SPOTLIGHT FEATURE – Daisy Chandley from Peters, Fraser & Dunlop Good morning, everyone! This week, we’re joined by Daisy Chandley, an Associate Agent at Peters, Fraser & Dunlop. Daisy joined PFD in 2019 and has… Anna 8 August 2023 1 Comment
SPOTLIGHT FEATURE – Andrew James from Frog Literary Agency Good Morning! I’m excited to share an interview with the wonderful Andrew James, founder and agent of Frog Literary Agency. Andrew founded Frog Literary in… Kate 25 July 2023 0 Comments
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 1 Comment
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 3 Comments
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 0 Comments
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 5 Comments
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 0 Comments
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 0 Comments
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 0 Comments
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 0 Comments