This event originally aired on February 2, 2019 at 11:00am EST.
After five years as a literary agent, behind the scenes publisher experience, and almost a decade working directly with thousands of writers, Mary Kole is spilling the deets on how you can gear up for a successful manuscript submission to literary agents or publishers. In this short but jam-packed class, you’ll discover why research is so important, some resources to help you, the top five mistakes that crop up in the slush pile, and what agents and publishing house editors are really looking for. If you’re gearing up to submit, or even if you’re still writing, you’ll want to know this powerful information from an insider’s perspective.
Mary Kole was a literary agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency and Movable Type Management for five years. She sold children’s book projects to all the major houses and has read tens of thousands of queries. Before that, she interned at Chronicle Books and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. She has been writing craft and publishing articles at Kidlit.com since 2009, and published her reference book on crafting middle grade and young adult, Writing Irresistible Kidlit. She lived in the heart of the publishing industry, Brooklyn, NY for three years, and now calls Minneapolis, MN home. Her favorite part of working in publishing has always been digging into manuscripts, and she offers freelance editorial and consulting services to aspiring writers. You can find out more about her on kidlit.com or marykole.com.
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