From Finished to Published: Preparing, Pitching, and Selling Your Manuscript

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ready to start marketing your novel?

WAUKESHA – So you’ve labored over every word. You’ve thought about your
characters and your story during most waking moments, and even some when you
weren’t awake. You have completed something many people only dream or talk
about: a book-length manuscript.  So now what?

On June 2nd,
writer Erin Celello comes to AllWriters’ to help budding book-writers figure
out if their manuscripts are ready to send out. 
She’ll teach how to find the right agent, pointing out some easy ways to
boost the odds of your manuscript being read.  What makes a good query, and are there better
times of year than others to submit your work to agents and editors? What can
you expect from the publishing process and what is your role as an author? This
session will cover these, and any additional, questions attendees might have about
how to take a manuscript from finished to published. It will concentrate
primarily on fiction manuscripts, but will include discussions on how to
prepare and pitch nonfiction as well. In addition, students will leave with a
go-to packet of resources to guide them through the publishing process.

To register for
this class, call 262-446-0284 or go to www.allwriters.org
and click on Celebrity Saturdays.

ERIN CELELLO is
the author of two novels from Penguin/NAL: Miracle Beach (2011) and Learning to
Stay (winter 2012). She was born and raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
where she earned an MFA in fiction from Northern Michigan University. She now
lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, newborn son, and two unruly
Vizslas. An avid triathlete and marathoner, Erin also enjoys competing with her
American Quarter Horse, Gino. To keep the lights on, Erin has worked at a
trucking company, in lingerie sales, and as a political speechwriter, and today
is a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop
offers on-site and online writing courses in all genres and abilities of
creative writing, as well as coaching, editing, and marketing services.  A
schedule of classes and registration is available online at http://www.allwriters.org or you can call
262-446-0284.