Query Letter Boot Camp Led By C.L. Clark

Sundays, February 20th + February 27th, 2022 | 1 PM ET - 4 PM ET

Tuition | $100.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

To get an agent or sell a book, you have to be at two almost contradictory skills: telling a good story in 100,00 words and telling a good story in 300. In this query letter boot camp, we’ll work together to do just that: condense everything you love about your book into a page that will entice agents and editors (and hopefully--eventually--readers!) to read to your first pages and beyond. We’ll look at successful query letters, discuss resources, and then craft and workshop our own. We’ll even take a peek at synopses--the query letter’s unwieldy companion. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have the tools to complete your submissions packet.

About the Faculty: C.L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award winning-writer, and the author of The Unbroken, the first book in the Magic of the Lost trilogy. She graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, doing P90something, or reading about war and [post-]colonial history. Her work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and more.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.