Everything You Need to Get a Literary Agent

Hey forever workshopers, hi.

You don’t want to miss this so we’re not letting you.

Your subscription grants you access to some fantastic live events. This one with

Shannan Mann

and Literary Agent & Editor

Sasha Landauer

was dumb valuable—so here’s the recording.

In this event they covered:

• Query letter red (and orange!) flags from an agent’s perspective

• The state of the current literary market and the debut writer’s place in it

• How to find the perfect agent for your book

• Navigating the query trenches with memoirs, short story collections, and novels

• Being a successful author without social media hype

• The working relationship between publishing houses, literary agents, and writers

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Sasha Landauer is a literary agent at Writers House and co-editor of Notch Magazine. Before entering publishing, she founded a venture-backed outdoor gear startup, reported as a small-town journalist, exhumed human remains on an archaeological dig in Mauritius, and interned with the foreign exchange team at Bridgewater. Sasha studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University. She now lives in New York.

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