How to Write a Query Letter with Michael Larsen
Thursday, May 22 at 12 – 1pm PDT
A FREE Virtual Event
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Your query letter can be an essential step in writing your book and building your career. Your letter gives you the chance to distill your goals as a writer. One reason why now is the best time to be a writer is that you have more options for publishing your book than ever. Even if you self-publish, writing a query letter will enable you to plan your success.
In this Lunch N Learn, Mike Larsen will share how to convince agents and editors to see your work. Also included in this session is early access to “Setting Your Goals”–a 1250-word excerpt from Mike’s book in progress—Writing Success Guaranteed: 9 Superpowers for Making a Living and Changing the World. You and Mike will co-create this lunch with a fun, interactive discussion by volunteering to discuss your goals and how you will write about them in your letter.
Meet the Presenter:
Mike Larsen is an author coach who loves helping writers reach their goals by adding value to their readers’ lives. Mike and his late wife Elizabeth Pomada worked in publishing in New York before moving to San Francisco in 1970 and starting Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents in 1972. They were charter members of the Association of Authors Representatives, and sold hundreds of books to more than 100 publishers and imprints, before they stopped seeking new clients.
The agency’s bestsellers include A World Full of Strangers by Cynthia Freeman; The Complete Guide to Disco Dancing by Karen Lustgarten; and Get Anyone to Do Anything and Never Be Lied to Again by David Lieberman. After Cherie Carter-Scott appeared on Oprah, If Life is a Game, These Are the Rules shot to the top of the New York Times list. The book has sold 5 million copies and was published in more than forty countries. First published in 1980, Dan Millman’s Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives, an international bestseller, continues to sell.
Mike’s books include How to Write a Book Proposal, 5th Edition, by Jody Rein with Michael Larsen (previous editions by Mike sold more than 100,000 copies); How to Get a Literary Agent, now in its third edition; and Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100 Weapons for Selling Your Work, coauthored with Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman, and David Hancock, now in its second edition. Mike’s next book, Writing Success Guaranteed: 9 Superpowers for Making a Living and Changing the World, is in progress.
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