Pitch Perfect with Jackie Cangro

📅 Date and Time: Saturday, January 4, 2025 at 3 o'clock Central European Time, 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time 

📍 Location: Zoom online

💸 Ticket price: Only 350 SEK (or about 25 US dollars)

Course description: 

You've written your novel or memoir and now you're ready to wow a literary agent or indie book publisher.

It’s a challenge to put it mildly. And requires you to think about your book in a different way. Your book is a creative work of art, yes, but it is also a product to be sold.

But how do you distill an entire book into a one-page letter? It's time to put on your marketing hat and think about your work in a different way. A way that will connect with professionals in the indie and traditional publishing worlds.

In this 75-minute workshop you will gain:

  • the five essential elements every query letter should have

  • the secret to the all-important pitch paragraph

  • how to distill your 300-page manuscript into 400 words

  • dos and don'ts for finding comp titles

  • how to reduce overwhelm and build confidence as you send your work into the world

Billetto, our ticketing partner, provides insurance for refunds. Tickets are transferable.

FAQs

  • SWF All Stars is a way for us to bring the magic of our in-real-life event to a virtual audience. All Star Faculty are either fan favorites from past events, or faculty members books for future ones.

  • Yes. All ticket buyers will receive a recording of the session plus Q&A within three business days after the event.

  • You'll join this webinar via your computer or other device using the Zoom web conferencing platform (see system requirements). You must be connected to the internet to join. While you will see and hear the speaker via your device, your own video will be off and your sound will be muted.

    When you register, you will receive an email confirmation with a joining link and instructions. If you do not receive this within one hour of registering, please contact us.

     

     

  • Billetto, our ticketing partner, provides insurance for ticketing. Should you choose not to get the insurance, your ticket is transferable, but not refundable.

Meet Your All Star Faculty: Jackie Cangro

Jackie Cangro is a seasoned developmental editor, workshop leader, and book coach. For nearly twenty years, Jackie worked at Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster managing their submissions by reading countless pitch letters. Her background also includes editing magazines and the book, The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Plume), which contains essays about the New York City subway system written by well-known straphangers such as Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Calvin Trillin, and Francine Prose. Jackie has appeared on a variety of broadcast media outlets such as CBS Morning News, NY1 and NPR.

Her short fiction has been published in the literary journals Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Cortland Review, and The Macguffin. Her essays and other non-fiction writing have appeared in Preservation Online, Prick of the Spindle, Narrative.ly, and History-Magazine, among others.

She teaches creative writing in person at the College of New Rochelle and online at The Loft Literary Center.

Jackie was a fan favorite at SWF22, where she delivered Pitch Perfect to rave reviews.