#AuthorDay – ask-the-agents

Friday 3-5 p.m. GMT live on Twitter, hashtag #AuthorDay

The Author Day conference on 30th November at 30 Euston Square in London has become a double-barreled event, thanks to the generosity and cooperation of several key supporters of the effort.

Our central issues-driven discussion at the core of the conference will be ringed with one-on-one meetings with:

• Editors from Pan Macmillan (Caroline Hogg and Sophie Jonathan) holding open-submissions and consultations;
• Editorial staff from HarperCollins holding open submissions and consultations;
• Agents from Peters Fraser + Dunlop (PFD), who will meet with authors for questions and guidance; and
• Thanks to special support from the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), experts on independent publishing for one-on-one counseling—more to come on that shortly.

While those personal meetings at Author Day are reserved for those who are registered and attending the conference, Friday’s online Twitter conversations with the PFD agents are open to all.

Lead agent Robert Caskie will also join us on a special panel at the FutureBook Conference on 4th December at London’s Mermaid, on the new centricity of the author.

He and I will welcome to that panel Simon & Schuster/Atria publisher Judith Curr, Headline author Simon Scarrow, and September Publishing’s Hannah MacDonald.

Peters Fraser + Dunlop has very recently opened a publishing wing, Ipso Books. There, the company writes about the Author Day conference: “This is an exciting opportunity for authors to get face-to-face feedback on their unpublished manuscripts from those in the know. The publishing and literary industry is a tough nut to crack, so take advantage of this opportunity and pick the brains of the industry’s finest.”

And in today and Friday’s sessions, all are invited to join in with questions and comments for Caskie and his associates.

Partcipating agents include Caskie (@RCaskie1), Marilia Savvides (@MariliaSavvides), Adam Gauntlett (@albionieye), Nelle Andrew, and Laura Williams (@LauraBirdland).

There’s more: Read on

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By Porter Ander­son  Follow @Porter_Anderson

The Bookseller: #AuthorDay – Ask the Agents

Read the full post at: TheBookseller.com/FutureBook

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AND don’t forget to register for Author Day, 30th November in London at 30 Euston Square

Visit our Author Day site here.

Our full programme is here.

Our terrific team of speakers is here. 

Directions to 30 Euston Square are here.

And info on our superb sister conference. The FutureBook 2015 

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