Starts tonight 8.30pm ET:
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This is it–tonight at 8:30pm ET, our first event goes live for our comp titles workshop with agents John Cusick and Jessica Sinsheimer.
If comp titles have been feeling like misery meets "why do I even have to do this?!"—you're not alone. It's uncomfortable. It feels reductive. But here's the thing: it can also be powerful.
Over three days, we're going to teach you how to:
- Show agents your vision in just seconds
- Give them clarity, confidence and nuance
- Create delicious tension between ideas
- Honor your work while giving it its best possible chance
Can't make it live? Send your work for feedback and catch the replays.
Your book—with all its layers, all those years of thinking and living and creating—deserves to be seen. Let's make sure it is.
[Join us tonight →]
See you soon! ☕
Jessica, Julie & John
P.S. Just a few hours to go—hope you'll be there! |
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📚Tuesday, October 21, 8:30pm ET: Live Class with Jessica
✏️Wednesday, October 22, All Day: Interactive Workshop Forum
🔎Thursday, October 23, 2pm ET: Live Comp Title Feedback Panel John |
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John M. Cusick is a Senior Vice President and literary agent with Folio Jr. / Folio Literary Management, representing a diverse list of New York Times bestsellers and award winners including Julie Murphy, Joan He, Laura Sebastian, Christian McKay Heidicker, and Abdi Nazemian. He represents fiction for kids, teens, and adults, and is also the author of the YA novels GIRL PARTS and CHERRY MONEY BABY (Candlewick Press), as well as the middle-grade duology DIMENSION WHY: How to Save the Universe Without Really Trying (HarperCollins). You can find him online at https://www.foliojr.com/john-cusick. Send the books kids will sneak/steal/borrow in secret. Those personal, dangerous, life-saving stories. Genres: Children’s, Middle Grade, Picture Books, YA, author-illustrators. |
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Jessica Sinsheimer has been reading and campaigning for her favorite queries since 2004. Now an agent at the Context Literary Agency, she is always on the lookout for new writers, and–whatever the age group–she tends to love contrast: highbrow sentences and lowbrow content, beautiful settings and ugly motives–the books that are beautiful and scary, heartbreaking and hilarious. She loves secrets, scheming, revenge, plotting–and stories that have to be written forward and backward to make sense (she LOVES discovering a very cleverly planted clue that makes sense in retrospect). She’d love more of what she thinks of as “Rom Com 2.0” works–powerful, nerdy women with humor and heart. More underrepresented characters, please–especially with power, agency, and happy endings. |
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