Charlie Farrow
Jul24

Charlie Farrow

Charlie Farrow is HNSLondo14 Coference Co-ordinator and Webmaster. She was amongst the first cohort of marketers in the UK to be awarded Chartered status. She has worked with big brands and small businesses, both agency and client-side. She currently specialises in helping writers bring their work to market, providing a full range of literary, technical and marketing services – editing, cover art, e-book production, marketing...

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Lisa Eveleigh
Jul19

Lisa Eveleigh

Lisa Eveleigh founded the Richford Becklow Agency in 2012, and is the primary agent,working with specialist sub-agents where relevant. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Durham and also studied American literature for two years. After graduating, Lisa worked at the BBC, and her publishing career took off in 1986, when she joined A P Watt Ltd, the world’s oldest literary agency. Authors she worked with...

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Jon Watt
Jul19

Jon Watt

Jon is an editor at Heron Books. He has over a decade of publishing and editing experience and has worked with authors like Michael Morpurgo, Bernard Cornwell and Boris Johnson. At Heron Books he’s looking to work with a range of raw ideas and story-telling talent, in both commercial fiction and non-fiction. ‘I’m very keen to develop ideas and stories which capture the imagination, whether from experienced writers or new talent. I...

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Susan Watt
Jul19

Susan Watt

Susan Watt is currently Publisher at Heron Books. She has worked at a number of publishers and with authors who include; Vanora Bennett, Tracy Chevalier, Bernard Cornwell, Gavin Esler, Katie Fforde, Amitav Ghosh, Conn Iggulden, Boris Johnson, Adam Nicolson, Jeremy Paxman and Rosie Thomas. ‘I find it fascinating how writers by looking at the past can allow us to understand the present and how often observing the way characters,...

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Simon Taylor
Jul19

Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor is an Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers, part of the Random House Group. Like so many others of his generation, his life-long passion for historical fiction began with the likes of Rosemary Sutcliff, Henry Treece and Geoffrey Trease, and he knows he is exceedingly lucky to be able to publish the sort of fiction he adores as a reader, namely novels by such fantastic storytellers as Giles Kristian, Steven...

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Ian Skillicorn
Jul19

Ian Skillicorn

Ian’s publishing imprint, Corazon Books, has published ten titles, with more to come later this year. Recent successes on Amazon include a Top Ten Kindle bestseller, a #1 in the Women Writers and Fiction chart, a #2 in the Medical Fiction chart, and Top Tens in the Romantic Comedy and Short Story charts. This year selected titles will also be available in print. Ian also runs ebook workshops for authors, and is a regular speaker...

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