Thursday, July 27, 12 P.M. PDT- A FREE Virtual Event
Writing Success Guaranteed: How to Use Your Superpowers to Build a Career Doing What You Love
A Lunch and Learn with Author Coach Michael Larsen on Zoom
Unable to attend? No worries. Register anyway and receive the replay!
Bestselling romance author and BookTok superstar, Colleen Hoover, uses her two most irresistible superpowers to guarantee her success: She writes books her readers love, and she is as devoted to her readers as she is to her writing.
Now is the best time ever to be a writer. One reason is that you have 14 superpowers that will guarantee your success.
Mike will tell you about how these superpowers can help you transform your writing, your career, and your life. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the topics he’ll be discussing:
- Goals: Create Literary, Publishing, & Personal Goals & Plans to Achieve Them
- Writing: Develop Your Craft: Read, Write, and Share
- Sell Your Book Before You Write It: Writing a Proposal That Excites Agents and Editors
- The Hooks, The Book & The Cook: The 3 Parts of an Irresistible Query Letter
Mike looks forward to answering your questions about your idea, proposal, platform, promotion plan, query letter, publishing options, goals, and your plans to achieve them.
You are welcome to write him with questions after the event. If you want feedback on your work, you may email your query letter, your phone number, and the first page of your proposal or manuscript to larsenpoma-at-aol.com.
Mike hopes that this event leads to starting a writing-for-change critique group, online or off. Please email him if you’re interested.
We hope to see you there!
Mike Larsen loves helping adult fiction and nonfiction writers achieve their goals by adding value to their readers’ lives. Mike brings half a century of writing, agenting, and publishing experience to the challenge. He and his wife, Elizabeth Pomada, worked in publishing in New York before moving to San Francisco and starting Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents in 1972. The agency sold books to more than 100 publishers and imprints.
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 sold 4 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.
Elizabeth and Mike joined the San Francisco chapter of the WNBA in the early 70s. Elizabeth served two terms as president; Mike as program director. In 2003, they cofounded the San Francisco Writers Conference and later, the San Francisco Writing for Change Conference.
They coauthored the six books in the Painted Ladies series about Victorian houses, which sparked a national movement and sold more than 400,000 copies. Publishers Weekly chose the second book in the series, Daughters of Painted Ladies: America’s Resplendent Victorians, as one of the best books of 1987.
Mike’s books include:
- How to Write a Book Proposal, 5th Edition, a collaboration with Jody Rein (previous editions by Mike sold more than 100,000 copies)
- How to Get a Literary Agent
- Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100 Weapons for Selling Your Work, with Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman, and David Hancock.
- Writing Success Guaranteed: How to Use Your Superpowers to Build a Career Doing What You Love, in progress.
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