2/6/24
Today was the first CCNY creative writing club meeting of the year! (we still only meet once a month but that's ok!) It went great it was so great to see everyone again though Feli was only there on my phone, and Imran wasn't there at all though we got to hang out Afterwards in the libabry and catch up and might even be writing/directing a short film together now. But the club was great, It was awsome to see Chris, Corrine, Angela and I was presently surprised at how many new people joined, and actually participated, wanted to come back and suggested a prompt consitring most new people usually only come once and never again and barely participate or share their own stories when they do write. It was bittersweet though because we found out this is Corrnine and Angela's last year with the club so next year they will have to pass the torch to me, chris to run it, and imran and feli. I think chris would be a great president, and I a secretary or Feli but only the year can tell. Im excited for the future of the club. considering my Dispioinment at Second Drafters my own creative writing club I created last year and ran last year online with half the members quite successfully if short-lived that I had to announce wouldn't be becoming a school club this semester, the club going so well was just the bumb of success I needed with a rough, depression confusion filled first week of school! Especially with how well my writer's rock workshops have been going!
Even so, that's not even the best part of the day! Later that day after I hung out with Imran in the library, -after we both got pizza down the street/talked of making short films together down the line etc, I went back to school to meet back up with Chris, and Corrine, to attend a once in a Lifetime event that Corrine stressed was important not to miss. The president of PENQUIN RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING CAME TO SPEAK AT OUR SCHOOL!!!!
It was so AWSOME !
Here are some of the notes I took at his Speach about the inns and outs of the publisging industry and my plan for publishing lying flatt going forward
Brain Tart (random house publisher) lecture notes
good time to be a writer
Competition - reason to speed up ur process on ur book theirs demand
Lit agents 15% of ur advance
Editors IN PUBLISHING HOUSE spend a lot of time convincing lit agents to get the best books on the market
All agents will send ur book 📚 to many publishers all the big ones what they want is for several to choose ur book 📚 so an auction can happen
Can u guys predict a demographic based on the book/book topic to sell to
To find more community of writers /
go to more book fairs
Local Bookstores (find more bookstores, ask about events /say ur an upcoming author
Ways to find lit agents to email for LF
After writers rock - no longer try to hire a developmental editor - copy edit yourself or with ur mom
All publishers have in house editors.
(Will edit ur spelling /ur book alot and try to sell it to publishing houses )
OFFICAL METHOD OF FINDING A LIT AGEENT
Find out who represents books similar to lying flatt in the acknowledgments of books Similar to lying Flatt In genre /tone/subject matter
Send query Email to lit agents as many as you can
Not with sample of lying flatt (not at first ).
But just saying who u are asking if their interested in publishing u based on filling their market gap /what other things they have on the market.
Questions to ask
1; how to sell a trilogy ? Do u buy it all at once if the person has only written one or?
2. How does one get/find a good literary agent what are some good ways to represent you ?
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