The publishing industry is in a frenzy these days. Massive advances are being given out left and right and as a new generation of indie publishers such as Believer, Soft Skull and Akashic gain prominence, more and more writers are getting book deals.

For those who are in the process of shopping their manuscript around, we’re offering a workshop on How to Get and Keep a Literary Agent on Tuesday, February 7. Teaching the course, we’ve got Christopher Schelling: An agent with Ralph M. Vicinaza Ltd., he’s the guy behind Augusten Burrough’s Running with Scissors and Margaret Cho’s I’m the One That I Want.