How to Follow Up with a Literary Agent

Thursday, June 29, 12 P.M. PDT- A FREE Virtual Event

A Lunch and Learn with Peter Rubie on Zoom 

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How to Follow Up with a Literary Agent

Are you looking for a literary agent? Have you sent out your query only to receive a polite rejection letter wishing you well on your publishing journey?

Here’s the reason: Literary agents are overwhelmed. Some receive 1500+ queries a month. But there’s an even bigger reason as to why you are not getting the traction you want.

Join literary agent, Peter Rubie, for a Lunch and Learn for the Women’s National Book Association – San Francisco Chapter, on Thursday, June 29th, at 12 p.m. PDT. 

Peter will share his expertise and explain the secrets behind his decade-long successes in championing the work of his clients. He will demystify the reality behind the art of obtaining a literary agent in our current publishing landscape.

If achieving literary representation for your manuscript is your goal, let Peter guide you with his insights and advice to receive a “yes” from the agent of your dreams! Peter will share what agents respond to positively, what topics are currently popular in the market, the quickest way to get agents to stop in their tracks, the one thing to absolutely not do if you are serious about getting a literary agent and much more. 

We hope to see you there! 

Peter Rubie has been in New York publishing as an agent, editor, and published writer for nearly forty years. He is the CEO of FinePrint Literary Management, an NYC-based literary agency with 5 active agents, and began in publishing working as a freelance reader and freelance editor for major “Big Six” publishers (as they were then) before becoming the adult fiction editor at Walker & Co. from 1985 to 1991. He became an agent in 1992 and formed his own agency in 1998.

Besides working in publishing as an agent and editor, he was also an adjunct professor in the New York University publishing faculty for 10 years, where he taught the only university-level course in the country on how to become a literary agent. He is known for working closely, editorially, with his clients to bring projects to their fullest potential before submitting them. Over the years, several of his authors have become NY Times bestsellers and award-winning writers.

Peter represents a broad range of high-quality fiction and non-fiction. He specializes in children’s books, particularly middle grade, and some picture books. For adult books, he specializes in narrative non-fiction such as memoirs; biographies; history and current affairs; books on business; popular science and technology; parenting; music; food; and in adult fiction, crime novels; thrillers; commercial woman’s fiction; fantasy; science fiction; and some literary fiction.

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