Insights Into Book Publishing: A Literary Agentʼs Insider Tips for Writers
A seminar series at The Old American Can Factory, April 11-25, 2015

Do you want your book to be published? The first step is usually to find a literary agent. Gary Heidt from Signature Literary Agency is presenting a seminar series of lectures and Q&A’s to help the writer who would like to know more about how the book business really works and what concrete steps she or he could take toward getting published. This four-lecture seminar will consist of two lectures for all writers, one for writers of nonfiction (including memoir) and one for writers of fiction.

Saturday, April 11, 3 – 6pm

Publishing Today
The last decades have seen great changes in the publishing business. How has the landscape changed? Do you need an agent? What about self-publishing?

Saturday, April 18, 1 – 6pm

Writers are welcome to attend either or both of the April 18th lectures:

Nonfiction: How to Write a Book Proposal (1pm to 3:30pm)
You donʼt sell a nonfiction book, you sell a proposal for the book. Learning how to write a proposal teaches you everything you need to know about what publishers want.

Fiction: Query Writing for Novelists (4pm to 6pm)
If youʼve written a novel, how and to whom do you pitch it? If you havenʼt, the form of the query itself can teach you a lot of surprising things about things to consider before starting to write your masterpiece.

Saturday, April 25, 3 – 6pm

Book Contract Essentials
What you need to know for Traditional and E-Publishing.

Panel Discussion with the Publishers
Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Books) and Joshua Ellison (Restless Books) join Gary in a panel discussion, followed by a Q&A.

How to sign up

A subscription to the entire series (all four lectures) can be purchased for $175 before March 31, 2015, or for $225 thereafter. Sign up at http://signaturewriters.com/

Location: The Old American Can Factory, 232 Third Street (corner of Third Ave & Third St), Brooklyn, NY 11215.

Gary Heidt is a literary agent with Signature Literary Agency and has sold books to imprints at all the major publishers, including Random House, Simon and Schuster and HarperCollins. Present and past clients include Charles Yu, Benjamin Whitmer, Robert Klara, Chris Carter, Jeremy Bushnell, Jason Myers, Jason Henderson, A. S. King, Deji Olukotun, Arcana Comics and Platinum Comics. He is also a nationally published poet and essayist.