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AGENT SESSION - Pitch Your Books With the Right Comparables
AGENT SESSION WITH SAM HIYATE
Thursday, August 15, 2024 | 7PM-8:30PM
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You’ve heard the term comp titles but don’t really understand what that means. Why would you compare your work to already published work when you want your work to be unique and stand out? The goal of a great pitch is to make your work memorable and compelling. And the easiest way to do this is to use the insider language of editors and agents and use comparables to position your work in the market. Once we know where your book fits among existing works, it’s easier to see it published, and to succeed. Come with examples you might compare your work to, so we can finesse a pitch that will elevate your work and get editors and agents fighting over you.
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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