Last Chance: Land a Book Deal in 2025
If you want to get your book traditionally published in 2025—be it fiction, nonfiction, a children’s book, or memoir—increase your chances by knowing how to evaluate the commercial potential of your work and learning the best way to approach editors, agents, and publishers.
Book publishing is undergoing a dramatic transformation as e-book sales increase and physical bookstores decrease in number. These changes affect the traditional book deals that get made-meaning that authors have to adjust their strategies to adapt to a risk-averse and uncertain industry.
This intensive and information-filled 120-minute live webinar helps you think like an industry insider who makes decisions every day on what work merits print publication. You’ll get practical advice and tools to help you develop strong pitch letters and proposal materials for both fiction and nonfiction-plus back-door methods for networking with agents and editors.
If you want more online education, see the full list of WDU courses here.
Finding the Flaws: Writing Dimensional, Dynamic Characters
If our stories are populated with perfect characters who get everything handed to them, they’ll make for rather boring reads. Because audiences want—no, need—flawed characters. Readers crave the imperfect, complicated protagonists who experience real growth and development across the span of a narrative.
Yes, we read to escape the chaos of our world. But a complex, flawed protagonist and cast of characters are what ground and anchor any narrative worth reading.
Join Us For the Novel Writing Virtual Conference!
Writer’s Digest University is pleased to present an exclusive virtual conference for novel writers! On January 24-26, our Novel Writing Virtual Conference will provide expert insights from seven award-winning and bestselling authors on the finer points of how to write a novel. Spend the weekend learning techniques for honing your craft skills, refining your characters, exploring the future of publishing, and getting the tools you need to advance your career as a writer from seven different published authors, then (if you choose) pitch your novel via query letter to a literary agent. The agent will provide you with a personalized critique of your query—and maybe ask to see more.
Join Writer’s Digest in Italy in 2025!
Writers from around the world and throughout the centuries have found inspiration from the beauty of Florence and the surrounding Tuscan countryside. Now, you can be one of them! Join Writer’s Digest in Florence and Tuscany this fall for the most awe-inspiring writing retreat available!
