Creative Writing - Make your Book Pitch-ready
- 4.5
Brief Introduction
Take your novel, non-fiction book or story / poetry collection from draft to submission and beyond.Description
This course covers the key aspects required to take your book from its final draft to submission to an industry professional as well as an overview of dealing with rejections and acceptances.The eleven lectures consist of audio-accompanied videos, back-up resources (documents, pictures and videos) or quizzes.Starting with the manuscript's content and layout, this course then looks at creating a synopsis, elevator pitch and tagline, creating a cover letter then looks at the submission process, how to handle rejections and what to do when you are accepted.This course is ideal for anyone who has completed - or is nearing completion of - a novel, non-fiction book or collection of short stories or poetry. It provides encouragement for anyone who has been rejected - or fears it - with statistics of authors who have made it despite the odds being against them.
Requirements
- Requirements
- Novelists should have a completed – or near to completed – manuscript and know it well in order to create a synopsis, elevator pitch, tagline, and cover letter.
- Short story writers and poets should have the stories / poems written with an idea of the running order.