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Craft Meets Commerce: What Publishers Want Writers to Know

Craft Meets Commerce: What Publishers Want Writers to Know

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Craft Meets Commerce: What Publishers Want Writers to Know Samantha Eades is an award-winning publisher, editor, and publicist with 20 years of experience shaping commercial fiction bestsellers. She has held senior roles at three of the Big Five UK publishing houses...
Q & A Liza DeBlock – RECORDING

Q & A Liza DeBlock – RECORDING

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Agent Q & A - Recording Get the inside track on submitting to agents. Recording of an exclusive live Q&A with Liza DeBlock of Greenstone Literary Agency, our 2025 Pitch Prize agent judge. Liza reveals exactly what catches an agent’s eye—and what sends a submission...
Pitch Perfect – RECORDING

Pitch Perfect – RECORDING

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Pitch Perfect - Recording It’s not only agents and editors who judge a book by the first page: in an industry driven by ‘Look Inside the Book’, the opening of a novel or memoir is one of the keys which draws a reader in irresistibly – or lets them wander off. Before...
Q & A with agents – RECORDING

Q & A with agents – RECORDING

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Agent Q & A  Recording of live event Get the inside track on submitting to agents. Our agent judges for the First Novel Award answer your questions live. Hellie and Suzy will outline what they are looking for as well as giving you lots of tips and do’s and...