Too many writers have a great nonfiction book idea but don’t know how to pitch the book to an agent. A special one-day-only sale at mediabistro.com can help you write that pitch and meet an agent.

Today (October 30) only, you can get 30 percent off all multi-week courses when you sign up using promo code SAVE30 while submitting payment. You can use that discount to get book pitching ideas straight from an agent. The Nonfiction Book Proposal class is held in New York, starting November 5. This course is taught by Mollie Glick (pictured) from Foundry Literary + Media.

If your work or life schedule won’t permit classroom visits, mediabistro.com will also offer a Nonfiction Book Proposal online, starting November 18. Here’s more about Glick’s course: There is a basic formula for nonfiction book proposals and when broken down into parts, this formula can be easy to learn. By workshop’s end, you’ll be armed with a fully realized proposal that you can take to agents and start selling your book.”

Last week agents at the growing Foundry Literary + Media agency sold three books in three days, bucking the odds during an industry slow-down.

According to Publishers Weekly, McGuigan sold North American rights for Economist journalist Robert Lane Greene‘s “Talk This Way: The Politics of Language” to Bantam, Stephanie Abou sold North American rights for Jamal Joseph‘s “Panther Baby” to Algonquin, and Mollie Glick sold Jim Roberts’s “Shiny Objects: How We Lost Our Way on the Road to the American Dream” to HarperOne.

Here’s more about “Panther Baby” from the article: “Academy Award-nominee Joseph (for best original song: ‘Raise It Up’ from the film August Rush), the youngest Black Panther to be sent to jail in the ‘Panther 21′ case, will describe how he went on to co-found a creative arts program in Harlem aimed at bringing young people off the streets. Joseph is the first African-American to head the graduate film program at Columbia.”