With full details of the London Writer's Club 16 June 2020 event:
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June's
speaker announced
May's event with agent, Stevie Finegan was brilliant -
lots of wonderful insight into genre writing and the Zeno Agency. Our
June speaker will be Sara O'Keefe of Aevitas Creative
Management.
Sara O' Keeffe has 20 years' publishing experience. She
began her career at Book Club Associates, before moving to the Orion
Publishing Group, where she was a Senior Commissioning Editor. She
then spent eight years as Editorial and then Publishing Director of
the Corvus commercial fiction imprint of Atlantic Books and also sat
on the Atlantic Books Limited Board of Directors. Sara has worked
with a host of major brand names in fiction, from crime writer
Minette Walters to bestselling author Elizabeth Buchan; Roman epic
series writer Robert Fabbri and award-winning science fiction writer
Chris Beckett. She was the UK editor for Kevin Kwan's international
bestseller, Crazy Rich Asians along with Robert Ludlum's
'Bourne' series. She acquired and published the cult
bestseller Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, which spent
six weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
Sarah O'Keefe represents literary and commercial
fiction, along with some middle-grade and YA fiction.
When: June 16, 6-7pm
Details
to follow.
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Work on your antagonist
Hitchcock said: 'The more successful the villain, the more successful
the picture'. So here's a key #antagonist writing tip from
John Yorke's bestselling book,
Into the Woods. . .
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Agent, Stevie Finegan's top
tips for editing
1/Change the font when you edit
2/Share with others
3/Read aloud
4/Put it aside - coming to it afresh will help you
greatly
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Write a
bestseller in 2020
Fiction and
non-fiction masterclasses starting online
Jacq Burns, Write a Besteller author and co-founder of
LWC walks you through your pitch step-by-step in 2 half-day
masterclasses. This is a group masterclass.
Online workshops. Sign up for the fiction or non-fiction
classes.
* If you would prefer to work over four months in a
small group of and have one-to-one feedback, support and an
introduction to an agent when you graduate, then check out the
Fiction and Non-fiction Mentorships.
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Upcoming
events with LWC
Until further notice all event will go ahead
online.
For Members and ticket holders:
June 16: Sara O'Keefe of Aevitas Creative
Management
July: Kate Evans of PFD Agency
August: LWC are on holiday
September 22: Fiona Baird from WME Agency
October
27: Emily MacDonald of 42 Agency
November: speaker to be announced
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