PITCH YOUR BOOK LIVE TO A TOP NYC LITERARY AGENT (AND GET FEEDBACK)
Are you writing a MEMOIR, NON-FICTION NARRATIVE, OR SELF-HELP BOOK?
Are you looking for a literary agent to represent you?
Pitching your book to a literary agent can be nerve-wracking.
But it doesn't have to be...
You just need to be well-prepared and have a professional query letter to read aloud.
We're making our Pitch Party on 4/28 at 11 AM ET effective and fun!
We'll help you write your query letter, and get ready to read it aloud so that, on the day, you know exactly what to do.
This way, you'll be thrilled with yourself for your performance and also with the laser-focused feedback you'll get.
Scroll down to sign up below if you already know you want to pitch - only 1 spot left!
You can use this Pitch Party in two ways:
1. To crystallize your book idea and find out A) what you really want to say and B) the most powerful, sellable way to say it.
OR
2. You can read your query letter for your finished book aloud and, from the live feedback, you can tweak your book (if necessary) so it's better positioned to sell.
You'll learn how the book market works.
You'll learn if your concept is likely to sell.
If an agent doesn't think it will sell, even if they love your story, they won't offer to represent it.
They can't.
They make their living from selling books and if yours isn't likely to sell, they can't spend time on it.
At this Pitch Party, however, a top NYC literary agent is going to share their best market information and advice with you. She cares about helping newer writers.
She loves to teach.
She's kind but she 'shoots from the hip' - so you'll know you're getting top-of-the-industry advice from a seasoned professional who sells at the highest levels of publishing.
If you sign up for the memoir/self-help/non-fiction pitch, you will also receive the recording of the fiction pitches.
You'll have lifetime access to these recordings.
So you'll always have access to a trusted guide who reveals the secrets of how the manuscripts we slave over become published books.
Are you ready to discover the EXCITEMENT of pitching your book or book idea and getting live feedback?
Click the button below to save your spot!
WHO IS OUR NON-FICTION LITERARY AGENT?
Marilyn Allen of The Allen O'Shea Literary Agency.
Marilyn has had the pleasure of working with authors such as Stephen King, Ken Follett, Barbara Kingsolver, John Gray, and Mary Higgins Clark, but currently represents many nonfiction authors including several New York Times bestselling writers. Her focuses are nonfiction, cooking, health, parenting, crafts, self-help, pop culture, and business. She herself has co-authored The Complete Idiot's Guide to Book Proposals and Query Letters (Penguin Books) with her partner Coleen O'Shea.
She has decades of experience selling at the highest levels to editors at all the Big Five publishing houses. She pitches the books, she makes the deals, and she cares about her authors.
She works the contract and is the author's liaison to the publisher through publication and beyond.
She can see how your story could fit into the current (and near future) publishing landscape.
ABOUT THE ALLEN O'SHEA AGENCY
The Allen O'Shea Literary Agency is an author-centered boutique agency. We work closely with our clients to develop proposals and manuscript materials, and continue our involvement with the author's career to assist in developing marketing and publicity campaigns with the client and publisher. We have excellent industry contacts with publishing personnel as well as in the retail and special sales communities. We have established relationships with our foreign agents who assist in selling book rights worldwide. We, or our agents, attend all the major book fairs throughout the world.
Marilyn Allen and Coleen O'Shea focus on core nonfiction categories and featured fiction projects. Their own extensive career experience in editorial, publishing, sales, and marketing of books enhances the goals of their clients. They are regularly called upon to scout for major publishers.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The Pitch Party is on Friday, April 28th at 11 AM ET. (Replays available so don't worry if you can't attend live.)
WHERE IS IT?
Only on Zoom (our October Pitch event will be on Zoom AND in person at The Westport (Conn.) Library's StoryFest).
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?
