I have been AWOL from this excellent site for far too long. I did an event at the Humber Mouth Festival on Monday and one of ther audience reminded me what a great community this is so I AM BACK!. Thoughts you would find the articles I have posted on my blog of use. Here is a [url=]link

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I have been AWOL from this excellent site for far too long. I did an event at the Humber Mouth Festival on Monday and one of ther audience reminded me what a great community this is so I AM BACK!. Thoughts you would find the articles I have posted on my blog of use.CLICK HERE

Nice to see you back, Simon.

Emma

Oh wow, a real live agent, I'll have to mind my p's and q's from now on.

Thanks for the link. I particularly enjoyed the link to the interview with John Boyne who I'd been hoping to see at Aye Write in Glasgow. A wonderful writer.

Welcome back to this fabulous community.

Yes, great to see you here, Simon.

Nik.

I'll have to mind my p's and q's from now on.

Me, too.

Hi, Simon. We met a few years ago at Totleigh Barton in 2003. You won't remember me (I hope - I was drunk), but great to see you here. Your advice back then was grand.

Welcome back to the site, Simon.
So are you offering Help and Advice or would you like some?

Great to see you back, Simon, thanks for the link.

Casey

Oh thanks, Casey, I understand now. I zapped over the link.

Whoa - I've just submitted to PFD. Maybe you could pick up my envelope - it should have dropped through the door yesterday

The Dead Hand of Safe Bets is an interesting article. I agree that the role of the editor needs to be revived. I was on an agency's site the other day and they reccommended, because competition is fierce, that you don't submit to them unless your work has been seen by an editor or put through an editorial agency.

Is this the way of the future, i wonder?

Casey

Great to see you back on the site, Simon.

Dee

Hi Simon

We've met but you won't remember me (I was drunk - or at least a bit squiffy - too!!) at Deborah Wright's book launch.

Agree that this is a fab site - having a mixture of published and yet-to-be-published authors makes it excellent for advice that's both grounded and inspirational. Am going to link my website to it and give it plugs at the talks I'm giving at Writers' Festivals.

all best

Maria
www.mariamccarthy.co.uk

Nice picture. I'll read the article later. S

Simon, I very much enjoyed your ‘secret agent’ articles, lots of good advice for unpublished writers. However I was most interested by the article you wrote for ‘The Bookseller’ in 2004, in which you discuss how the industry has shifted from editorially led to sales led. Since writing this article, do you think the situation has improved or worsened? A recent article in The Times (Monday), which describes how booksellers demand huge payments from publishers to promote books, suggests a worsening of the situation, but I would be interested in your view as an ‘insider’.

Your article concludes with the insistence that editors should be reinstated to the position of integrity and power they once held, but how do you envisage this change occurring and from where? It is a grand idea, but is it really possible to return to this position, and if not, what is the way forward?

Juliet

Good to see you back, Simon

Sarah