The Getting Published Event

All you know on earth and all you need to know

The Royal Overseas League, Picadilly, London
Saturday 2nd October 2010

You've written a manuscript. Perhaps you're just a few chapters in. Or perhaps you've already spent months revising, tweaking and polishing.

But what next?

You need to send your stuff to agents, of course ... but is there a market for your work? How can you tell if it's ready to send out? Are you even on the right track? And how do you find the right agents? And what do publishers even want? Is there any hope for new authors in an age of austerity?

The good news is that there IS a strong market for new work. The bad news is that the market is tough, competitive and hard to access.

We are hosting this day to tell you exactly what to do after writing your novel or non-fiction MS. We're bringing together agents, publishers and book doctors to give you a short, expert and truthful introduction to everything that you need to know - including whether your book passes muster.

Please browse this site for much more info about this amazing event. And if you have any questions, please contact us to learn much more. We look forward to welcoming you there.

Harry Bingham
MD, The Writers' Workshop
& author of The Writers' & Artists' Guide to Getting Published

Meet the agents

We've got a fabulous line up of senior agents to give you the truth about the market as they see it today.

Our keynote speaker will be Bill Hamilton, MD of AM Heath, one of London's oldest and most prestigious literary agencies. We're going to have independent literary agent, Jane Judd, talking about how to approach agents; actor and playwright, Miles Barden, on how to pitch your book face to face.

Meet the publishers

Our afternoon panels, bringing together agents, independent and mainstream publishers will give you a fabulous insight into what the trade wants and how you can deliver it.

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Venue, Bookings, Dates

The event will be held in the Royal Overseas League (located just behind London's Ritz Hotel) on Saturday 2 October, 2010.

The tickets are priced at £185, and will be sold first come, first served. The price includes lunch, refreshments, your book doctor session - and an invitation to the Getting Published launch party, which follows the main event at 6.00pm.

To book, please just fill out a few simple details to secure your place.

The Book Doctor will see you now

Everyone coming to the event is invited to submit their work to us in advance. We will arrange for one of our book doctors to review your work and spend 15 minutes with you 1-to-1, telling you whether your work is ready to send out - and if not how to fix it. You'll get robust written feedback to take away with you as well.

Even better, if one of our book doctors reckons that your work is ready to be seen by an agent, then we'll arrange for that too.

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Our Philosophy

Like everything we do at the Writers' Workshop, this event is run by writers for writers. We want to help you make your work wonderful - to do all we can to help you through towards publication. We've had plenty of clients become bestselling authors before now and we'd love to help you join their number.

The WW is run by Harry Bingham, author of five novels, 2 popular non-fiction books, and The WAYB Guide to Getting Published.

Having fun

Finally, we believe that writing and everything associated it should be a pleasure. We'll do all we can to keep the event fun and upbeat. If our Festival of Writing was anything to go by, this event will be useful - but also fun and a fabulous place to meet people and make friends. We very much hope so, and look forward to welcoming you there.

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Next event: March 2011 Bookings open: 15th Oct 2010 For info about the 2010 event, click here.		If you are interested in receiving information about the 2011 Festival of Writing, please submit your email address and we will add you to our mailing list.