The Manuscript Academy Event Calendar

Members: $0 | Non-Members: $14.99 | Includes after-party critique partner networking ✨in our NEW virtual space✨ Get your ​tickets here: https://manuscriptacademy.com/product/live-panel-with-agent-liv-ivanovAs always, work will be chosen at random, by genre. Your odds are far better than a public, ticketed panel.One of the hardest parts of submitting your work is ensuring that your query and page are ready to go. Together, we will get your queries and pages (as many as we can, drawn at random) ready for submission. Even if yours isn't chosen, you'll learn how agents things--and take away lessons that will help you long into your submissions process.The panel will be followed by a Q&A, where you can ask your burning publishing questions of our panel.This event is open to all genres and age groups. Can't make it live? Submit your work and watch the replay.

NEW: Interact with your fellow members as if you're at the best in-person, yet still introvert-friendly, almost-3d cocktail party. Yes, there is something of a learning curve to use this new virtual "space" but your friends are here to help. Come ready to say hello, make friends, and find your new support system.

View event here: https://manuscriptacademy.com/your-live-event#viewTackling a revision can be daunting and sometimes sneaks in like an entirely different kind of writer’s block. In this class, agent & author Monica Rodriguez will dive into some tools that can help conquer your next revision, how to deal with an overwhelming overhaul, and strategies on how to process receiving feedback so that revising feels less intimidating. Let's discuss the different stages of your manuscript and how to get it ready for your next yes!   Monica Rodriguez is the Director of Brand Management at Context Literary Agency and has over 10 years of marketing experience. With a degree in public relations from The University of Texas at Austin, she started her marketing career supporting non-profits and the arts. After gaining experience at an advertising agency, she worked on multi-million dollar advertising campaigns within the tourism industry for over five years. At Context, she helps authors connect with partnerships that enhance their writing careers, supporting their books before and after they’ve hit the shelves.Her love for books can be traced back to elementary school, where the best days were spent attending book fairs and author readings. In addition to her brand management role, Monica is a Junior Agent with a mission to help uplift underrepresented voices in publishing, specifically within the Latinx community. In children’s literature, she is actively looking for PB, MG, YA & Graphic Novels. She is also open to adult and non-fiction submissions.Today, Monica spends her free time in Austin’s public libraries, reading outside, or snuggling with her dog Jude. She is the creator of Find A Lovely Life, a lovely place focused on self-love, mental health, and life advice. She is also an author and contributes to online outlets covering her favorite tv shows and movies. Find her social @loveleemonicaa.

Members-Only and included with membership.Editing is subjective. Hire ten editors, get ten different editorial visions. In this event, we'll bring up eight agents to review four queries (chosen at random), and YOU get to decide who edited it best. Come for the power flip (surely part of you would like to be the one judging an agent for the day?), stay for the editorial lessons.

Members Only & Included With Membership.Check here for date + time updates. We're big fans of book club fiction here at The Manuscript Academy. While we're pitched tons of works for the podcast each week, we tend to choose those with strong voice, tight plotting, unforgettable characters--and The Thrashers has all three. Julie Soto will join us Tuesday, June 4, at 2pm ET--and you're invited.We're letting you know now in case you'd like to start reading ahead--and ask your own questions of this amazing author.The book is easy to find--you can get copies at pretty much any local bookstore or library. Hope you can join us!*JULIE SOTO is a USA Today bestselling author, playwright, and actress originally from Sacramento, CA. Her musical Generation Me won the 2017 New York Musical Festival’s Best Musical award, as well as Best Book for her script. She is a musical theater geek, fandom nerd, and the author of many spicy fan fictions. Julie now lives in Fort Bragg, CA, with her dog, Charlie. She is probably drinking coffee as you read this.