You Wrote a Book, Now What? A 'How to Get Published' Workshop

Gain an insider’s view of book publishing with Jan Kardys, president of Black Hawk Literary Agency LLC, April 3 at 1:30 p.m. at the Garden City Public Library.

Understand how to find and lure the right literary agent. Learn to work with all of the departments within a publishing company. Master book proposal and query letter writing skills. Understand subsidiary right sales as well as special and premium right sales. Explore effective Internet marketing and promotion. Even learn how to research the competition before you write your book! There will be handouts and a question and answer period.

Kardys has 30 years of diversified publishing experience for nine major publishing corporations. Kardys was director of contracts for Warner Books/Little, Brown & Company, director of contracts at Macmillan Publishing Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, and contracts director at Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster.

She has worked at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Doubleday, Scholastic, Lippincott & Crowell, Publishers, St. Martin's Press, Conde Nast Publications and Google. Beginning her career in editorial, Kardys also worked in art and production in school publishing. In addition to her work as a literary agent, she created Unicorn Writers' Conference, which will host its second conference April 9 in Portland, CT.

This program is for all those writers who are secretly or not-so-secretly working on a manuscript. Remember – don’t forget to bring your books, books in progress and/or your book ideas. For further information, contact reference librarian Laura Flanagan at 742-8405.