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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’ experience working on commercial fiction bestsellers. She has worked at three of the big five UK publishing houses and most...
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...
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...

Ask an Agent: Samantha Brace from Peters Fraser + Dunlop

Monday, January 16, 2023

Sam Brace is an Agent building a list of crime and reading group fiction. Alongside working on her own list, Sam looks after podcasts for Peters Fraser + Dunlop. At PFD’s digital-first imprint Agora Books, Sam launched the Lost the Plot Writers Competition as...

Ask an Agent: John Baker from Bell Lomax Moreton

Thursday, June 23, 2022

John Baker joined Bell Lomax Moreton in 2019 where, as a junior agent, he is focusing on building his own small, cultivated list, shaped around his passion for Science Fiction and Fantasy, alongside providing administrative support across the agency. John has built a...