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What a great opportunity and honour to chat to John Rakestraw on The Platform … - audio quality is a little difficult to hear sometimes but stick with it for a few gems [...] Well who’d have thought it – I’ve just turned 87 years young and blow me down, I’ve become a published author – watch this video to find out how !! My book has been on my own slush pile for more years than I can remember and then I met my literary agent Tom [...] Today I have to pinch myself and remind myself what has just happened over the last few short months as the first copies of my book have just arrived !!! So I meet Tom Evans at a wedding in June. In July, based on one sample chapter, Tom got me a publishing deal with MX [...] No sooner than the third draft has appeared than I’ve seen what the book will look like on an iPad and the Kindle … am I glad I met Tom and he’s introduced me to Steve Emecz of MX Publishing … … do we have to wait so long before I get a print [...] I’ve just spent a wonderful day with my literary agent, Tom Evans, who also turns out to be an amazing whizz at all things technical. I was also accompanied by my wonderful illustrator and artist, PM Rose, and the three of us constructed my new book right in front of my eyes on Tom’s super [...] Yesterday was one of the most memorable and momentus days in my career – and as you can see from my Making Stories blogs, there have been a few. My literary agent, Tom Evans aka the Bookwright, introduced me to to Steve Emecz, my new publisher. Apart from a splendid lunch at ‘the Club’, [...] The story about how I got a publishing deal within less than a month is one that needs telling. I’d written three books already virtually in entirety and had assumed, like many writers, that no publisher would be interested (I’d approached a few speculatively already). I was at a social function recently and was lucky [...] |
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