An EIGHT WEEK program to get your pitch FINISHED, SEEN and REVIEWED by editors and agents. 

With an option to publish at SAW.

saw rites:
Get Your Pitch Done and Seen

The key ingredients that make this different from any other program: 

  • WE WILL FINISH THE PITCH FOR YOU

    • This includes writing, researching and formatting and finalizing the PDF

  • WE WILL HELP YOU MAKE FIXES, 

    • THIS MIGHT INCLUDE STORY, OR MORE LIKELY, LETTERING, ETC. 

    • We will DO THAT for you.

  • WE WILL DESIGN A MARKETING PLAN 

    • and enact it for you for two months

  • WE WILL PUT IT IN FRONT OF 3 AGENTS AND 3 EDITORS in the course of the eight weeks

    • And if it doesn’t get picked up… 

    • WE WILL PUBLISH IT,  AND GET IT ON AMAZON

What’s Involved:

  • Introductory review of your work in progress by Tom, Maureen or , including your pitch proposal

  • List of items to develop before finalizing

  • Plan to finish with clear action items for SAW to finish with or for you

  • 8 weeks of calls and action plans:

    • Weekly action items for you and for SAW to finalize your package

    • A cohort of less than 12

    • Two weekly group calls with a Tom and a professional editor, agent or publisher.

    • 3 calls each with a different agent who each will look at your work and offer feedback.

    • 3 calls each with a different publisher who each will look at your work and offer feedback.

    • Four 1-on-1s with Tom, Maureen or a equivalent per your needs to complete your project.

invitE only 

This is a trial run of a new opportunity which may or may not happen again.

Pricing:

$2999 for the calls and access to professional feedback only

$3999 for the above plus if you want us to prepare the pitch package for you

A word from Tom about the program:

Hi everyone!

We believe this is a HIGH VALUE program, because you want to get your Pitch Done and Out There.

Further, you want your BOOK OUT THERE. And we do too. We think the world would be better with it out there.

If you’re here, we’ve worked with you in the past and believe in your work, and we are pulling strings to get your work ready and seen.

We are also prepared to do the work for you to make the pitch professional for you. That includes writing, formatting, even lettering if you haven’t gotten that down yet (it matters!)

We are prepared to help you make a plan to finish your book.

AND our guarantee- if you don’t connect with an agent or publisher, WE will publish it. We are preparing to launch a micro-press called SAW Comix Rites and we will publish your book and get it onto Amazon and Bookshop.org.

WHY SAW RITES?

We believe publishing some books, especially about life transitions, is a rite of passage, and you deserve to have that experience. Our role here is of community leaders / guides to help you through the process of writing and drawing your story, and having it finally in your hands and in your community’s hands. We want that for you.

What Publishing Means and what it costs

We’ve often said, Publishing is Easy, Distributing is Hard. We will publish the book and guarantee its availability on Amazon.com, our stores and at our festival appearances for a year. That is a guarantee.

We aim to have it on Bookshop.org and order-able by your local bookstore or library. That is not guaranteed yet.

Our publishing program is a HYBRID model of publishing, meaning the author and publisher both incur costs to publish the book. The cost for this part of the program is $4000. We will publish your book in a print run of 200 copies. You will get 40 copies of the book, and a full accounting of everything else (it costs about $2000 to print a book and about $1000 active hours to put it together. ) We will do everything we can to get the remaining copies into readers’ hands.

Here is more info on HYBRID publishing including some pros and cons: https://authorsguild.org/resource/hybrid-publishing-what-you-need-to-know-about-book-publishings-newest-business-model/

And to continue, here is “10 Awful Truths About Publishing".” Please note 4,5 and especially 7. You know that at SAW we believe in what we do, and so our mission is to help find and create an audience for honest, heartfelt books about real living.

As always, feel free to write us with questions or comments, at the button to the lower right! You know where to find us.

Yours,

Tom