: Whenever you want!
WHERE: Your favorite watching device (a link to the class and a PDF of the slide deck will be emailed to you after your payment)
HOW MUCH: $150
Are you working on your query but aren’t sure if you’ve really nailed it?
Have you been querying but aren’t getting requests?
Do you have questions about comp titles and categories?
Welcome to Queries That Worked, where we take a deep dive into query letters from three of our NCWR alums that landed them literary agents AND book deals.
We’re so proud of our alums and want to share their great achievements with you! In observing and discussing the key points of their queries, we hope you’ll walk away better informed about what agents want, and how you can make your book stand out–and get requested!
In this three-hour course you’ll learn:
- The best way to begin a query.
- Helpful tools for identifying the best comp titles.
- How to write a succinct and informative author bio.
- How to find the agents who will connect with your work.
- The evolution from successful query to jacket copy.
We’ll explore the three queries, and understand what made each of these catch the eye of a literary agent. We’ll discuss how a query can go on to inform an agent’s pitch to an editor, and then how that pitch–and your query, even–can influence the final jacket copy of the book.
This course happened live on September 7th, 2024. You may download and watch the class at any time!
P.S. All sales are final. We are not able to offer refunds as we use a third party to collect funds. We plan to keep this course available in perpetuity, however, purchase of the course will allow you the ability to access it for the next year.
Your teacher!
Join independent editor and founder + director of Northern California Writers’ Retreat, Heather Lazare, as she walks you through what it takes to create a query that makes an agent want to say YES. From her early days reading the slush pile at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, Heather honed her query-reading skills, and then went on to work for both Random House and Simon & Schuster, where she was a senior editor. Heather left corporate publishing in 2013 to start her own editorial business, and currently helps writers with their queries (and manuscripts!) and has taught courses on queries and publishing at Stanford Continuing Studies. Her knowledge of the publishing industry will illuminate why these queries worked, and what you can do for yours.