The next London Writers' Club event features Therese Coen agent at Hardman & Swainson, full details below:
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Come and meet Therese Coen,
agent at Hardman & Swainson
June 20, 6.30-8.30pm:
At: Adam
House (The Rehearsal Room), 7-10 Adam Street, The Strand WC2N
6AA
Book a ticket now, £15 in advance, £20 on the door.
Members come for free but let us know if you'd like to reserve a
place.
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Therese Coen, agent at
Hardman & Swainson
Part of The
Bookseller's 2017 Rising Stars
While heading up the
rights department at Madeleine Milburn, she orchestrated a number of
headline-grabbing deals, including selling C J Tudor's The Chalk Man
into 38 territories and Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely
Fine into 28. The Belgian emigrée didn't lose pace when she moved to
Hardman & Swainson in January to take up the newly created role of
rights director. Recent triumphs include increasing Sarah "The
Unmumsy Mum" Turner's international reach while notching up a raft
of deals for S R Mastrantone's The Killer You Know. Coen says the
opportunity to build an in-house foreign rights team was one of the
attractions of the Hardman & Swainson role, as was the chance to
agent in her own right. She recently sold Alex Bell's novel The Polar
Bear Explorers Club to Faber in a three-book pre-empt, and YA author
Christine Lehnen's Touch that Fire to Random House Germany for a
six-figure sum.
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Audible launches £10k writing
grant
Calling all unpublished
thriller/crime writers!
Audible has launched a £10,000
audio-exclusive writing grant for unpublished writers.
The Audible New Writing Grant:
The Crime Edition invites crime writers to submit an unpublished
thriller of 50,000 words or more to a panel including two-time
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year winner Mark
Billingham; CWA Dagger In The Library winner Sharon Bolton; The
Girl On The Train and The Widow narrator Clare Corbett,
the Daily Telegraph's crime critic Jake Kerridge and
Audible's director Of content Laurence Howell.
Free to enter, a shortlist of
three candidates will be announced in early 2018. Applicants will be
able to download a free copy of one of Audible's
"best-selling" crime novels, The Widow by Fiona
Barton (Bantam), during the first week of submissions, for a
"little extra inspiration".
The winning author will receive
a £10,000 advance, accountable against royalties, for an exclusive
Worldwide English language audio publication deal, as well as mentoring
from Audible's panel of judges. Read
more here.
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