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23 Oct
23 Oct
Live Class: The False Choice: Writing for Passion vs. Writing to Market—and the Book That Does Both
Friday 23 October ⋅ 17:00 – 18:00 (UTC)
Supposedly there are two kinds of writers: the artist who writes “what matters to her” and starves, and the hack who “writes what sells” and feels empty. It’ s not true. The best-selling books are not the ones that abandoned the writer’ s obsessions or the ones that ignored the market. They’ re the ones that smuggled something the author cared about inside a form readers couldn’ t put down. This session takes apart the passion-versus-market binary and turns it into a craft issue: how do you write a book that is unmistakably yours and genuinely attracts lots of readers?
As an editor, writer, and publishing consultant, Jonathan Baker has worked with Richard Powers, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Palliser, John Lahr, and Jonathan Eig, among many other authors, and his projects have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. He lives in Portland, Maine.
As an editor, writer, and publishing consultant, Jonathan Baker has worked with Richard Powers, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Palliser, John Lahr, and Jonathan Eig, among many other authors, and his projects have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. He lives in Portland, Maine.
https://manuscriptacademy.com/live-events
27 Oct
27 Oct
27 Oct 2026, 18:00 ‧ 28 Oct 2026, 2:00 (UTC)
It's The Manuscript Academy's 10 year anniversary, and we're celebrating with parties for each of our favorite genres! 🎉
Included with Membership / $39 early bird | $49 regular.
Join us at 2pm ET for five mini classes taught by top agents and editors. View list of classes + schedule here.
8:30pm ET: Live Agent Feedback Panel. Queries + pages will be chosen at random, by subgenre. All subgenres and age groups welcome (If you're writing horror picture books...we want to be your friend.)
All Day: Meet your best new writing friends--your future critique partners, beta readers, and writing groups, all people in your genre, in our query + page workshop forum and our networking forums.
This event is designed to work for all subgenres, age groups, and time zones. Everything comes with a replay, timestamps, and downloadable notes.
All materials available for 30 days (until November 29) with purchase.
Included with Membership / $39 early bird | $49 regular.
Join us at 2pm ET for five mini classes taught by top agents and editors. View list of classes + schedule here.
8:30pm ET: Live Agent Feedback Panel. Queries + pages will be chosen at random, by subgenre. All subgenres and age groups welcome (If you're writing horror picture books...we want to be your friend.)
All Day: Meet your best new writing friends--your future critique partners, beta readers, and writing groups, all people in your genre, in our query + page workshop forum and our networking forums.
This event is designed to work for all subgenres, age groups, and time zones. Everything comes with a replay, timestamps, and downloadable notes.
All materials available for 30 days (until November 29) with purchase.
https://genre.manuscriptacademy.com/
31 Oct
It's last call for the the Genre Party: SF/F recordings.
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