Literary Agent Series: Rising Above the Competition with Comp Titles Zoom Seminar with Mark Owen Gottlieb on Saturday, January 10th, 2026

Saturday, January 10th, 2026 Live Seminar Via Zoom from 1PM - 3PM Eastern Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button to talk with us. *A recording of this seminar will be made available to enrollees. Led by industry-leading literary agent at Trident Media Group Mark Owen Gottlieb. “It’s all about the comps” is a phrase commonly tossed around book publishing, but why is that so important, and what does that really mean?It's important for authors to hold themselves in high esteem, by making comparisons of their writing to success stories. That is why literary agent Mark Gottlieb of book publishing's leading literary agency Trident Media Group likes to sit down with the writers he works with and nail down what the comparative or competitive book titles to their manuscript might be, before making a submission to editors at publishing houses. Those in the publishing industry casually refer to this as asking what the "comps" are (short for comparative or competitive book titles). Th