When you sit down to write, you don’t always think about where your novel will be displayed on the shelves at a bookstore; you simply imagine it being there. With your manuscript written and the hardest part done, now is the time to identify where your novel will fit, gain attention from the right agents, editors, and publishers, and sell yourself to the people that matter. With your synopsis in hand, we will discuss how you can tailor it to showcase all of this and more to take you one step closer to publication.
Topics discussed will include:
- The conventions of individual genres
- Trope identification and subversion
- Simplifying yet specifying your synopsis
- What agents want to see
The class will:
- Use readings and examples to identify different types of genres
- Develop a list of common tropes that align to the writers’ genre
- Review individual synopses to highlight genre-specific language, wording, and tailoring for agents in that area
- In-class writing exercises (as time allows)
About Selena
Selina Marcille is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University. She has her MA in English Literature with a specialization in British Modernism and her MFA in Fiction Writing with a focus on young adult fiction. Her first novel, The Corpse Artiste, was published in 2020 with an indie publisher. While the publisher went out of business, she is happy to send a copy of the PDF to anyone who is interested in cozy young adult mysteries. She has been actively involved in the publishing conference scene for over a decade and has learned from the likes of RL Stine, Charlaine Harris, Meg Gardiner, Cassandra Clare, and many more about the ins and outs of getting yourself out there and how to navigate the publishing world. She listens to audiobook obsessively, has a fondness for smutty romance, and loves a killer twist, especially if it involves a killer. She is currently working on two novels, The Crossroads Killer, and adult thriller based on the unsolved cold case at Bear Brook in Allenstown, NH, and Livvy Baker’s Kiss of Death, a young adult supernatural mystery.
Where: The Ford House, SNHU, 2500 N River Rd, Hooksett NH
When: November 18, 2023, 10:00AM-12:15PM
Cost: $65 Members/$85 Nonmembers
Registration Link: Click Here to Register!
