Monthly Archives: November 2009

LWC: talks to top ghostwriter, Andrew Crofts

1. Describe your taste in books in three words 

Learning New Stuff
2/What is the best and worst thing about your job?

Best. Being able to go on brief adventures and then stay at home with the family while I write about them.

Worst. Hours and days, weeks and months of typing.
3/What are you working on at the moment?

 

I am writing an [...]

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LWC talks to top agent Lucy Luck

                                                                                                                                                                        
We asked Lucy Luck of the Lucy Luck Agency some quickfire questions:
1/How would you describe your taste in books in three words?
Quality, character, plot
2/What is the best and worst thing about your job?
Best – being the first to read a new talent.  Worst – having to disappoint people, either submissions or not being able to [...]

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Q and A with top agent, Cathryn Summerhayes

London Writers’ Club asked Cathryn Summerhayes, agent with the William Morris Agency, some quick fire questions:
1/How would you describe your taste in books in three words? Contemporary, innovative, quirky
2/What is the best and worst thing about your job? Best- meeting authors, getting out and about to literary fairs, readings. Worst – contracts.
3/What are you working [...]

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Great November event with Nii Parkes

Great evening with Nii Parkes at the November London Writers’ Club event. Our first live tweeting thanks to Ben Johncock, resident Tweet-King. And great write up from member, Nicki Le Masurier:
“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ~ Franz Kafka
Perhaps you need to get out more?
If you’re a writer, published [...]

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Sue Cook talks writing @theWriteLines

Twitter Alert

Follow author and broadcaster Sue Cook on Twitter
@theWriteLines
to hear about her forthcoming BBC Radio show; it’s all about writing.

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Spooning with Rosie

 

 
It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers are in need of tea and cake so we were delighted to discover Rosie Lovell. She runs Rosie’s Deli Cafe and wrote Spooning with Rosie. Rosie is passionate about food so her book is a great example of writing about something you love.

 
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