Manuscript Submission Blueprint
Your Instructor
Mary Kole has served as literary agent for Andrea Brown Literary Agency and as senior literary manager for Movable Type in New York. She is now a full-time book editor.
She is the creator of Kidlit.com and author of Writing Irresistible Kidlit from Writer’s Digest Books. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco and is the Instructor for Manuscript Submission Blueprint.
Here's What's Included:
Unit 1: Getting Started
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StartHow to Use This Blueprint (5:11)
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StartStep 2: Meet Mary Kole (3:21)
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StartStep 3: The Most Important Thing (5:36)
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StartStep 4: What a Literary Agent and Publisher Do (10:25)
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StartStep 5: Are You REALLY Ready to Submit? (5:21)
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StartBonus Video: The Right Way to Establish Your Early Online Presence (5:53)
Unit 2: Understand Your Submission Options
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Unit 3: Develop a Submission Strategy
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StartStep 1: Why You Need a Strategy (3:30)
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StartStep 2: Understand the Different Types of Agents and Publishers (8:52)
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StartStep 3A: Your Most Important Job – Research! Part 1 (6:05)
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StartStep 3B: Research! Part 2 (3:44)
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StartBonus Video: Mary Demonstrates Online Research Techniques (23:16)
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StartBonus Video: One Research Tool Worth Paying For (4:10)
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StartStep 4: Personalize and Rank Your Submission List (4:43)
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StartBonus Video: Why You Should Always Do Multiple Submissions (3:30)
Unit 4: Build Your Submission Package
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StartStep 1: Overview of the Submission Package (11:17)
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StartStep 2: Identify Your Sales Hook (10:31)
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StartStep 3: The Big Show – The Query Letter (16:11)
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StartBonus Video: Listing Previous Writing Credits (7:47)
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StartBonus Packet: Annotated Sample Query Letters
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StartStep 4: Create a Synopsis (Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction) (4:05)
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StartBonus Packet: Annotated Sample Synopses
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StartStep 5: Build a Book Proposal (Informational Nonfiction) (5:01)
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StartBonus PDFs: Two Sample Nonfiction Proposals with Annotations
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StartStep 6: Do a Final "Submission-Ready" Check (9:50)
Unit 5: Submitting Your Project
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Unit 6: Other Opportunities to Pitch Your Project
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Unit 7: Post-Submission Strategies
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Unit 8: If You Get Representation or a Deal
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Frequently Asked Questions
When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
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