Synaesthezia – an arts blog

Sue Brockhoff (Publishing & Communications Manager) and Kate Cuthbert (Escape Publishing) Escape is looking for digital first fiction fiction across all genres 5,000 – 250,000 words particularly looking for science fiction, fantasy, intrigue, rural romance new genre of ‘rom-magic comedy’ eg I Dream of Johnny about to publish first gay romance Harlequin looking to start […]

Jennifer Kloester – Waves of Muslin: Bringing the Regency to Life Georgette Heyer: 1902 – 1974 40 years since she died, yet sold over 1 million books last year in the UK alone Heyer was incredibly private.  Never gave an interview, never did a book signing, only signed a few books for friends. The Heyer […]

Julia Quinn – Evoking the scene:  effective dialogue for writers Dialogue affects every asplect of your manuscript from voice to characterisation, pacing to point of view Dialogue has two parts:  how you speak and what you say – We are not writing screenplays, we are writing novels – Placement of tag lines can depict who […]

Juliet Marillier – The Selkie Song Elemental lore and creatures In folklore and mythology, each element – earth, air, fire, water- has its share of uncanny beings. Elements in a subsistence culture People were dependent on the elements for survival – flood, fire, landslide or storm could wipe out a settlement, sink a fishing fleet, destroy […]

Alex Adsett (moderator), Abby Zidle (Simon & Schuster NY), Nina Bruhns (Entangled Publishing), Sheila Hudgson (Harlequin Mulls & Boon London), Bernadette Foley (Hachette Publishing), Kate Cuthbert (Escape Publishing), Alisa Krasnostein (Twelth Planet Press) Kate:  Escape – Harlequin’s digital first imprint.  Looking for riskier titles, niche titles, cross genre, also traditional romance.  Submit via website, agented […]

Margaret Marbury (Vice President, Harlequin Single Title – HQN, Mira, Luna) and Sheila Hodgson (HMB London) – signed more than 40 new series authors this year – global writing contest ‘so you think you can write’ – Think Support – start to finish support – end to end career support – last year launched Harlequin […]

Julia Quinn gave the opening keynote address. Dream:  to be an organised person – some people can live in glorious chaos and yet put their hands on everything instantly.  She is not one of those people. – when she loses something, is forced to clean in order to find it – having a ‘To Do’ […]