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University Connected Learning
Description
Wondering whether it's time to find an agent for your book or just ready to learn more about how the publishing industry works and what steps you'll eventually need to take to get your manuscript into print? This compact, fast-paced seminar will provide essential information concerning the role of literary agents in the business of publishing. We'll discuss query letters, synopses, prospectuses, and book proposals, as well as what purposes they serve, how they are structured, and when they might be effective and appropriate for presenting your project. The informative articles and resource listings provided will help you begin to think like a writing professional. Dawn is president of Dawn Marano & Associates, a literary consulting and developmental editing firm. Previously she served as an editor at the University of Utah Press, where she published many nationally recognized authors, including Mark Spragg, Chris Chester and Catherine Manseu Mayo. She is a co-author of When We Say We're Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory, a work of literary nonfiction, and of a recently completed memoir, Trusting the Edge, which won first place in the nonfiction book category of the 2005 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition. Her work has been cited among Notable Essays in The Best American Essays.