Aug
20
12:30am
Query & Pages Panel With Agent Kayla Lightner
By The Manuscript Academy
Let's get your submission package ready! Both your query and your first page have a LOT to do with whether you get requests--and, together, we'll get those polished and agent-friendly. Even if yours isn't chosen, you'll learn how agents think--and take away lessons that will help you long into your submissions process.
The panel will be followed by a Q&A, where you can ask your burning publishing questions of our panel.
This event is open to all genres.
Can't make it live? Submit your work and watch the replay.
Kayla Lightner is an assistant and junior agent at Ayesha Pande Literary in Harlem, NY. Prior to joining the wonderful APL team, Kayla worked at Liza Dawson Associates. A Georgia native, she earned her B.A. in English from Vassar College. Before finding her way to publishing, she held various positions including a fashion market assistant at Harper’s Bazaar and a freelance writer at Creative Loafing Atlanta. An adventurous reader, Kayla loves stories—across commercial fiction, literary fiction, and nonfiction—that masterfully straddle the line between story-telling and teaching her something new. In terms of literary tastes, she loves to work with speculative fiction (SFF, horror, and magical realism), literary and upmarket family sagas, short story collections, humorous essay collections, and memoirs. When Kayla’s not reading, she can be found writing, performing stand-up, and reminiscing on her rugby days.
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