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The Manuscript Academy brings you conversations with agents, editors, and writers who can help you on your publishing journey.
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every 26 days
Average audio length:
35 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
263 episodes
since Nov. 2, 2016
episodic
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More than 1,500 of you voted for memoir, so we brought you three agents for one of our first single-genre MSWL Live panels! Taj McCoy (Laura Dail Literary Agency), Katharine Sands (Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency), and Stephanie Winter (KO Media Management) share what’s working in memoir right …
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Out of the 200 stories that land in an agent’s inbox, why should yours be the one she reads? Agent Fiona Kenshole of Transatlantic Agency joins us from our Presentation Party to share what she looks for in a query, and why there are really no hard rules, only what works.
Before agenting, Fiona was…
Julia Alexandra knows rejection. After querying in high school and again in graduate school, she hit a wall of passes on a book she now admits wasn't ready. Worse, she spent years self-rejecting, holding back books that were probably ready long before she sent them.
In this episode, Jessica Sinshe…
It's one of the most common questions in our inbox: what's the difference between commercial, literary, and upmarket fiction, and which one is my book?
(Video version here https://youtu.be/AMGl98NhtT4?si=mGcpIWTloL_HgMms)
This week, agent Kaitlyn Sanchez of Bradford Literary finally makes it mak…
How does an author go from 1,000 rejections to New York Times Bestseller? Tune in to find out!
Senior editor Ruqayyah Daud (LBYR/Requited/Hachette Book Group) and her author Jordan Stephanie Gray sit down to talk about what actually happens between "I love this manuscript" and a book on shelves: w…
Comp titles are second only to platform as the most feared part of a writer's journey--but they don't have to be scary.
In this episode, editor and author coach Hannah Robinson breaks comp titles down into something writers already do instinctively every day: describing an unfamiliar thing by con…
It's Manuscript Academy's 10th anniversary season--and to kick it off, co-founders Jessica Sinsheimer (agent, Context Literary Agency, co-founder of #MSWL, Manuscript Wish List®, and The Manuscript Academy®) and Julie Kingsley (award-winning author, media professor + co-founder of The Manuscript A…
Join us for a members-only chat answering YOUR questions, exclusive teasers on upcoming Academy features, and going over your pages, live. This was live-recorded February 26, 1:00pm. If you'd like to submit your work (or questions!) for feedback, help, or compassionate insight, please do so at http…
Also on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/QaWwJ8O5NFA
In this episode of the Manuscript Academy Podcast, hosts Julie Kingsley and Jessica Sinsheimer introduce new tools and features for writers, including a comp title finder, an advanced agent search, and a writer group creator.
They discuss the deve…
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