Getting Your First Novel Published

Getting Your First Novel Published

How Attorneys Can Get Their First Novel Published

Friday, October 20, 2006
Sea Crest Resort, Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Following this course, attendees will be able to:
� Understand what fiction sells
� Create ideas for novels with commercial potential
� Understand how the book publishing business works
� Write a superior query letter
� Understand how to locate and work with the right agent
� Submit novel excerpts prior to completion of your novel
� Submit their novel directly to editors
� Evaluate the utility of unsolicited submissions
� Decide whether to use a book doctor
� Evaluate whether to self-publish
� Know what to realistically expect in their first book contract
� Access the additional resources they need
� Find an agent
� Get their first novel published

FACULTY

Sheree Bykofsky is the co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published and is a New York literary agent who represents some 100 book authors in all areas of adult non-fiction and literary and commercial fiction. Sheree speaks about all areas of publishing at colleges, writers' conferences, and seminars across the country, including the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and she also teaches the publishing overview course at NYU.

Schedule

Friday, October 20, 2006

7:30 - 8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 Introduction: An overview of the day

8:15 - 8:30 Publishing fiction vs. non-fiction: Using your unique legal expertise and training

8:30 - 9:30 Studying the book market: The six secrets of getting published

9:30 - 10:15 Writing the Superior Query Letter: includes exercise reviewing attendees' query letters

10:15 - 10:30 Break and Networking Opportunity

10:30 - 12:00 The Five Reasons You Need an Agent: Locating, obtaining and working with your first agent

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch with Faculty (provided)

1:00 - 1:30 What Agents are Looking for in a New Writer
and Vice Versa: All about the agent/author relationship

1:30 - 2:00 When you don't need an agent: how to work without them

2:00 - 2:45 Perfecting the 30-second Pitch: how to make the most of your meetings with agents and editors- exercise: reviewing attendees' pitches

2:45 - 3:00 Break and Networking Opportunity

3:00 - 3:30 Book Doctors for Attorneys: Advantages and disadvantages

3:30 - 4:00 Subsidiary Rights

4:00 - 4:30 Advances and Book Contracts: What you can expect and need to know

4:30 - 5:00 How Becoming a Published Author is Just Like Becoming a Contestant on Wheel of Fortune

Here's what last years' attendees had to say:
"Excellent & informative"
"[Well] worth the trip here"
"Very helpful for someone trying to get first novel published"
"Great"
"Very informative"
"Excellent! Very informative. I came here knowing
absolutely nothing about this industry and really feel like I know a lot now"
"Extremely useful. Demystified a lot of the �book pub industry'"
"Very fact specific, good how to"
"Excellent practical knowledge clearly relayed"
"Insider tips"
"[Sheree has] great presence & style"
"I truly admire [Sheree's] passion - She is the kind of agent that I want"
"Covered the topic as advertised"