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Agents Felicity Blunt and Gráinne Fox on the importance of literary book fairs

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:30:03 GMT

This episode is also available as a full video interview on our YouTube channel

Felicity Blunt has been a literary agent with Curtis Brown since 2005, and represents authors that span the literary to commercial spectrum, including Booker Prize shortlisted Claire Keegan, Women's Prize shortlisted Meg Mason, Rosamund Lupton, Renée Knight and Gillian McAllister in addition to NYT bestselling debut authors Abi Daré and Bonnie Garmus.

Gráinne Fox is a literary agent with UTA and represents award-winning novelists, New York Times bestselling journalists and academics. Her clients have been shortlisted for, or won, various awards including The William Hill Sports Book of The Year, The Booker Prize, The Women’s Prize, The Irish Book Awards, The British Book Awards, The Orwell Prize, The Plutarch Award, the RTÉ Short Story Competition, and the NBCC.

We were delighted to have the chance to catch up with both of them just ahead of the start of this year's London Book Fair to hear why that and other literary book fairs are so important, and to talk about what really happens at these events!

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PR director Alison Barrow & author Premee Mohamed on how a publicity campaign helps a book's success

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:30:24 GMT

We talk with Transworld PR Director Alison Barrow (recent winner of Publicity Campaign of the Year at The Bookseller awards) and author Premee Mohamed about the difference a book's publicity campaign can make its success.

Links:

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Buy Premee Mohamed's books

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Dr Strange screenwriter C Robert Cargill joins us to tell us why the writers strike is happening

Mon, 08 May 2023 15:01:12 GMT

In this special episode (available in full video on our YouTube channel) dedicated to the recently announced Writers Guild of America strike, we take a look at why it's happening, what writers want, and what is likely to happen from here.

C Robert Cargill (screenwriter of Dr Strange, Sinister, The Black Phone and more) joins us to give more details from the inside, and tells us what we can do to help.

Links:

Find out more about the strike from the WGA

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Screenwriter strikes, encouraging news for self-published authors - and are ebook prices good for writers?

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:00:23 GMT

In this debut episode (available to watch as a full video episode on YouTube), we bring you all the latest writing news as we see encouraging reports about physical book sales, hear why self-published authors are often doing better than their trad published counterparts and look across to America, where a Hollywood writers' strike is looming. Plus, we look at some of the big book deals from the London Book Fair, and are joined by guest author Sam Holland to talk about the ever-shrinking price of ebooks and ask if that is good for authors.

Sam also tells us about her latest book, The Twenty, and we play a quick game (which Marco manages to mess up!)

Links:

Buy The Twenty now

Follow Sam on Twitter

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Coming soon - Page One Extra!

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:22:31 GMT

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