Wednesday 16 January,The Friend’s Meeting House, The Oxford Quaker House, St Giles, at 7pm.
Author Adrian Magson and his agent David Headley will discuss all you every wanted to know about agents.
Adrian is the author of 13 crime/thriller novels and many short stories and articles. His latest novels are ‘Retribution’ (Severn House), 4th in the Harry Tate spy series, and ‘Death on the Pont Noir’ (Allison &Busby), 3rd in the Inspector Lucas Rocco series. A regular reviewer for Shots Magazine, he writes the ‘Beginners’ and ‘New Author’ pages for Writing Magazine, and is the author of ‘Write On! – The Writer’s Help Book’ (Accent Press). He is represented by David Headley at DHH Literary Agency.
Visit his website at http://www.adrianmagson.com/
David studied theology in London and Durham before co-founding and becoming the Managing Director of Goldsboro Books, a much admired independent bookseller, based in central London.
David has spent the last 14 years establishing Goldsboro Books and building good relationships with editors within the UK’s major publishing houses. He has gained a reputation for championing debut authors and he created the UK’s largest collectors’ book club and is influential in selling large quantities of hardback fiction in the UK.
David is actively looking for new writers across the board, both general and genre fiction (excluding young adult, children’s, poetry, plays, screenplays and short stories). David is particularly interested in well written novels with strong characters and an original narrative voice.
‘RETRIBUTION’ – the 4th Harry Tate thriller – out 27 September (Severn House) ‘Death on the Rive Nord’ – (Lucas Rocco 2) – Shortlisted in the CrimeFest E-Dunnit Award 2012 ‘Death on the Pont Noir’(Lucas Rocco 3) –Available now in h/b and ebook.
‘Write On! – The Writer’s Help Book’ – (non-fiction – Accent Press – paper & e-book)
I started The Oxford Editors in 2007 to help writers at every stage and in every genre. We have a strong academic tradition as well as working with writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We also help children's writers, playwrights, screen writers and business writers.
We offer a wide set of services for writers from mentoring, manuscript assessment, copy editing, proof reading, ghost writing, query letter writing, literary agent search, and much more. We will write your blog for you, perfect that speech or help you self-publish that book. If you write, our team of published authors, publishing industry experts and academics can help you.
My bio:
I am an award-winning writer and editor working on academic, non-fiction and fiction manuscripts. I regularly work with fiction and children’s writers as well as doctoral students. I have also edited books and papers for academics throughout the world, and for many authors at publishers including Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press and Yale University Press. I have also guided many writers of fiction to publishing success. I am an author, ghost writer and an international journalist. After the publication of my book, Unveiled: Love and Death Among the Ayatollahs, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei condemned me as ‘a notorious man-hater’ for the book’s strong attack on the violation of women’s rights in Iran.
I also work with writers as a mentor and I have guided authors of fiction, non-fiction and academic works. My latest book, a crime thriller, will be published soon.
I worked for many years at The Financial Times, The Independent and The Guardian and has been a regular contributor to The Economist. I have also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The South China Morning Post and many other newspapers and magazines worldwide. I have appeared on the BBC – including Radio 4’s the Today programme and on Newsnight.
I have edited several major academic studies, and also edited books by professors at Oxford and Harvard – among others. As well as writing fiction for adults and children. I have also written several screenplays.
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Just to remind everyone that the membership payments are due in December, so please bring along your £20.
Just to remind everyone that the membership payments are due in December, so please bring along your £20.
Sorry for all the post, my brain still not on full alert after Christmas.
Details for Wednesday updated