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SUMMARY:The Writers Bridge | Your Ideal Readers with Jessica Berg
DESCRIPTION:“Everyone will love this book” is not a marketing plan.\n\n\n\nAgents ask who your book is for. So do editors\, publicists and the algorithms behind every online bookstore. “Readers who love great stories” isn’t enough. \n\n\n\nYour ideal reader isn’t a guess or a demographic box you tick on a form. It’s a specific person with a specific inner life: what they worry about\, what they wish someone would say out loud\, which books are already on their nightstand\, and where they spend their time online. Once you know that person\, it gets easier to write your query letter\, pick your comp titles\, decide which platform to show up on first and choose your book’s keywords. \n\n\n\nIn this special work-along session\, we talk with literary agent Jessica Berg about how professionals actually do reader research and the resources you need. \n\n\n\n\nRead comp-title reviews like data\, finding what reviewers reveal about themselves\, not just about the book\n\n\n\nListen in where your readers gather\, on Reddit\, in Facebook groups and on Goodreads shelves\, and turn their language into your pitch\n\n\n\nTell “also shelved with” from true query comps\, and why you need both\n\n\n\nFind the gap in your category that your book fills\, stated in a sentence an agent will believe\n\n\n\nTurn reader research into a primary benefit\, an emotional promise and purchase triggers you can use in your query\, jacket copy and marketing\n\n\n\n\nEveryone who registers gets our free DIY Ideal Reader Research Guide\, a section-by-section walkthrough of the same research\, with the tools and sources for each step. Fair warning: done thoroughly by hand\, it’s a 44–70 hour project. But we’ll also show you how our Ideal Reader Analyzer can build the same persona\, comp list and marketing roadmap in about two minutes\, for writers who’d rather spend those hours writing–and give you a huge discount to try it out. \n\n\n\nJoin us TUESDAY October 27 at 1PM EASTERN / 10AM PACIFIC – live and FREE on Zoom\, all welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur special guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Berg is a literary agent\, author\, and the founder of Rosecliff Literary. She loves stories that explore grief\, longing\, ambition\, and survival and the complicated ways they intersect. \n\n\n\nShe earned her MFA from Spalding University and contributes regularly to Writer’s Digest. Jessica serves on the boards of the Women’s National Book Association and the Historical Novel Society\, and teaches nationally on querying\, comp titles\, and the business of authorship\, with a focus on building sustainable\, long-term writing careers. Her client list includes Vincent Zandri\, Lisa Roe\, Arizona Bell\, and others.. \n\n\n\nJoin your hosts Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS)\, Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and our special guest for a head start on your proposal\, your launch and your marketing plans. \n\n\n\nFREE\, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnjoy past recorded sessions here\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House\, Knopf\, Mantle\, St. Martin’s Press\, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building\, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers)\, Instagram (10k+)\, a mailing list (12k+)\, and Facebook (5k+)\, with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her bestselling writing craft book is Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight\, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series\, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing\, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay\, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Write Beyond Yourself: Research\, Reporting\, and the Art of Narrative Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Some stories demand more than what we already know: interviews\, research\, quotations\, and reportage. Learn the skill of turning facts into scenes with inspiration and truth.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Narrative Nonfiction\, and MemoirIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWe are often told to ‘write what we know.’ But what if the story we’re telling\, whatever our own role in it\, requires us to seek out information\, perspectives\, and knowledge beyond our own experience? Even as we write beyond ourselves\, the question at the heart of the book or essay must drive our inquiry. Why we are telling this story in turn dictates how that story unfolds and is structured and told. \n\n\n\nLearn narrative nonfiction writer Michael Copperman’s best techniques for conducting and writing interviews\, researching\, exploring archives and analyzing keepsakes\, quoting from other first sources\, and reportage. Through examples of transforming source material into recreated and imagined scenes and text\, you’ll discover the combination of skill\, patience\, and inspiration that powers successful narrative nonfiction. \n\n\n\nProceeds for this course support Short Reads\, the free\, flash-nonfiction literary magazine\, and the writers they publish. Find out more and subscribe to Short Reads here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE different kinds of research\, reportage\, investigation\, and interviews\n\n\n\nINTERROGATE the ethics of transforming anecdotes\, facts\, and data into narrative\n\n\n\nCONSIDER models of transforming research into a story\n\n\n\nLEARN how to begin doing this work for your own writing\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for beginning and intermediate writers who…\n\n\n\n\nwant to include archival materials and research and/or conduct interviews to enrich their own work\n\n\n\nwish to consider or include knowledge and perspectives beyond their own immediate experience\n\n\n\nwant to write compelling\, enlightening narrative nonfiction that appeals to audiences\, agents\, editors\, and readers\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMICHAEL COPPERMAN’s memoir TEACHER: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi 2017)\, about the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta\, was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award in CNF. A funny\, generous and thoughtful teacher\, he blends specific information with the inspiration to use it\, right away. \n\n\n\nMichael’s prose has appeared in The Oxford-American\, Guernica\, The Sun\, Creative Nonfiction\, Boston Review\, Salon\, Gulf Coast\, Triquarterly\, Kenyon Review and Copper Nickel\, among many others\, and has won awards and garnered fellowships from the Munster Literature Center\, Breadloaf Writers Conference\, Oregon Literary Arts\, and the Oregon Arts Commission. His work is represented by David Dunton of Harvey Klinger. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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