Revisions: PBs with Tricia Lawrence

September 10th, 2017 - October 5th, 2017

with Brooke McIntyre

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Preparing your picture book or easy reader manuscript for submission? Get your manuscript critiqued by Tricia Lawrence of Erin Murphy Literary Agency. You'll also meet other serious Kidlit writers, sharpen your eye by giving feedback and receive the benefits of workshopping with a small group. How it works: Submit your manuscript to the group when the group officially kicks off on September 10th. Then, group members have 2 weeks to exchange feedback on one another's work (you are expected to critique all submissions). Tricia will post her critiques towards the end of that time. After critiques are complete, writers meet with Tricia via web meeting on September 28th. Each writer gets one-on-one time to discuss their manuscript with the Tricia during this meeting, and the remaining time is for your general questions. Participants will have the opportunity to query Tricia after the event's close.

The group will be capped at 10 writers plus Tricia to keep the workload manageable. This means participants will be expected to critique 9 submissions.

Notes

Who this workshop is for: Writers of picture books and easy readers ready for agent feedback and interested in meeting other children's writers.

Focus:

Group size: 8 writers

Submissions: Participants will submit 1 complete picture book manuscript of 1000 words or less, or an easy reader submission of 2000 words or less.

Fee

Members: $72; Non-members: $90

About Brooke McIntyre

Tricia is the "Pacific Northwest branch" of EMLA—born and raised in Oregon, and now lives in Seattle. After 22 years of working as a developmental and production-based editor (from kids books to college textbooks, but mostly college textbooks), she joined the EMLA team in March 2011 as a social media strategist.

Tricia represents picture books/chapter books that look at the world in a unique and unusual way, with characters that are alive both on and off the page, and middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction that offers strong world building, wounded narrators, and stories that grab a reader and won't let go.

Tricia loves hiking, camping out in the woods, and collecting rocks. She loves BBC America and anything British. She has way too many books and not enough bookshelves. You can find Tricia's writing about blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking, and other social media topics (for authors and the publishing industry at large) at http://authorblogger.net/ and http://trishlawrence.com/.

Schedule:

Submit when ready. Then, members have 3 weeks to get their feedback returned.