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Your Manuscript's Finished. Now
What? The Skills You Need to Get it Published
with Lynda Rutledge
Dates: Saturday, October 8 from 1 - 4 PM
You've poured your blood, sweat and tears into your
manuscript. You've worked on it for years. And you’ve finally gotten to the
end. What now? Writers give so much of their time and energy to developing the
skills to create a manuscript that they often don't know where to start to get
it published.
Derived from Lynda Rutledge’s popular course at Chicago’s Columbia
College, this three-hour class
will help you develop the skills you need to guide your manuscript toward its best
publication chance by learning about the publishing world. Or, as your
instructor puts it, by comprehending the Why, Where, How and "Oww" of
Submission.
This Class Will
Cover:
• How to
navigate today's ocean of publishing information
• How to research
and compile a list of publishers and agents best suited for your manuscript
• How to create
your perfect query letter
• How to use
rejection to your advantage
Who Should Attend:
• Writers of fiction or narrative nonfiction
• Writers with a finished or near-finished manuscript
• Writers who desire to attain publication submission skills
Do not bring your manuscript. Do bring a notebook, a laptop
if possible, and a one paragraph description of your manuscript. At the end of the course, you can be prepared to send
off your first query letter.
Lynda Rutledge is
a freelance journalist with national and international publishing credits in nonfiction, fiction, and narrative nonfiction.
Her debut novel Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage
Sale is forthcoming in 2012 from Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, and she's a past winner of the WLT's Narrative Nonfiction
Manuscript Competition. While living and working in Chicago, she developed the course as an
adjunct professor for Columbia
College's Fiction Writing
Department while honing her own publishing skills.