Agenda
Chair: Jamie Hodder Williams
10:00 Introduction Jamie Hodder Williams
10:05 Keynote: Loyd Grossman, Historian and Author
10:15 The publishing ecosystem
- Understanding how publishing works, Seonaid Macleod, Hachette
10:45 The role of the literary agent, Maria Cardona Serra, Aevitas Creative
- Qualifications, skills and experience
- How a literary agent differs from a publisher or rights professional
- Why a writers need literary agents
- Editing/ shaping original work
11:10 Scouts: their place and role, Ros Ramsay, Scout
11:30 Break
11:40 In Conversation: making the relationships work, from an agent’s perspective
- Luigi Bonomi, LBA Agency with Richard Charkin, Mensch Publishing
12:10 Panel Discussion: Around the world with - or without - Agents
- Chair Jamie Hodder-Williams; Lora Fountain, Lora Fountain Agency, France; Beretta Mazzotta, Agenzia Editoriale, Italy; Urpu Strellman, Helsinki Literary Agency, Finland; Sorche Fairbank, Fairbank Literary Agency, USA; Katerina Fragou, Iris Literary Agency.
12:50 End
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