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Beyond the Book: Creating a Writing Career

Recorded

January 19, 2022

Duration

2 Hours

Cost

$35

Subject

Publishing

Topic

Business

Stop thinking about your book and start thinking about your writing career.

Most writers don’t think beyond writing “The End,” but if you intend to be a professional author, you need to have a plan and make smart career choices to stay on the path to meet your long-term goals—from mapping your next books out, to landing the right agent, and signing with the right publisher.

Chantelle Aimée Osman, the editor of Agora Books, discusses a solid strategy for laying the foundations to career success.

  • How to diagnose your manuscript is ready, standard editing mistakes new authors make and how to avoid them.
  • Starting to build your team: finding the right agent, and how to get your query to the top of the pile (finding agents: including having more than one agent for film, foreign, etc., how to know if they’re right for you, query letter, synopsis, pitching: in person and in writing). 
  • Building your team, step two: finding the right publisher (the difference between small, independent and major, considerations in making these decisions as it relates to an author’s overall career plan).
  • Ways to make money writing while you write.
  • Identifying long-term goals and interim plans to make money and build your brand.

Host

Chantelle Aimée Osman
Chantelle Aimée Osman (she/her) is acquisitions editor at Lake Union Publishing, and the former editor of Agora Books, an award-winning imprint focusing on socially and culturally unique crime fiction and horror from publisher Polis Books. Since its founding in 2019, Chantelle's Agora titles  won three International Latino Book Award medals, been nominated for Edgar, Stoker, Dagger, Anthony, […]

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