Category: Agents & publishing

The First 500

The opening chunk of your book can do a LOT. I once sold a non-fiction book off the back of no more than 10,000 words.…

Harry 21 July 2023

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All their pretty white decapitated heads

We’ve been talking a lot about marketing:  I also said that I would “show you some snippets of how the book itself lines up behind…

Harry 14 July 2023

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A vase hidden beneath velvet

This email completes a messy quartet of emails around selling books. If you’ve missed them (and – what? – you’ve missed them? YOU DON’T READ MY STUFF???),…

Harry 13 July 2023

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This email is disorganised and badly planned

This email is, I guess, the third in a set of missives about marketing. (Here’s the first one, here’s the second.) If I were more…

Harry 30 June 2023

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE – Clara Foster from Aevitas Creative Management UK

Good morning, everyone! This week, we’re joined by Clara Foster, who has recently joined Aevitas Creative Management UK after 18 months as an agency assistant…

Anna 27 June 2023

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How to Market Your Books II, the Sequel

A couple of weeks back, I wrote a piece on marketing your books. The gist of that email was that you needed to generate meaningful…

Harry 23 June 2023

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Gifts of commitment 

It’s hot here. There’s an outdoor pool near me and I was there the other day with a load of people stretched out on sun…

Harry 16 June 2023

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The single best way to market books

The hardest thing in our game: writing a decent book. The second hardest thing: marketing it. Big publishers, you might think, have cracked the second…

Harry 12 June 2023

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Exit Music

I just realised that I write quite often about beginning a novel, and not all that often about ending it.  And yes: beginnings are important.…

Harry 2 June 2023

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE – Helen Lane from The Booker Albert Literary Agency

Good morning, everyone! In this week’s Spotlight On, we’re joined by Helen Lane, a Junior Agent at The Booker Albert Literary Agency. In addition to…

Anna 30 May 2023

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