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Workshop: “No More Tears! Query Letter Writing" with Malaga Baldi, Independent Agent and owner of Baldi Agency

  • Sunday, December 02, 2018
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Riviera Resort, Palm Springs, 1600 N Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262, Royal Room 1. Park in Ballroom parking spaces for free parking.

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Sunday, December 2, 2018

Workshop:

No More Tears! Query Letter Writing

with
Malaga Baldi
Independent Agent & owner of Baldi Agency


Sunday, December 2, 2018

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Riviera Resort, Palm Springs
1600 N Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA 92262
Royal Room 1. Park in Ballroom parking spaces for free parking.
Directions
Ballroom Floor Plan

Schedule: Beginning at 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Lunch served at 11:30 a.m. Ample time for questions at end. Workshop over promptly at 3 p.m.

Workshop Description:
No More Tears! Query Letter Writing

Want to learn how a New York literary agent lets you in the door?

            How your manuscript gets read?

                        How the process from query letter to book-in-hand works?

Register here today for Malaga Baldi’s workshop: https://bit.ly/2OLiilP

HOW TO LAND A LITERARY AGENT

Who reads the query letter?
What goes into a query letter?
When do you write a query letter?
How do you write a query letter?
Why is it so important?

The workshop is a nuts & bolts informal and general discussion covering many publishing topics. Your query letter will be examined, critiqued, and professionalized. You’ll be ready to submit to agents after this workshop.

Move from “Print on Demand” to “Published and marketed by one of the Big Five or one of over 200 independent presses.”*  (John Kremer’s list of 101 Independent Presses and 101 Dependent Presses.)

·      A good query letter elicits a good agent.

·      A good agent gets a good publisher.

·      A good publisher gets attention in the marketplace.

·      Good marketing gets your book in stores and in readers hands.

So you see—it all starts right here.  Your great book has been written and edited. NOW--you write a great query letter and away you go.

Don’t miss this chance to see how far you can go with your manuscript. Sign up today and get a specified time to pitch your manuscript to Malaga Baldi, New York literary agent. Only people registered for the workshop can pitch at the Saturday general session.

After you register for the workshop, email jim@jimmisko.com and set up a specific five minute segment to pitch your project Saturday, December 1st, between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm.

About this workshop facilitator:
Malaga Baldi has worked as an independent literary agent since 1986. The Baldi Agency is an eclectic agency specializing in literary fiction, memoir and cultural history with over forty clients. She worked as a cashier at Gotham Book Mart, in the Ballantine Books Publicity Department, as an associate at Candida Donadio & Associates and the Elaine Markson Agency before going out on her own.  Baldi graduated from Hampshire College and lives in NYC with her spouse, daughter and aged black standard poodle.

Baldi works with large and small houses alike -- from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Knopf, Harper Collins, Simon Schuster to Skyhorse, Cleis Press, Bellevue Literary Books and the University of Wisconsin Press.  Award Winning William J. Mann's biography of Marlon Brando, THE CONTENDER is due out in 2019 from Harper Collins.  Mann's WISECRACKER, KATE are currently in development for the screen. Mann's TINSELTOWN received an Edgar Best Fact Crime Award and is optioned for television.  Kia Corthron's THE CASTLE CROSS THE MAGNET CARTER won the Center for Fiction First Novel Award, Blanche Boyd's TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN was selected as an Amazon best May 2018 novel and Baldi received the Publishing Triangle Leadership Award earlier this spring.

Click here to register for this workshop

Registration Details:

  • PSWG Members: $85.00
  • Non-Members: $100.00
  • Payment in Full is confirmation of seating.
  • Online payment via PayPal or credit card only.
  • Lunch included.
  • Workshop attendees cancelling their attendance and wishing a refund will be handled on a case by case basis by the PSWG Board.
  • Day of workshop sales available ONLY if workshop is not full. Bring check. Workshop events are limited to 40 participants.
  • Park in Ballroom parking spaces for free parking.
  • Click here to register for this workshop

Event Contact: Jim Misko: jim@jimmisko.com
or Judith Magee: judith783@gmail.com