Sunday, November 10th, 2024

Live Seminar via Zoom from 2:00PM - 5:00PM Central 

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Instructor Cameron Dezen Hammon is the author of This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession (Lookout Books, 2019) winner of the Nonfiction Discovery Prize from The Writers’ League of Texas, the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publisher Books Awards for Creative Nonfiction, and a finalist for the Foreword INDIE Book of the Year in Memoir and Autobiography. She has written for Vogue, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, Ecotone, NYLON, the Houston Chronicle, and elsewhere. She is at work on her second book, a reported memoir about post-divorce sexual and spiritual liberation, the first chapter of which was recently published in The Sun. Cameron teaches creative writing and literature at Rice University in Houston, TX.

Do you have a book in you? In this class, participants will learn valuable insight into the traditional publishing world and how to best position and sell their own books.

Students will learn how to choose and query agents, how to refine their elevator pitch, and how to identify potential editors at publishing houses.

We will discuss the different process for fiction and nonfiction books as well as how to build a writing portfolio that gets noticed.  

We'll also read excerpts from Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum.

COURSE OUTLINE:

In this one day class (three hours), we will focus on getting our books (or books in progress) ready to be sold to a publisher. Through writing prompts, real time feedback from the instructor and other attendees, and craft talks and discussion, students will make real progress on assembling the pieces needed to seal the deal with an agent and/ or publisher. 

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