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Manuscript Submission Blueprint
Unit 1: Getting Started
How to Use This Blueprint (5:11)
Step 2: Meet Mary Kole (3:21)
Step 3: The Most Important Thing (5:36)
Step 4: What a Literary Agent and Publisher Do (10:25)
Step 5: Are You REALLY Ready to Submit? (5:21)
Bonus Video: The Right Way to Establish Your Early Online Presence (5:53)
Unit 2: Understand Your Submission Options
Step 1: Overview of the Submission Process Timeline (13:25)
Step 2: Types of Submission: Agent (8:33)
Step 3: Types of Submission: Publishing House (6:52)
Unit 3: Develop a Submission Strategy
Step 1: Why You Need a Strategy (3:30)
Step 2: Understand the Different Types of Agents and Publishers (8:52)
Step 3A: Your Most Important Job – Research! Part 1 (6:05)
Step 3B: Research! Part 2 (3:44)
Bonus Video: Mary Demonstrates Online Research Techniques (23:16)
Bonus Video: One Research Tool Worth Paying For (4:10)
Step 4: Personalize and Rank Your Submission List (4:43)
Bonus Video: Why You Should Always Do Multiple Submissions (3:30)
Unit 4: Build Your Submission Package
Step 1: Overview of the Submission Package (11:17)
Step 2: Identify Your Sales Hook (10:31)
Step 3: The Big Show – The Query Letter (16:11)
Bonus Video: Listing Previous Writing Credits (7:47)
Bonus Packet: Annotated Sample Query Letters
Step 4: Create a Synopsis (Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction) (4:05)
Bonus Packet: Annotated Sample Synopses
Step 5: Build a Book Proposal (Informational Nonfiction) (5:01)
Bonus PDFs: Two Sample Nonfiction Proposals with Annotations
Step 6: Do a Final "Submission-Ready" Check (9:50)
Unit 5: Submitting Your Project
Step 1: Anchors Aweigh! (6:40)
Step 2: Follow-Up and Troubleshooting (9:37)
Unit 6: Other Opportunities to Pitch Your Project
Conferences (7:35)
Pitch Contests (5:34)
Unit 7: Post-Submission Strategies
Types of Rejection (9:26)
An Offer is Coming! (10:09)
What If an Editor Is Interested Before an Agent? (4:23)
Regrouping and Resubmitting (11:24)
Unit 8: If You Get Representation or a Deal
Step 1: What to Expect as an Agented Writer (9:13)
Step 2: Agents Aren't a Magic Bullet (4:41)
Unit 9: If You're Still on the Hunt
Independent Publishing (6:25)
Unit 10: Parting Thoughts
The Love of Writing (3:44)
Wrap-Up from Laura (2:00)
Discount Links to Other Writing Blueprints
Ask Me Anything Webinar with Mary Kole
Full Recording of the Ask Me Anything Webinar, September 2019 (87:14)
Step 5: Build a Book Proposal (Informational Nonfiction)
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