Getting Your First Novel Published: Using Your Expertise As A Lawyer is designed to show attending attorneys how to get their first novel published. There will be exercises and networking opportunities. Attendees will have an opportunity to get their query letters and pitch reviewed and evaluated. NOTE: Course attendees will get the most out of the course if they bring samples of their writing for the writing groups and faculty to critique.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Following this course, you will be able to:

• Understand what fiction sells
• Create ideas for novels with commercial potential
• Understand how the book publishing business works
• Write a superior query letter
• Understand how to locate and work with the right agent
• Submit novel excerpts prior to completion of your novel
• Submit their novel directly to editors
• Evaluate the utility of unsolicited submissions
• Deciding whether to use a book doctor
• Evaluate whether to self-publish
• Know what to realistically expect in their first book contract
• Access the additional resources they need
• Find an agent
• Get their first novels published 

Sheree speaks about all areas of publishing at colleges, writers' conferences, and seminars across the country, including the 92^nd Street Y in New York City, and she also teaches the publishing overview course at NYU. She has also promoted her books on hundreds of radio shows and many TV shows (including Good Day New York, Eyewitness News, News Four New York, among others). She has a column called "Ask the Agent," and she is a member of both the Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR) and the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).

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