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AGENT SESSION - Query to Sell
AGENT SESSION WITH SAM HIYATE
Monday, August 12, 2024 | 6PM-9PM
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AWCS Members & When Words Collide Attendees: $20
Non-Members: $40
Sending a query letter is like applying for a job. You have to sell your book enough in one short, perfect letter, that an agent or publisher wants to read it. It’s harder than you might think. Bring your query letter draft for critique to this workshop and Sam will help ensure your hook is clear, your query contains all relevant information, and your query strategy is solid. Come prepared to learn how to write concise query letters that will leave publishers and agents wanting more.
THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE AT THE ALEXANDRA WRITERS CENTRE SOCIETY.
Sam Hiyate is keen to discover new voices and help writers prepare their works for market, and to help them build lasting careers. In the past two decades with THE RIGHTS FACTORY his hundreds of book deals have resulted in several bestsellers such as MORE, the memoir by Molly Roden Winter, THIS ONE SUMMER, the graphic novel by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, non-fiction such as HEALTHY AF (DITCH THE DIET) by Oonagh Duncan and THE MYTH of CAPITALISM by Jonathan Tepper and Denise Hearn, and fiction such as GIRLS IN WHITE DRESSES by Jennifer Close and THE ADULT by Bronwyn Fischer.
The Host of the podcast Agent Provocateur, Sam regularly appears at writers conferences and also teaches publishing (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Creative Writing (University of Toronto). Before The Rights Factory, Sam ran the literary division of The Lavin Agency in 2003, building a client list and completing his first deals. Sam also worked as editor and publisher for the small press, Gutter Press, from 1993 to 2002, and worked at the literary magazines Blood & Aphorisms and The Quarterly in the 90s.
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