Publishing Etiquette in the Literary World
with Jennifer Landels
Member Price: $18
Non-Member Price is $28
**This event will be recorded. A link to the recording will be emailed to registrants within a week of the session. The recording will be available for 45 days.
Workshop/Event Description
There are hundreds of individual interactions authors and their manuscripts have to make as they climb the ladders of the literary world. Each time you send an email, respond to an edit, create a post, or meet an agent you’re leaving an impression. Find out how you can make it a good one.
We’ll cover dos and don’ts in the areas of • Schmoozing vs stalking: how to approach your literary heroes. • Queries, manuscripts, cover letters, synopses: when, why, and how? • Submissions: how to avoid angering editors. • Rights: when can you use that story again? • Grace under pressure: dealing with rejection, bad reviews, or edits you don’t like. • Shaking the hand that feeds you: ways you can thank the people that put you where you are now. Bring your etiquette questions and polish your publishing manners to become the writer everyone wants to work with.
Intended Audience:
Writers of any skill level
Bio:
Jennifer Landels (she/they) is the Managing Editor of Pulp Literature Press. She holds a BA in Mediaeval English Literature from UBC and may some day return to her doctorate in Arthurian Romance at University College London. She has been a freelance editor since 2002, and co-founded Pulp Literature Press in 2013. Jennifer is a frequent lecturer, blue penciller, keynote speaker, and workshop facilitator at writing events locally and abroad, and has travelled to France, Germany, the UK, and the US to speak and teach at conferences. As JM Landels she writes fantasy and historical fiction, including the bestselling Allaigna’s Song trilogy. In addition to her literary activities she also teaches swordplay from horseback with Academie Cavallo at Cornwall Ridge Farm in Langley BC.
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