Cadet Course (Submission and Publication)—A course in deciding between self-publishing and traditional publishing, pitching your story, finding and querying agents and editors, and going on submission. Subscribe to be notified of course schedules and updates.
Course Schedule: Wednesdays 9pm EDT, June 8–July 27
- Lesson 1: Choosing Self-Publishing or Traditional
- Lesson 2: Understanding Age Categories and Genres
- Lessons 3–4: Pitching Your Work
- Genre, World, Concept, Theme
- Character, Goal, Obstacles, Stakes
- Lessons 5–6: Submitting Your Work
- Writing the Query Letter (or Back Cover Copy)
- Choosing Agents (or Presses) to Query
- Lesson 7: Responses and Rejections
- Lesson 8: Calls and Contracts—Author Interview
Cost:
Lesson 8, Interview with Jackie Lea Sommers, author of Truest (HarperTeen, 2015)—Free for anyone
Query Edit Only—$35 
Lesson 5 plus a written query critique—$69
Full package—$199 before June 1, $209 after May 31
What You Get in the Full Package:
- The complete workshop: 8 video lectures with pitching exercises
- A step-by-step walkthrough for writing query letters (or back cover copy)
- A private forum for submitting your exercises and receiving feedback from other students and the course instructor
- A query critique from Lara
- Invitation to a private Facebook group for StoryCadet alumni
Story Cadet 