Episodes
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What Is the Publishing Process?
With Emma Beswetherick, editorial director at Little, Brown; publicist Maura Brickell, agent Jenny Brown and novelist Carolyn Jess-Cooke. Between them, the four speakers on this panel have experience of pretty much every aspect of publishing, from submissions, to representing an author, to…
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Submitting Your Work at Its Best
Olivia Chapman of New Writing North talks about the benefits and support that in-depth editorial critique of your writing can bring, and explains how to work on your manuscript to get it to the best possible standard before submitting it to agents and editors. This event was part of Get Your Work...
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Networking: A Vital Skill to Enhance Your Writing Career
With Caroline Theobald of The Bridge Club North. Caroline runs networking sessions with people and businesses from all industries, and takes you through the best way to represent yourself and your work, and get the most out of any networking opportunities you may have. This event was part of Get...
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Demystifying Literary Agents
With Jenny Brown, agent and director of Jenny Brown Associates. Jenny Brown set up her literary agency in Edinburgh in 2002 and can draw on her extensive experience of literature and the publishing industry to explain what agents do, and how they can make a vital difference to a writer’s career....
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Ebooks and DIY Publishing
When he’s not being an agent at Jenny Brown Associates, Allan Guthrie is a crime novelist who won the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year in 2007 for his debut, Two-Way Split, and has been nominated for several awards, including an Edgar in the US. In the last year, he's also sold around 50,000...
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Richard Dawkins at Durham Book Festival 2011
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an...
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Jon Ronson at Durham Book Festival 2011
Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test tells a story about madness. It all starts when a leading neurologist contacts him. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail, and Jon is challenged to solve the mystery behind it. As he searches for the answer, Jon...
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Marcus Brigstocke at Durham Book Festival 2011
The sudden and tragic loss of his best friend James, who was in his thirties, changed the way that Marcus Brigstocke felt about the world. It didn’t stop him being an atheist – if anything it increased his suspicion that we are, in fact, alone in the universe. But it did make him think. Who could...
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Lucy Worsley at Durham Book Festival 2011
Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions are answered in Lucy Worsley’s If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home, which looks at how people really lived through...
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Criminal Women: Sally Wainwright, Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid at Durham Book Festival 2011
From Vera to Scott and Bailey, women detectives have been taking over our TV screens this year. On Saturday 22 October at Durham Book Festival, screenwriter Sally Wainwright (Scott and Bailey) and her series co-creator former Detective Inspector Diane Taylor, novelist Ann Cleeves, whose books…
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Iain M Banks: The Sage Gateshead, Saturday 11 June 2011
Legendary sci-fi writer Iain M Banks came to The Sage Gateshead to introduce the latest novel in his best-selling Culture series: Surface Detail. An acclaimed and best-selling writer of both mainstream fiction (as Iain Banks) and science-fiction (as Iain M Banks), Iain talked to Durham…
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