3-Hour Publishing Seminar: Art of the Query with Emma Brodie (Zoom), Monday, October 13th, 2025

Live Seminar Via Zoom Monday, October 13th, 2025Class will meet 6:00PM - 9:00PM EST Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Taught by Emma Brodie, a Martha's Vineyard-based writer, editor, and packager. As an editor, she’s published authors including Awkwafina, Anna Drezen, Nathan W. Pyle, Marlee Grace, Deborah Hanekamp, and Emma Gray. Currently an Executive Editor at Clarkson Potter (Penguin Random House), Emma acquires a variety of illustrated non-fiction and products for the Voracious imprint. Knopf published her debut novel, Songs in Ursa Major, in 2021.  Get to know Emma in our Meet the Teaching Artist series. In my 15 years in book publishing, from starting as an assistant at a literary agency to my current gig as an executive editor at Chronicle Books, I’ve seen a lot of pitches—the good, the bad, and, occasionally, the perfumed. As a writer hoping to sell your first project, being able to query editors and agents in their own languag