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How to Get a Publishing House to Take You Seriously with Joe Ide
November 13, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
With hosts: Jeniffer Thompson and Anastasia Hipkins
Joe’s course is not your ordinary talk about tips, tricks, and secrets. Designed for aspiring writers who are serious about becoming a novelist, the class chronicles what Joe has learned on his rise from failed career after failed career to successful, critically acclaimed author.
Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where his favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. He went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers — including Hollywood screenwriter — before writing his debut novel IQ. Inspired by his early experiences and his love of Sherlock Holmes, IQ went on to win the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus awards. Snoop Dogg has signed on to executive produce a forthcoming TV series based on the IQ series. Joe’s newest novel The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel, will be released by Little, Brown and Company on February 1, 2022.
“Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective, Philip Marlowe, gets a dramatic and colorful reinvention at the hands of award-winning novelist Joe Ide. The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler’s detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he’s a quiet, lonely, and remarkably capable and confident private detective, though he lives beneath the shadow of his father, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective, famous throughout the city, who’s given in to drink after the death of Marlowe’s mother.”
Topics this course will cover:
• Discuss storytelling: the ingredients that make one story compelling and another fall flat.
• Learn Joe’s methods for creating dynamic characters and dialogue that’s sharp, smart, and entertaining.
• Introduction to his approach to building action scenes, as well as the basics of rewriting.
• Publishing field: the gatekeepers, who they are, and what they expect.
• What publishers are looking for and what they’ll reject out of hand.
• Discussion of money: advances, royalties, movie, and TV options.
• He’ll answer practical questions like I’m about to write a 300-page novel; how do I start?
Prologue or no prologue?
I’m stuck. What do I do now?
How do I write twists and turns? What am I looking for when I’m rewriting?
How do I develop my “voice”?