Three-Day Workshop: InCOMParable: Controlling The Conversation Around Your Book

Original price was: $49.00.Current price is: $39.00.

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Live Class with agent Jessica Sinsheimer, Context Literary | Tuesday, October 21, 8:30pm ET / 5:30 pm PT. 

Live Comp Feedback Panel with agent John Cusick, Folio Literary |  Thursday, October 23, at 2pm ET / 11am PT.

Recordings and interactive workshop forum available for 30 days. 

Sometimes “it’s X meets Y” is the hardest equation to solve.

How do you make sure your comps are recognizable–but not “My book is the next Hunger Games” big?

How do you avoid embarrassing yourself, or making it look like you’re an amateur?

How do you find enough works that fit your book? How do you know they’re evoking an image?

When can you break the rules–and if you’re going to, how can you be sure your comps work?

And–perhaps most controversial–should you even use comps at all? 

With interactive a live class, interactive workshopping, and a comps feedback panel, you’ll leave feeling confident, creative, and maybe even excited about your comp titles. 

Jessica Sinsheimer has been reading and campaigning for her favorite queries since 2004. Now an agent at the Context Literary Agency, co-founder of #MSWL, ManuscriptWishlist.com, and ManuscriptAcademy.com, she is always on the lookout for new writers, and–whatever the age group–she tends to love contrast: highbrow sentences and lowbrow content, beautiful settings and ugly motives–the books that are beautiful and scary, heartbreaking and hilarious. She loves secrets, scheming, revenge, plotting–and stories that have to be written forward and backward to make sense (SHE LOVES discovering a very cleverly planted clue that makes sense in retrospect). She’d love more of what she thinks of as “Rom Com 2.0” works–powerful, nerdy women with humor and heart. More underrepresented characters, please–especially those with power, agency, and happy endings.

John M. Cusick is a Senior Vice President and literary agent with Folio Jr. / Folio Literary Management, representing a diverse list of New York Times bestsellers and award winners including Julie Murphy, Joan He, Laura Sebastian, Christian McKay Heidicker, and Abdi Nazemian. He represents fiction for kids, teens, and adults, and is also the author of the YA novels GIRL PARTS and CHERRY MONEY BABY (Candlewick Press), as well as the middle-grade duology DIMENSION WHY: How to Save the Universe Without Really Trying (HarperCollins). You can find him online at https://www.foliojr.com/john-cusick.

Send the books kids will sneak/steal/borrow in secret. Those personal, dangerous, life-saving stories. Genres: Children’s, Middle Grade, Picture Books, YA, author-illustrators. No adult works.

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