Julia Churchill – Getting Published in Children’s Books

Oct. 15 Farley Room, The Electric Theatre • 3pm-4.30pm • £6  Make a booking here

Are you writing a children’s book? Do you want to get published? Literary agent Julia Churchill will offer those all important tips and advice on getting your book published.

Julia began her career in books in the Press office of Sheldrake Press and in 2002 she started work at the Darley Anderson Literary Agency. Here Julia built up the agency’s prestigious children’s books list, finding and selling début authors who went onto international success.

Julia joined The Greenhouse Literary Agency in 2009. The Greenhouse exclusively represents and manages the careers of authors writing fiction for children, from young chapter-book series, through middle-grade novels to sophisticated teen fiction. She regularly attends British writers’ events and is on the lookout for both new and established authors with storytelling magic.

Caroline Taggart – The Three Whys of Non-Fiction

Oct. 20 Farley Room, The Electric Theatre • 3pm-4.30pm • £10 Make a booking here

When pitching a non-fiction idea you have to answer three questions: why this book, why me and why now? In a crowded market, what are you going to do that is different from anyone else? Why are you qualified to write on this subject? And why should it be published this year or next year, rather than sometime or never?

We’ll be looking for answers to these questions, as well as what to put in a covering letter, how to prepare a synopsis and the importance of that vital first sentence. Please bring a rough outline – or at least an idea in your head – of a nonfiction book you’re longing to write and be prepared to participate in informal group discussion.

Caroline Taggart is the editor of Writer’s Market UK and Ireland: your guide to making money from your writing and the author of the bestselling I Used to Know That and My Grammar and I (or should that be ‘Me’?).

Irma Kurtz – About Time: Growing Old Disgracefully

Oct. 21 The Electric Theatre • 12.30pm • £7 • £6 (Friends of GBF, concessions) Make a booking here

Cosmopolitan’s first Agony Aunt, broadcaster and journalist Irma Kurtz explores old age as if it were another planet. This fearless investigator of the art of growing old – its pleasures and its griefs – carries with her the only tool that sharpens with age: lifelong curiosity. She relates her own and others’ experiences to Elizabeth Buchan.

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