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BLACK AUTHORS FESTIVAL PRESENTS - THE PUBLISHING MASTERCLASS - $295.00
THE PUBLISHING MASTERCLASS - From Manuscript to Market
Featuring New York’s Top EVP & Literary Agent
About the Masterclass
1. The Publishing Industry From the Inside
How the contemporary publishing ecosystem actually works, including the roles of agents, editors, publishers, rights departments, and other industry players.
2. What Makes a Manuscript Marketable
What agents and publishers look for beyond good writing: concept, positioning, audience, category, commercial viability, and differentiation.
3. From Manuscript to Literary Representation
How authors move from completed manuscript to querying, representation, submission, acquisition, and ultimately publication. The current submission process.
4. Building the Author as Intellectual Property
How an author can think beyond a single book and develop a sustainable body of work, platform, brand, and intellectual property.
5. The Business of the Book
Publishing economics, advances, royalties, rights, contracts, subsidiary rights, and the commercial considerations authors should understand before entering the marketplace.
6. Beyond the Book
How books can create opportunities in audiobook, translation, film, television, and other rights markets.
7. The Author's Long-Term Career
Moving from “I have a book” to developing a sustainable literary career, including audience development, future projects, positioning, and strategic decision-making.
8. Publishing Reality Check: Live Q&A
An unfiltered audience conversation where authors can ask questions about the realities of today's publishing industry.
The Masterclass - 10:00am - 12:30pm
Note: Bring your manuscripts, as one attendee will be randomly selected to submit their manuscript for review. Submission and attendance does NOT constitute literary representation, a publishing offer, or guarantee of consideration.
Our Masterclass Facilitator is an Executive Vice President and a leading literary agent at one of New York's prominent literary agencies. He represents emerging and established authors and has negotiated hundreds of publishing, translation, audiobook, film, television, and other subsidiary-rights agreements. His work focuses on helping authors build sustainable careers, expand their brands, and maximize the value of their intellectual property.
Before becoming a literary agent, he worked at another major publishing house and held positions within his current agency’s foreign-rights and audiobook divisions, giving him experience across multiple areas of the publishing ecosystem.
The Black Authors Festival reserves the unrestricted right, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to modify, revise, suspend, replace, or cancel any Festival rules, regulations, terms, conditions, fees, requirements, honorees, speakers, presenters, sponsors, partners, venues, dates, times, schedules, programming, activities, benefits, lineups, or other Festival related information or arrangements at any time, with or without prior notice. Such changes may be made at the Festival's sole discretion and for any reason deemed necessary or appropriate. The Festival shall not be responsible for maintaining any previously announced Festival component where circumstances require or warrant a change.
RESERVATION OF RIGHTS - FESTIVAL MODIFICATIONS
The Black Authors Festival reserves the unrestricted right, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to modify, revise, suspend, replace, or cancel any Festival rules, regulations, terms, conditions, fees, requirements, honorees, speakers, presenters, sponsors, partners, venues, dates, times, schedules, programming, activities, benefits, lineups, or other Festival related information or arrangements at any time, with or without prior notice. Such changes may be made at the Festival's sole discretion and for any reason deemed necessary or appropriate. The Festival shall not be responsible for maintaining any previously announced Festival component where circumstances require or warrant a change.
Seating is Limited. Only 25 seats remaining!
$295.00 Application Fee is Non-Refundable & Non-Transferable
THE PUBLISHING MASTERCLASS - From Manuscript to Market
Featuring New York’s Top EVP & Literary Agent
About the Masterclass
1. The Publishing Industry From the Inside
How the contemporary publishing ecosystem actually works, including the roles of agents, editors, publishers, rights departments, and other industry players.
2. What Makes a Manuscript Marketable
What agents and publishers look for beyond good writing: concept, positioning, audience, category, commercial viability, and differentiation.
3. From Manuscript to Literary Representation
How authors move from completed manuscript to querying, representation, submission, acquisition, and ultimately publication. The current submission process.
4. Building the Author as Intellectual Property
How an author can think beyond a single book and develop a sustainable body of work, platform, brand, and intellectual property.
5. The Business of the Book
Publishing economics, advances, royalties, rights, contracts, subsidiary rights, and the commercial considerations authors should understand before entering the marketplace.
6. Beyond the Book
How books can create opportunities in audiobook, translation, film, television, and other rights markets.
7. The Author's Long-Term Career
Moving from “I have a book” to developing a sustainable literary career, including audience development, future projects, positioning, and strategic decision-making.
8. Publishing Reality Check: Live Q&A
An unfiltered audience conversation where authors can ask questions about the realities of today's publishing industry.
The Masterclass - 10:00am - 12:30pm
Note: Bring your manuscripts, as one attendee will be randomly selected to submit their manuscript for review. Submission and attendance does NOT constitute literary representation, a publishing offer, or guarantee of consideration.
Our Masterclass Facilitator is an Executive Vice President and a leading literary agent at one of New York's prominent literary agencies. He represents emerging and established authors and has negotiated hundreds of publishing, translation, audiobook, film, television, and other subsidiary-rights agreements. His work focuses on helping authors build sustainable careers, expand their brands, and maximize the value of their intellectual property.
Before becoming a literary agent, he worked at another major publishing house and held positions within his current agency’s foreign-rights and audiobook divisions, giving him experience across multiple areas of the publishing ecosystem.
The Black Authors Festival reserves the unrestricted right, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to modify, revise, suspend, replace, or cancel any Festival rules, regulations, terms, conditions, fees, requirements, honorees, speakers, presenters, sponsors, partners, venues, dates, times, schedules, programming, activities, benefits, lineups, or other Festival related information or arrangements at any time, with or without prior notice. Such changes may be made at the Festival's sole discretion and for any reason deemed necessary or appropriate. The Festival shall not be responsible for maintaining any previously announced Festival component where circumstances require or warrant a change.
RESERVATION OF RIGHTS - FESTIVAL MODIFICATIONS
The Black Authors Festival reserves the unrestricted right, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to modify, revise, suspend, replace, or cancel any Festival rules, regulations, terms, conditions, fees, requirements, honorees, speakers, presenters, sponsors, partners, venues, dates, times, schedules, programming, activities, benefits, lineups, or other Festival related information or arrangements at any time, with or without prior notice. Such changes may be made at the Festival's sole discretion and for any reason deemed necessary or appropriate. The Festival shall not be responsible for maintaining any previously announced Festival component where circumstances require or warrant a change.
Seating is Limited. Only 25 seats remaining!
$295.00 Application Fee is Non-Refundable & Non-Transferable