About Our Sponsors
Agent Query accepts sponsorship from companies and organizations who provide beneficial services to writers such as manuscript editing,
career consulting, networking opportunities, and writing classes, workshops, and conferences. If you would like more information about how to become an AQ sponsor, please click here.
Algonkian Novel Workshops
The goal of Algonkian is to provide writers of all genres with the craft
skills, connections, and market knowledge they need to effectively compete
in today's fiercely competitive literary market. We provide a series of reality
checks, both in terms of written exercises and interactive sessions with professional
editors and agents. We also require every writer in our shops develop a realistic
plan to get their novel or fiction manuscript published. For more information, see
our FAQ at http://www.algonkianconferences.com/faq.htm
BenBella Books
BenBella Books was founded in 2001 as an innovative, marketing-oriented book publisher. BenBella is open to all commercial non-fiction, but has a special emphasis on nutrition, health, science, self-help and popular culture. BenBella is best known for its cult bestseller The China Study (over 250,000 in print) and its innovative and bestselling Smart Pop pop culture series. BenBella has excellent distribution through one of the nation's leading distributors, Independent Publisher's Group (IPG) and is distributed in the U.K. by Turnaround. Foreign rights are handled by Susan Schulman Agency. BenBella is particularly strong at offering personalized relationships with authors that give them more input into the publishing process. Be sure to check out their Books We Like page for more information on how to submit.
The Editorial Department:
Now celebrating 26 years in the service of writers worldwide.
Founded by former William Morrow senior editor Renni Browne, our firm is
dedicated to helping writers of full-length fiction and nonfiction turn
promising manuscripts into salable properties. What sets us apart from others
is our high rate of success with first fiction, our policy against taking on work
that we feel shows little promise, and the assistance we offer our un-agented authors
in finding literary representation. We cannot guarantee writers publication as a result
of working with us, but we can dramatically improve their odds. Authors’ Services include:
manuscript evaluation & consultation, proofreading, copyediting, line editing, ghost writing
& collaboration, synopsis & book proposal preparation, writers’ workshops & seminars, a free
writers’ e-zine, and a fiction-writing e-course. Contact info:
The Editorial Department, www.editorialdepartment.com, admin@editorialdepartment.com
PH: (866) 360-6996
James River Writers Conference:
The James River Writers Conference will be held October 10-11, 2008 in Richmond, VA. It is an entertaining, educational and intimate two-day cross-genre event focused on the art and the business of writing. This year's conference features best-selling authors David Baldacci (Absolute Power), Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone Gap), Diane Mott Davidson (Goldy Culinary Mysteries), Kate Jacobs (Friday Night Knitting Club) as well as Emmy-nominated screenwriter Kirk Ellis (HBO's John Adams) and Pulitzer-winning poet Claudia Emerson. Also included are top magazine and book editors and NYC agents (one-on-one meetings are available). In addition to popular First Pages Critiques, sessions will address such topics as: What are publishers looking for? How do you write a query letter? How do you find your voice or find time to write? JRW prides itself on making its numerous presenters available to attendees beyond their keynotes and small panel discussions.
LiteratureChick.com
LiteratureChick.com is a site where books and authors are celebrities. It offers the best, most current reviews of newly released literary gems. Their Author Focus section provides in-depth coverage of the book's content as well as a one-on-one interview with the author.
And their Must Reads section encourages user participation by soliciting book recommendations and reviews from you--the reader.
TheNextBigWriter.com
TheNextBigWriter is a dynamic, supportive private community where writers post their novels, short stories, and poems to receive feedback from other writers and readers.
In addition, writers can share ideas and network with one another, start building a fan-base of readers, and receive recognition and rewards - including cash
prizes and publishing contracts. This all occurs within a validated password-protected (VPP) site, ensuring that the rights to each author's
work are fully preserved, and creating a comfortable, professional environment. Members on the site run the spectrum from beginners to published writers
and come from all parts of the world.
Disclaimer: Agent Query reserves the right to reject any requests for sponsorship for any reason at any time. Sponsorship approval and subsequent ads do not constitute an endorsement of any sort on the part of Agent Query LLC.
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