One of the hardest parts of submitting your work is ensuring that your query and page are ready to go.
Together, we will get your queries and pages (as many as we can, drawn at random) ready for submission. Even if yours isn’t chosen, you’ll learn how agents think–and take away lessons that will help you long into your submissions process.
The panel will be followed by a Q&A, where you can ask your burning publishing questions of our panel.
This event is open to all genres.
Christina Lopez is an editor at St. Martin’s Press, where she started as an intern in 2021. Her first love was romance novels (shoutout to Nicholas Sparks), and she is thrilled that her list consists of several incredible romances. In her time at SMP, she has worked on books in a wide array of genres (including women’s/ book club fiction, historical fiction, thriller/ suspense, and romance) and with many amazing authors including Katherine Center and Kristin Hannah.
Christina is passionate about giving a voice to writers of underrepresented backgrounds. She is interested in adult and YA commercial fiction, women’s fiction, historical fiction, romance/rom-com, speculative fiction/ magical realism, and some non-fiction focused on pop culture and narrative stories that read like fiction. She is instantly hooked by character driven stories with layered protagonists; sparkling chemistry; complex relationships; morally gray areas; stories set in a rich culture or history; dynamic and atmospheric settings; and she has a soft spot for bittersweet endings.
She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in English and International Relations. Originally from the sunny border town of El Paso, she currently lives in Austin, Texas where she loves discovering new restaurants, watching reality TV, and spending time with her cat, Nova.
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About the Instructor
Christina Lopez
Christina Lopez is an associate editor at St. Martin’s Press, where she started as an intern in 2021. Her first love was romance novels (shoutout to Nicholas Sparks), and she is thrilled that her list consists of several incredible romances. In her time at SMP, she has worked on books in a wide array of genres (including women’s/ book club fiction, historical fiction, thriller/ suspense, and romance) and with many amazing authors including Katherine Center and Kristin Hannah.
Christina is passionate about giving a voice to writers of underrepresented backgrounds. She is interested in adult and YA commercial fiction, women’s fiction, historical fiction, romance/rom-com, speculative fiction/ magical realism, and some non-fiction focused on pop culture and narrative stories that read like fiction. She is instantly hooked by character driven stories with layered protagonists; sparkling chemistry; complex relationships; morally gray areas; stories set in a rich culture or history; dynamic and atmospheric settings; and she has a soft spot for bittersweet endings.
She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in English and International Relations. Originally from the sunny border town of El Paso, she currently lives in Austin, Texas where she loves discovering new restaurants, watching reality TV, and spending time with her cat, Nova.