Craft Seminar: How to Sell Your Book with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Craft Seminar: How to Sell Your Book with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
1 Session: Monday, May 11
7:00-9:00pm ET
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of the national bestseller, The American Daughters, as well as The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, which was longlisted for the Story Prize, and We Cast a Shadow, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize. All three books were New York Times Editor’s Choice selections.
Selling a novel can be frustrating and mysterious. Sometimes it may feel like getting book contract with a publisher is impossible, or, worse, that the odds are stacked against you. But successful novels are published every year.
This lecture style class is designed to provide writers with a comprehensive knowledge base and set of tools to go from unpublished to having a book on a shelf at the bookstore. Topics will include completing a manuscript, finding an agent, and signing with the correct publisher. By the end of this session, writers will have a better understanding of the publishing industry and how to succeed in selling their book. This class is for writers who have a manuscript that is complete or nearly complete.
Workshop Highlights:
Selling a book is difficult and frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
Writers will learn what agents and editors expect.
Writers will have a better understanding of the publishing industry and how to succeed in selling their book.
This class has 2 scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Friday, May 1.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s most recent book is The American Daughters (One World, 2024), which Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called "a vibrant picture of antebellum New Orleans." He is also the author of the story collection The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You (One World, 2021), which was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and longlisted for the Story Prize. His first book, We Cast a Shadow (One World, 2019), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was longlisted for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Award for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Kenyon Review, and Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America.
