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These days it not only is impossible for a manuscript to be picked from a slush pile at a publishers any more, it is now virtually impossible with an agent as well! CRIMEFEST is offering unpublished writers two ways to beat the odds. - CRIME WRITING WORKSHOP
CRIME WRITING WORKSHOP The workshop includes the opportunity for up to twenty-five aspiring crime novelists to sign up for a fifteen minute one-on-one assessment of a manuscript. (Crime writer Janet Laurence will be in charge of the assessments.) The seminar will take place on Thursday afternoon, 30 May, 13:30 – 16:00. Assessments will be scheduled during Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning. Assessment participants will be required to submit the first 3,000 words of their manuscript, together with a brief synopsis of no more than 1,500 words by 30 April 2013. All the one-on-one assessments slots have previously sold out, so BUY TICKETS early to avoid disappointment. The crime writing workshop does not require participants to register for CRIMEFEST. However, workshop participants will be offered a 25% discount when signing up for a full weekend pass as well. (Delegates who have already registered for a full weekend pass and who wish to attend the seminar should sign up and then contact CRIMEFEST for a refund.) Cost of the crime writing seminar, including refreshments during the break, is £100. TUTORS
PITCH AN AGENT There are only a limited number of places, and the registration fee for a place is £35. PITCH AN AGENT is only open to delegates who have not previously participated, are not commercially published, are without an agent and who have registered for a Day or Full CRIMEFEST Pass. (Unless the buyer also signs up for a Day or Full CRIMEFEST Pass, a £10 refund fee will be charged for incorrect bookings.) Participants will be required to submit the first 3,000 words of their manuscript, together with a brief synopsis (of up to 1,500 words) by 20 April 2012. All the PITCH AN AGENT slots have previously sold out, so BUY TICKETS early to avoid disappointment. THE AGENTS "There are agents. There are good agents. There are super agents. And then there's Darley Anderson." —Lee Child Broo Doherty, of Wade & Doherty Literary Agency, has worked in publishing for the last twenty years and has had a variety of different roles throughout the industry. She started as a production assistant at Victor Gollancz and moved to Hodder & Stoughton for a brief period before joining Transworld as an editor for the Bantam Press imprint where she was involved with authors such as David Gemmell, Anthony Holden and Jilly Cooper. Then she joined a literary agency as the editorial director before setting up Wade and Doherty almost five years ago. Broo handles all genres, excluding children's books and science fiction, but focuses her attention on crime, commercial women's fiction, literary fiction and quirky non-fiction. David Headley is the Managing Director of DHH Literary Agency. He studied theology in London and Durham before creating Goldsboro Books, an independent bookseller in London. He spent 10 years developing the company and building many contacts in all of the UK's publishing houses. He created the UK's largest collectors' book club and is influential in selling large amounts of hardback fiction in the UK. In 2008 David created DHH Literary—a new agency that enables him to concentrate on discovering new talent in fiction writing. He is only looking to represent fiction writers currently. In his spare time he reads for pleasure as well as travelling all over Europe visiting cities. He likes different, quirky and something that may challenge. |
