Literary agency
This is your final reminder that Virtual Writers’ Weekend is taking place starting tomorrow (July 9)! Also, Zeno’s very own Kristina Pérez will be offering one-to-ones with aspiring authors during the weekend.
For full details on how to attend the virtual conference and events, be sure to visit the website.
The Virtual Writers’ Weekend is taking place between July 9-12th! Zeno’s very own Kristina Pérez will be offering one-to-ones with aspiring authors during the weekend.
For full details on how to attend the virtual conference and events, be sure to visit the website.
In case you missed it last week, the video for Kristina Pérez‘s latest webinar is now available! The event, which was co-hosted by Mayra Cuevas, was a huge success.
Here are some more details of the event…
Las Musas authors Mayra Cuevas and Kristina Perez share everything you need to know about literary agents.
In this webinar they discuss:
-What makes a project publishable?
-The role of an agent
-Query letters that work
-What should be in your synopsis
-Who should I query?
-How to approach agents via cold query emails and writers’ conferences.
-Agency representation agreements
-Your questions answered!
This Friday, Kristina Pérez will be taking part in an #AskAgent Live Q&A! Part of the Las Musas Webinar series, Kristina will be joined by Mayra Cuevas and together they will ‘share everything you need to know about literary agents’!
Th webinar — which will take place at noon EST (5pm GMT) will discuss the following topics (among any others that arise during the Q&A):
-What makes a project publishable?
-The role of an agent
-Query letters that work
-What should be in your synopsis
-Who should I query?
-How to approach agents via cold query emails and writers’ conferences.
-Agency representation agreements
-Your questions answered!
You need to register for the event, so be sure to do so ahead of time!
Last week, as part of a series of online events held by Las Musas, Zeno agent Kristina Pérez gave a webinar about world building. The organization recorded the event, and you can watch it above!
On Friday, April 24th, agent Kristina Pérez is hosting a world-building webinar as part of a Las Musas series of online events! Here are some more details…
Do you love sci-fi and fantasy? Wondering how authors build their worlds from the ground up? Then sign up for the World Building 101 workshop, aimed at both readers and writers, for insight into creating complex, diverse worlds and techniques for developing your own. …
In this 60min interactive webinar, Kristina will guide you through the basics of world building with reference to popular YA and adult fantasy and sci-fi novels. There will also be the opportunity to brainstorm our own world together and ask questions. Participants will leave with research tips, new resources, and the tools needed to bring new worlds to life!
You do need to register for the event, and we expect this to be a popular one! So, head on over to Las Musas’s website to register for this event.
We are delighted to welcome author and academic Kristina Pérez, who is joining Zeno Agency Ltd. as an Associate Agent! The news was announced via Publishers Lunch, the Bookseller and other outlets.
Pérez will be building a list focusing on YA, SFF, Romance and a wide range of nonfiction projects, and is particularly interested in taking on BAME and marginalised writers.
Founded in 2008, Zeno Agency represents a top-drawer range of authors, both as primary agent and in association with a number of well-known agencies abroad. Clients include Ben Aaronovitch, Brandon Sanderson, Charlaine Harris and William Gibson, as well as other high-profile award winners, talented debut authors and prestigious literary estates.
Director of Zeno, John Berlyne said, ‘Kristina brings a huge array of talents to Zeno. Her background as a writer, in fiction, in journalism and in academia offers experience and knowledge that will be of huge benefit to her clients. I’m very excited and delighted to welcome her to the agency.’
Kristina Pérez, whose concluding title in her Sweet Black Waves trilogy will be published next year by Macmillan US, said, ‘I am incredibly excited to take the next step in my publishing career as a literary agent with an agency as distinguished and dynamic as Zeno. I look forward to championing new authors and promoting diverse voices.’
If you’re on Twitter, Kristina can be found here.
Zeno’s other Associate Agent, Louise Buckley, represents Anne Griffin whose debut WHEN ALL IS SAID was published earlier this year to great acclaim, reaching #1 in the Irish fiction charts and selling into over a dozen territories.
Further expansion of the agency is underway, with more announcements to come!