DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PORN & EROTICA – JUSTIFYING WHAT AND WHY I DO IT....
There was a debate by an organisation called Intelligence Squared at the Royal Institution last Tuesday 23rd April where the motion was ‘pornography is good for us: without it we would be a far more...
View ArticleBack by popular demand: The Meet the Industry blogs
After the wonderful response to our ‘Meet the Agents’ blogs in the run up to last year’s Festival of Writing, we’ve decided to do it all again. So we’re going to be running a series of ‘Meet the...
View ArticleMeet the Industry: Hodder & Stoughton’s Suzie Doore
Suzie Dooré, Hodder & Stoughton Suzie is Editorial director at Hodder & Stoughton. Hodder & Stoughton is a major publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups....
View ArticleMeet the Industry: A.M Heath’s Julia Churchill
Julia Churchill, A.M Heath Julia Churchill joined AM Heath in 2013 as Children’s Agent, after four years building up the UK side of the Greenhouse Literary Agency, and six years at the Darley Anderson...
View ArticleMeet the Industry: Andrew Lownie’s David Haviland
David Haviland, Andrew Lownie David is an agent at the Andrew Lownie agency, he is also a writer, editor, and ghostwriter, with a number of bestselling books to his name.The Andrew Lownie Literary...
View ArticleDaren King on DRAMA, CONFLICT and TENSION
An author on my mentoring course recently asked me what is meant by DRAMA, CONFLICT and TENSION. She knew what these words mean in the what-it-says-in-the-dictionary sense, but she was not sure what...
View ArticleFinding ideas for a book: further thoughts
One of the strangest things about being an author is the way we write contracts for inspiration. Back in 2010, I sold a crime novel, Talking to the Dead, to those lovely people at Orion. We ended up...
View ArticleThe Road to Obscurity: Jon Spira’s Publishing Adventure Part One.
I wrote a book. I hadn’t ever written a book before. I had written a lot of other things, though. I worked for several years as a screenwriter, I’ve been an active blogger for more than a decade and,...
View ArticleMeet the Industry: Francesca Main, Editorial Director at Picador
Francesca Main is Editorial Director at Picador. She graduated from the University of Warwick in 2002 and began her publishing career with an internship at Blake Friedmann Literary Agency before...
View ArticleMeet the Industry: Madeleine Milburn,The Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency
Madeleine Milburn, The Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency Madeleine Milburn has a reputation for launching new writers internationally. The Agency has a long-term vision and an...
View ArticleMeet the Industry: Jenny Savill, Andrew Nurnberg Associates
Jenny Savill, Andrew Nurnberg Associates Andrew Nurnberg Associates was founded in London in 1977 and represents some leading UK and US agent and publisher clients for translation rights through ANA’s...
View ArticleMeet the Industry: Juliet Mushens, The Agency Group
Juliet Mushens is an Agent in the UK Literary Division of The Agency Group. Before becoming a literary agent, Juliet worked in fiction marketing and editorial at HarperCollins, after reading history at...
View ArticleOn Being a Writer: some reflections
I recently received an email from a writer, who said: I wanted to write to you directly because there’s something I’d be keen to learn from your own personal experience – Did you find, when you first...
View ArticleBook cover cliches
Buzzfeed has a very funny – and observant – piece here on some of the book cover cliches that our bookshops are full of. Very much worth a look. It’s got categories you’d expect (“Woman looking out...
View ArticleGuest Post – Hilton Pashley on his road to success.
In a recent email, Harry mentioned to me the importance of luck in the process of getting a manuscript to publication. It’s a funny thing, luck. Regardless of how hard and how well you work at a...
View ArticleMeet the Industry: Carrie Kania, Conville & Walsh
Carrie Kania is an agent at Conville & Walsh. Before packing her bags and leaving ‘Bright Lights’ to search for ‘Brideshead’, Carrie Kania worked in US publishing for 15 years at Random House and...
View ArticleHow Not To Write A Bestseller
We recently came across How Not To Write a Bestseller by Walter Ellis, available to e-bookers for a princely £2.99. The book made us laugh and it has some tough and honest points to make. So here’s how...
View ArticleMeet the Industry: Charlie Brotherstone, A.M Heath
Charlie Brotherstone, A.M Heath Charlie has been at A.M.Heath since 2008 and is actively building a list of fiction and non-fiction authors. He is on the lookout for strong and exciting voices, whether...
View ArticleAgent Polly Nolan on this Year’s Greenhouse Funny Prize
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had the rib-tickling delight of judging entries for the Greenhouse Funny Prize. This is the second year that we’ve held the Prize and once again we were lucky enough...
View ArticleA Guest post from Laurence O’Bryan.Traditional Publishing is Dead.
My third novel, The Manhattan Puzzle, will be published by Harper Collins October 10, 2013. But this is not a traditional puff piece about the novel. This is about my experiences being published by a...
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