Karen's blog: The Manuscript Academy

Thursday, 8 May 2025

The Manuscript Academy

Here is the latest newsletter with details about agent events:

We hope you're enjoying flowers, sunshine, and better weather than NYC! (It's going to rain all week--but we're still in good spirits.)

We have so many new things coming this month!

But first, new agent meetings go live Thursday at 3pm ET for non-members. Meet with the agent or editor of your choice for a thoughtful, insightful, kind conversation about your writing--and what you can do to give your work its best possible chance.

We're also happy to welcome Jemiscoe Chambers-Black, agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and Ruqayyah Daud, editor at Hachette Book Group, to our faculty.

Our featured events this month:

Live Agent Feedback Panel + Interactive Networking with Agent Liv Ivanov, Creative Media Agency (tickets available starting Thursday!)
Who Edited It Best? Editing is subjective--watch our agents in an apples-to-apples comparison where we learn the WHY behind the edits--and vote for Who Edited It Best
Publishing Help Desk + Welcome Tour with Jessica Sinsheimer (Context Literary)
NEW: Interactive, SIMs-Like Meet-up With Mary, Minister of Writing Happiness (we promise it's easier than it sounds! Navigate with the arrows on your keyboard to meet new friends + critique partners in your genre)
And more!

Also, we have a brand new, members-only meeting type, Choose Your Own Agent Adventure. You can spend an hour on any combination of your query, synopsis, first pages, outline, plot, character, a specific scene--or just get your questions answered.

As always, all events are included with membership.

We're here if you need us!

All best,
Jessica & Julie

PS: Want early booking (meetings are ✨now live✨ for members!), all of the above events, 60+ hours of on-demand classes taught by agents, and new, talented friends in a thriving community for $49? Learn more here.

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