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January 15, 2025

Troubled Waters: Navigating the Agent/Author Relationship

Agent Stacey Graham from 3 Seas Literary Agency will share how to recognize the signs of when your agent/author relationship may be headed for the rocks, what to try to right the ship, and when it's time to head for the lifeboat in this fast-paced presentation. 

Book Pipeline

Book Pipeline connects writers to publishers, agents, and the film industry through competitions and workshops, providing hands-on support to bridge the gap between emerging authors and the industry since 2014.

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Script Pipeline connects writers with producers, agents, and managers, facilitating over $8 million in sales through competitions and ongoing industry support, helping launch major films and secure high-profile representation since 1999.

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Mindset Shift: Set Yourself Up for Writing Success

Recorded

January 11, 2023

Duration

1.5 Hours

Cost

$35

Subjects

Publishing, Screenwriting

Topics

Business, Creative Mind

The beginning of a new year is a great time for authors to set goals: you may want to start (or finish) a draft, find a literary agent, or get published. With goal-setting, of course, comes fear and doubt and resistance. Not to mention the fact outcomes can rely heavily on market conditions, industry trends, and individual agent or editor preferences—all of which are beyond your control. 

In this session, Amy Goldmacher will take you through an interactive process that will give you tools to: 

  • Clearly set—and achieve—tangible goals for the year.
  • Increase your creative confidence.
  • Normalize the writer’s rollercoaster of emotions.
  • Identify and manage resistance when it inevitably comes up.
  • In-session, interactive exercises.

You’ll leave with practical techniques and resources you can use immediately, along with the mindset shifts for writing success, to reach your literary aspirations in 2023 and beyond.

Host

Amy Goldmacher
Amy Goldmacher is an anthropologist, a writer, and a book coach, which means her career has centered around transforming information for good. An excerpt from her flash memoir in the form of a glossary won the 2022 AWP Kurt Brown Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Amy’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New […]

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