![]() These conferences are incredibly helpful to aspiring authors. ![]() They are all different, yet each, in her own way, has been outstanding. “Shannon is the third agent I’ve found through Atlanta Writers Club conferences. I looked it over, got back to her with some questions, and ultimately signed on with Ms. “After some discussion via telephone and after a month of rewriting on my part and reading on hers, she sent me a contract. #BROOKS SHERMAN FINEPRINT LITERARY MANAGEMENT FULL#She requested my full manuscript and gave me an award and a small list of suggested changes to my first twenty pages. “I attended the first in-person AWC Conference last November, met virtually with one agent, who was not interested in my book, and in person, mask to mask, with Shannon Hassan from The Marsal Lyon Agency. There was still dark chocolate, the ocean, and George Weinstein. “Emerging into a world that seemed so different, so much harsher and angrier, so strangely alien and divided, I was happy to see a few things hadn’t changed. By the time we were (sort of) unfettered again, I had two books ready to submit to agents. Where I couldn’t go, my characters could. It was, for a number of reasons, simply time. ![]() ”When I parted ways with my previous agent, Jenny Bent, we separated on the best of terms. Since then my book, The Pocket Wife, sold at auction to William Morrow-Harper Collins in a two-book deal (posted on Publishers Weekly under Deals for the week and on Publishers Marketplace!!) This agent is amazing, and so is the Atlanta Writers Club! After many months of rewriting on my part and much editing on hers, she took me on as a client. I met Jenny Bent at an AWC conference when I submitted the first twenty pages of my manuscript to her for consideration. “I can’t praise the Atlanta Writers Club conferences highly enough! They are a great way to meet agents and other writers in a professional but comfortable environment. ![]()
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