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.

Course Schedule: Wednesdays 9pm EDT, next dates TBD

• 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
  • Elevator Pitches
• 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: Group Sharing & Feedback

Can’t make it on Wednesday nights? Don’t worry—the video will be posted on the private site ASAP after the live class.

Cost:

Lesson 1—Free to The Writing Reveille subscribers

Query Edit—$35

Lesson 5 on writing the query letter plus a written query critique—$69

Full package (all 8 lessons and 2 query edits)—$235 $179

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
• 2 query edits from professional editor Lara Willard (2 passes on 1 or 1 pass on 2)
• Invitation to a private Facebook group for StoryCadet alumni
• 50% off any other StoryCadet workshop (limit 1 per course)

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