1/What’s your job title?
Editor at Faber & Faber
2/What are you working on at the moment?
I’ve just published Louise Doughty’s amazing novel WHATEVER YOU LOVE and am now thinking about how to make the paperback massive! I’m also editing a great debut novel and have just bought an exciting non-fiction book but neither has been officially announced yet [...]
How can a blog help to sell your book?
A week ago, I had a meeting with a publisher – I was pitching a book and telling them what great hits the author had with their blog. They said, ‘yes, well blog stats don’t lead to sales’ – I only wish I had the presence of [...]
A debut novel sold last month to Pan Macmillan by the American author, Vanessa Diffenbaugh, called The Language of Flowers. Pan Macmillan won the nine-publisher UK auction for a six-figure sum. The novel has already been sold in the States for more than $1 million and there have been auctions in every major territory.
It tells the [...]
How true this is.
We all write differently and though some get het up about their way being the right way, whether you are a beginner, an intermediate or a published author you’re entitled to do it your way.
I’d even say it’s essential to find and do it your way; try to do it ‘the right [...]
LWC: Thank you to author, Sam Taylor, for this guest blog on the Importance of Daydreaming.
It’s one of my most vivid childhood memories: the sarcastic adult voice, my classmates’ mocking laughter, dragging me rudely from the daydream into which I had, without meaning to, retreated. All my early life, I was told that I [...]
Thank you to Ivan Salcedo, one of our participants on the Fiction Masterclass for tweeting this morning: “Excellent 1st part of the masterclass. Miranda Glover gave some of the clearest and most sensible advice I’ve heard re fiction.”
There’s still time to join the Fiction Masterclass as all classes are recorded and as soon as you’ve [...]
And, drum roll…..the winners are:
Lito Apostolakou
and
Ivan Salcedo
We will be sending you details shortly on how to join the Masterclass.
Thank you again to all other participants and do contact us if you’d like to take advantage of the 20% discounts exclusive to competition entrants.
The shortlist for the LWC competition was announced earlier today by the Bookerseller’s blogger, Ben Johncock at the London Book Fair (two winners from this list to receive a free place on the LWC fiction masterclass). We asked each entry for a one sentence pitch on their novel (not an easy task in itself):
Lito Apostolakou:
“The Vanishing [...]
This evening sees the start of LWC’s Fiction Masterclass. We have a couple more places that need to be filled. Let us know by 6pm today if you’d like to take up a place. All classes will be recorded so don’t worry if you can’t ’make’ every class.
LWC’s Fiction Masterclass is run via teleclasses - so no need to leave [...]
Thanks for everyone who retweeted our masterclass comp offer. ‘I want to write a novel and I would love to win a free place on London Writers Club global fiction masterclass.’
Please add a comment here so we have your name and email address for the draw and also tell us - in one line - what [...]