Learn Everything You Need To Know About Writing Your Book and Getting it Published With a Top Publishing House With Judymay Murphy
Date: Saturday, the 28th of March and Sunday, the 29th of March, 2020
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York time)
How: Judymay will teach this class live and online so you can attend from anywhere in the world.
You'll receive a link to join the class live and the recordings will be sent to you afterwards.
Are you ready to either get your first book out there successfully or to massively build on your previous successes as an author?
Would you like to do this in the most time efficient way possible while creating a work of great quality?
Judymay Murphy knows the mistakes people make and the things they fail to do correctly when it come to creating your book.
She’s also expert in how to leverage the various parts of the book industry to make sure your book is bought and read and serves your life after you’ve spent so much time on it.
Saturday, March 28th, from 10am -2pm EST (New York time)
Here's what you'll learn on our first day of making your dream of finally holding your own book in hand (!) a reality:
- Identifying exactly how your book can be part of your ultimate dream life - what it can do for you and for the world.
- Deciding on your genre, content and publishing style.
- Structuring your book, chapters and word count.
- Structuring your daily and weekly writing plan and your timeline for your first draft.
- What makes good writing good? Principles for fiction and non-fiction.
- How precisely to get feedback on your first draft as opposed to flattery and opinion.
- Revising and editing (very different disciplines).
- Getting your manuscript ready to send to a publisher.
- Choosing the range of publishing houses that you will be sending your submission to.
- Emotional mastery of the process.
Sunday, March 29th, from 10-2pm EST (New York time)
Day 2 is all about bringing your book out into the world so your message can actually take flight:
- Putting together the seven different elements of your submission.
- The mistakes that most people make in approaching agents and publishers and how to avoid these mistakes.
- Should you go for an agent or go straight to a publisher?
- Do you need a proof reader, editor, or coach at this stage? The answer is that you can do without any of them but you need to know what they do so that your submission can be of the highest quality.
- How, when and where to approach agents and publishers. Timing and the first two sentences are everything!
- How to avoid hearing ‘no’ and carry the process through to contract stage.
- What to look out for in your contract.
- Domestic and worldwide territories.
- Marketing and media for your book and why you need to have this worked out ahead of time.
- What do you need to do in between signing your contract and the book launch day.
ABOUT JUDYMAY
Over the last 20 years, Judymay Murphy had had eight books published all around the world in multiple languages with top publishing houses including Random House, HCI books, O’Brien Press, Capallen Damm and many others.
She has also helped dozens of people to get their book well published with a reputable publisher. Much of this process includes making sure that people don’t spend ridiculous amounts of money on people who claim that their courses, services or coaching will get you there when they themselves have little or no success in, or experience of the book industry.
The book industry has changed so much over the last 30 years, and continues to change all the time so things that might have worked even five years ago are no longer valid today.
You need a solid structure with up-to-date information so that you can enjoy the process of bringing your book to life and then bringing it to the world. Judymay Murphy is the real deal and just five minutes in her company will show you that she really knows her stuff!
She has a four year primary degree and a three year Masters in literature from Trinity College Dublin.