Beat The Stay-At-Home Blues Webinar
Ask us any question about publishing in this free one-hour workshop. Make the most of your time at home and get your work ready to get out into the world!
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Beat The Stay-At-Home Blues Webinar
March 19, 2020
8PM EDT / 5PM PDT
Webinar: Why Do Books Get Rejected?
Since the first writer wrote the first story by chiseling it into a large rock, then had her creation rudely rejected by the first publisher down in some dark, cold cave, writers have been asking the question: Why? Why didn’t I get a six-figure book deal? Why did the agent who loved my query then proceed to ghost me? Why did all those editors turn down my book, which almost certainly would be the greatest book in the history of books, if only they bothered to publish it?
The Book Doctors will answer these question, and so many more, in their upcoming webinar. From the nuts and bolts of having a great pitch, a totally awesome first sentence, a mind-boggling first page, a righteously compelling platform, and dealing with the eccentricities of a cruel God in an uncaring universe, The Book Doctors will break it down as only they can.
Figuring out how to not only deal with rejection, but actually to learn from it, and move forward with intelligent (as opposed to stupid) persistence is often the difference between succeeding in publishing, and ending up heavily medicated. We don’t want you heavily medicated. Come to our webinar instead. You can do it in your pajamas with bad hair!
8:00PM EST
Query Letter Webinar & Critique
This Query Letter Webinar was held on December 1, 2016
The query letter is an author’s first arrow in their assault on the castle surrounding the Kingdom of Bestsellers. The Book Doctors are constantly shocked by how many great writers write terrible query letters. Agents and publishers are overwhelmed and inundated; if they don’t fall in love with your query letter, you’re going to get one of those horrible generic responses which, no matter how much sugar they put on it, basically tells the author to drop dead.
This webinar will break down everything you need to know about the query letter, and we will deconstruct and critique (in our kind and gentle way) participants’ randomly selected query letters.
This webinar is FREE to view. To submit your query letter for possible critique, please send it to david@thebookdoctors.com. Include “query webinar submission” in the subject line.
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The Art of the Book Pitch
What’s the key to unlocking publishing doors? A great pitch! Earlier this year, we taught a live webinar on how to craft a pitch that’ll grab the attention of agents, publishers, booksellers, and readers. The recording is now available for everyone to view.
The Art of the Book Pitch
Learn the art and science of the seemingly impossible task of boiling your book down into 250 words or less.
- What is a pitch?
- Why is a pitch important?
- How do authors use pitches?
- Is a plot-heavy pitch good or bad?
- What is an elevator pitch?
- How is a pitch like a poem?
- How do authors use the pitch as a sales tool?
- And more!
During the webinar, we shared May K. Cobb’s winning pitch from the 2016 NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza. You can read May’s pitch here, along with all the other entries, and see our feedback.
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NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza 2016 Winners!
Nano Nation: You are all WINNERS! We had such a blast with this year’s National Novel Writing Month Pitchapalooza. So many AWESOME pitches, so much AMAZING imagination, such an ASTOUNDING display of dizzying talent. Thanks so much to all the writers who participated in this year’s NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza! As always, we got so many fabulous pitches it was stupidly hard to choose a winner. But choose we did. And the winner is …
MAY K. COBB is the winner for her book Big Woods. She wrote a glorious pitch with a vivid voice, scintillating story, gripping characters, and luscious location. Amazing job, May! She will receive an introduction to an agent or publisher appropriate for her manuscript.
The Fan Favorite this year is KELLY BRAKENHOFF for her book Death by Dissertation! She gets a free one-hour consultation with us (worth $250). Congratulations!
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We’re hosting a free webinar on Thursday, April 7th at 8PM EDT. During the webinar, we’ll be teaching the art of the pitch. A great pitch can open so many doors for you. A terrible pitch pretty much assures that those doors will remain closed. We will also answer any questions about pitching, publishing, writing, books, or the nature of the universe. We hope to see you on April 7th.