IN PERSON Polish That Query
micro-workshop | Thursday, July 6, 2023 | 10-1pm
Instructor: Naomi Davis
MEMBER PRICE: $60.00 (with member coupon AWCSM25)
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $80.00
Bring your query letter draft and work through it with literary agent Naomi Davis of BookEnds! Naomi will help you be sure your hook is clear, your query contains all relevant information, and your query strategy is solid in this roundtable-style workshop. Listening to other writers perfect their queries will sharpen your skills for writing about your own work in a concise, saleable way.
This workshop takes place in person at the Alexandra Writers Centre Society in Calgary.
Authors have always been Naomi Davis's superheroes. Growing up in Minnesota, they spent their elementary years pretending they were every character in every book they read. A life-long writer and author-fanatic, they have a mild to moderate obsession with slippers, and sing in two philharmonic choirs.
Naomi has a passion for helping authors develop stakes, voice immersion, and tension to a story's highest possible potential, and often tweets about strategies for accomplishing those goals on their Twitter.
They seek dynamic, character-driven adult and young adult titles in fantasy, sci-fi, and romance, and represent select middle grade and picture book authors. Naomi also has an interest in stories that blend the fantastic with the realistic, and is eager for books that cross between women's fiction and fantasy, or contemporary fiction and sci fi or fantasy.
Naomi is particularly passionate about finding new fantasy and sci-fi settings with unique magical structures that surprise the reader and change the rules readers associate with those worlds. They write powerful, intricate characters in explosive SFF settings.
Naomi is nonbinary and happy with either pronoun, she/her or they/them.