How to Sell Any Book to Any Publisher-- Episode 299: More Info Than You Ever Thought Possible with Multi-genre author and teacher extraordinaire Sue Shapiro

How, HOW has it taken us this long to bring you the amazing Sue Shapiro? Sue teaches what is unquestionably <a href="https://www.susanshapiro.net/events.html">THE class on publishing personal essays</a>&#8212;her motto is &#8220;Instant Gratification takes too long&#8221; and her students&#8217; success record is astounding. She&#8217;s the author , co-author or editor of 16 books in genres ranging from memoir to middle-grade and including self-help and fiction. She&#8217;s a poet, an essayist and a teacher of such generosity and enthusiasm that I could probably just stop talking right now and let her go and you&#8217;d still end this podcast going man, I learned so much! Her latest book is <a href="https://www.susanshapiro.net/bookbible.html">The Book Bible: Sell Your Manuscript&#8212;No Matter What Genre&#8212;Without Going Broke or Insane</a>, and there is no one more qualified to write it. <br/><br/>The Book Bible should be taught in the first session of every writing program or MFA. It&#8217;s a how-to on getting published, but also a primer on the industry as a whole&#8212;an industry every writer should understand, ideally early in their career. We talk about learning hard lessons, the dream of &#8220;becoming a writer&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;becoming a poet/novelist/literary figure&#8221; and how many, many different ways there are to make this particular sausage. <br/><br/>Links from the pod:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.susanshapiro.net/bylinebible.html">The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks</a><br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781984819154">Amy Klein, The Trying Game</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/samantha-wekstein/">Samantha Wextein</a>, agent<br/><br/>Jess&#8217;s 3 part blog post: When Opportunity Knocks (<a href="https://www.jessicalahey.com/comingofageinthemiddle/2013/02/why-parents-need-to-let-their-children.html">part 1</a>, <a href="https://www.jessicalahey.com/comingofageinthemiddle/2013/04/when-opportunity-knocks-anatomy-of.html"