Free LWC workshop, 6pm 1 June 2022

 Register to get your free ticket even if you can't be there live:

London Writers' Club Helping writers get published

Hi there, Wouldn't it be wonderful if we authors could spend our time writing our books and then have people rush to buy them without us doing any marketing? Sadly, this does not happen no matter how wonderful your book is. Even if you have a book deal with a major publisher they will expect you to do your own marketing as well.  In fact, for non-fiction books, they will only give you a book deal if you can show you have a marketing plan in place beforehand. The good news is there is a lot you can do yourself to get book sales, whether you're a novelist or non-fiction writer, self-publishing or have a publishing deal. So I am getting together with John Williams, one of the fantastic authors who I represent, to run a free online class on how to create a marketing plan for your book that could well make it a bestseller (See this page: https://screwwork.lpages.co/bestsellermarketing-lwc/) John has written & marketed 3 bestselling books, now translated into 10 languages. His book F**k Work Let's Play: Do what you love and get paid for it was featured in the Sunday Times the week it came out thanks to some quick thinking on John's part (he'll tell the story in the class). John is also an expert in online marketing and has created a bestseller book marketing plan document that he will give to you as part of the workshop. In the workshop John will show you exactly how to fill it in including: How to choose a title that helps get your book noticed How to win press & media attention How to use use social media to generate book sales How to build an email list of fans eager to buy your next book How to hit #1 on Amazon the week of release John's main focus is non-fiction books but much of what he's sharing will be relevant to fiction authors too. I will also bring my experience of what I've seen work with my clients to generate press attention, online buzz and book sales. We are both judges on the Business Book Awards and of course entering and winning awards can be an amazing boost to book sales. (pic of us in our Award-night finery above) We'll also do some Q&A at the end. The workshop is at 6pm on Wednesday 1 June. If you can't make it register anyway and you'll be sent the recording immediately afterwards. Do come along live if you can though because you'll be able to interact with us and ask your questions. It's all free of charge but you DO need to register in advance: https://screwwork.lpages.co/bestsellermarketing-lwc/ Hope to see you there.

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Comedy Club at Bradford Playhouse, 7.30pm 31 May 2022

With details of the comedy club night: 

Fancy a reyt good Laugh? Join us tomorrow night! compered by Silky and starring some of the brightest and best comedians in the UK. Nick Page (Britain's Got Talent) Nick Page is a seemingly indestructible, larger than life, award winning English comic whose life is a series of disasters somehow turning into unlikely triumphs. ' Roguish, bear-like, and with a host of tales about love, life, and brushes with the law' Guardian ' funny, cathartic, and very entertaining' Broadway Baby ' a joy to behold' The Skinny Jamie MacDonald (Star of BBC2's Blind Ambition & BBC R4's Life On The Blink) Jamie Maconald has TV and Radio credits aplenty with his own BBC Radio 4 series, Life On The Blink, his BBC Sounds comedy special, Blind-sided, and BBC Two’s Blind Ambition which he co-presents. ‘Not afraid to milk his disability’ Broadway Baby ‘Consistently hilarious’ Ed Fest Magazine ‘One of the funniest Scots on the circuit’ Sunday Herald Final acts TBC Book Now… Copyright (C) 2022 The Bradford Playhouse. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: The Bradford Playhouse 4 - 12 Chapel Street Little Germany Bradford, Brd BD1 5DL United Kingdom

Cleckheaton Writers Group minutes, Meeting 23 May 2022

Cleckheaton Writers Group (CWG) met last Monday night with Alice, Barbara, Cassie, Gemma, Karen and Kathy in attendance.

The minutes from the last meeting were passed.

WIP updates: Karen has edited six chapters of her crime MS and submitted a poem and a short story into the Creative Future  Awards. Alice has entered the Write Mentor Novel in Development Award and been planning and starting a new picture book. Gemma has written a workshop on the five senses and been on a tour of Stanley Royd Asylum in Wakefield next to Pinderfields Hospital. She was also given a USB stick of a short film depicting the asylum before it was demolished. Barbara has submitted her short story to Autocrit. She titled it 'Paula is good with her hands.' Kathy wishes to kick-start writing/editing again following a holiday. Cassie is still on with her novel which she editing following feedback and then shared with her U3A group.

CW comps/workshops/events: The Bath Novel Award closes 31 May 2022 and on 6 June Guppy opens for children's submissions until 10 June 2022.

Feedback session: There was not time.

Writing plans: Gemma will continue editing and research. Alice will continue her new picture book and edit Project Nightmare with a different narrative voice. Karen will continue editing her crime MS and C.E. enter the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award. Cassie will forge forward on her MS. Kathy will do more work on her Tobias MS. Barbara will have a go at the Jubilee writing challenge and she shared with CWG members a coronation souvenir, a butter knife from 2 June 1952 in its original box. She also has a copy of A Christmas Carol from the 1920s with no date on the edition.

The  next meeting will take place on Monday 6 June 2022.

Things to do to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee

 With thanks to Country and Townhouse:

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