goNORTH 2014 - PUBLISHING SESSIONS
GoNORTH 2014 is taking place on Wednesday 4th & Thursday 5th June in Inverness.
Emergents are very pleased to announce details of our Publishing sessions which are taking place as part of the programme of events.
The full programme will be announced very soon, please register on the goNORTH website:http://gonorthfestival.co.uk/
PUBLISHING SESSIONS
Meet The Nordics
12 noon – 1.30pm, Wednesday 4th June – Town House, Inverness
For publishers and writers with an interest in rights opportunities, Janne Moeller, Rights Manager of Black and White Publishing, will be joining the cross industry panel to discuss opportunities in the Nordic countries.
Janne Moller
Janne Moller is the rights manager at Edinburgh-based independent publishing house Black & White Publishing. She handles foreign rights sales, licensing and subsidiary rights.
She is Danish, born in Copenhagen 1971. She’s worked for Gyldendal Book Clubs 1995-1999, before moving to London to work as a literary agent at The Susijn Agency. In 2004, she moved to Edinburgh to run the writers’ retreat programme at Hawthornden Literary Institute, before taking up her current position as rights manager with Black & White Publishing.
Meet the Publishers – Saraband & Freight Books
3.00 – 4.30pm, Wednesday 4th June – Town House, Inverness
Vital insights into two of Scotland’s finest and award-winning independent publishing houses for writers, readers and all with a passion for Scottish books and new writing
Both Saraband and Freight Books have made a major and invigorating impact on Scotland’s publishing scene, with publishing lists that reflect creative vision, high quality production and sheer bravery in equal measure in the face of a changing and challenging book market and industry.
Sara Hunt
Sara Hunt is the founder and director of independent Glasgow-based publisher Saraband, inaugural winners (2013–14) of the Saltire Society Scottish Publisher of the Year award. She worked in publishing in London and New York before founding Saraband twenty years ago. Saraband has extensive international experience, an increasingly Scottish focus, and a growing portfolio of innovative digital projects. The list focuses on literary fiction, memoir and narrative non-fiction, particularly in nature and sustainability, whilst the new sister imprint Contraband is dedicated to crime, mystery and thrillers. Digital projects span the full range of formats, including the acclaimed Burns Night app, which went ‘viral’, and the new Scottish books discovery tool, the Bookspotting app.
Adrian Searle
Adrian Searle studied History at the University of Edinburgh and Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. He is a founding director of Freight Design, publisher at Freight Books and is founding co-editor of Gutter, Scotland’s leading literary magazine.
He has edited a number of anthologies of new writing including The Hope That Kills Us: An anthology of Scottish football fiction (Freight, 2002) and The Knuckle End: A meaty collection of new Scottish writing (Freight, 2004). He co-authored 101 Uses of a Dead Kindle (Freight, 2012) with the artist Judith Hastie, a BA top five Christmas Book of the Year 2012 and winner of two Scottish Design Awards 2013.
Adrian and Judith published If Dogs Could Swear in October 2013, currently nominated for a Scottish Design Award 2014, while Adrian also co-authored Look Up Glasgow with David Barbour in 2013, nominated for a Drum UK Design Award 2014. He is currently working on Look Up Edinburgh, to be published October 2014, and he is writing a novel.
Meet The Agent – SF, Fantasy & Horror with John Jarrold of the John Jarrold Literary Agency
4.30 – 6.00pm , Thursday 5th June – The Ironworks, 122b Academy Street, Inverness
When it comes to finding an agent as a writer working in SF, fantasy or horror genres, there is one name at the top of every writers list – John Jarrold. In this session, John will introduce the work of his agency and give crucial guidance on the market trends in his specialist area in genre fiction – a must-see for all SF, fantasy and horror fiction writers, and for those wanting key information on market trends.
John Jarrold has worked in book publishing since January 1988 following fifteen years working in public libraries – so books have ruled his professional life for forty years. As an editor and editorial director specialising in SF and Fantasy with Orbit at Macdonald Futura (the forerunner to Little Brown UK), Random House and Simon & Schuster between 1988 and 2002, he published bestselling novelists including Iain Banks, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, David Gemmell, Arthur C Clarke and Michael Moorcock, amongst many others. He also commissioned the very popular Lucifer Box novels from THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN’s Mark Gatiss, published bestselling thrillers by authors including John Sandford, Lorenzo Carcaterra and Stel Pavlou, and THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE by Gary Larson, Larson’s first UK hardback.
After leaving London publishing in August 2002, he worked as an editor with new and published writers, as well as with publishers as a freelance. And since 2004 he has run the John Jarrold Literary Agency, which specialises entirely in SF, Fantasy and Horror. He has around forty clients – and has turned down over 9,000 submissions to the agency. The agency had over 50 books released by major publishers in the UK and US in 2013, and many others in translation across the world. The agency has clinched multi-book deals for over 20 debut novelists.
Four clients won major awards in 2013. In alphabetical order:
- Chris Beckett, whose novel DARK EDEN won the Arthur C Clarke Award for best SF novel
- John Gwynne, whose novel MALICE won the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut Fantasy
- Adam Nevill, whose novel LAST DAYS won the British Fantasy Society’s August
- Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
- Ian Sales, whose novella ADRIFT ON THE SEA OF RAINS won the British SF Association Award for Short Fiction.
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If you have any queries about these events, please do get in touch with us on [email protected]
The Night Of Small Miracles #1
A new bi-monthly other wordly club night…
Thursday 28th November, 2013
Ironworks, Academy Street Inverness
Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £5 NUS/Concessions: £2
Emergents is very pleased to give advance notice of a new bi-monthly club night featuring performances from great writers and open mic slots for new writers (U25s) and musicians.
The Night of Small Miracles #1 features Stephen Fry’s poet of the moment Michael Pedersen, and the excellent novelist, poet and journalist Sophie Cooke.
Watch this space for booking details, and for details of two workshops on the same day.
To apply for an open mic slot see application page in our top menu.
NoSM#1 is also part of our celebrations of Book Week Scotland, more details to follow!
Creative Resilience: Dealing with Rejection and Criticism as a Creative Professional
A seminar with Mark McGuiness
Wednesday 6th November, 2013
HIE Cowan House, Inverness Retail & Business Park
10.30am-5pm - £20 includes lunch and refreshments
Anyone wishing to succeed in a creative career or business will need to learn to deal with rejection and criticism in different forms, and Emergents is delighted to announce a new and important day-long workshop aimed at building the resilience of creative professionals in the Highlands and Islands - it’s easy to say ‘don’t take it personally’ - but not so easy when you put your heart and creative soul into your work!
Lead by leading coach Mark McGuiness (pictured) , the workshop - Creative Resilience: Dealing with Rejection and Criticism as a Creative Professional - will cover issues including:
- Rejection of your work by clients, prospects and gatekeepers
- Feedback from clients and customers - some of it brutal!
- ‘Constructive criticism’ from mentors, critics and peers
- Carping from competitors
- Disappointing sales when you bring your work to market
In this practical workshop, poet and creative business coach Mark McGuinness will teach:
- Why rejection and criticism hurt so much
- Several ways you may be making rejection worse (without realising it)
- Why your inner critic is (potentially) your best friend - and how to get it on your side
- When to ignore the critics - and when to listen
- How to deal with destructive feedback
- Whether you are subconsciously holding yourself back from success - and what to do about it.
Mark has been coaching writers, artists, creatives and entrepreneurs since 1996, helping them create more, suffer less and attract more opportunities. He writes the popular blog for creatives Lateral Action.
The workshop takes place on Wednesday 6th November 2013 (10am-5.30pm) at HIE’s HQ, Cowan House, Inverness Business and Retail Park.
Tickets are £20 to include lunch and refreshments.
Attendees will also receive a copy of Mark’s book (as an ebook) Resilience: Facing Down Rejection and Criticism on the Road to Success is an Amazon Creativity Best Seller, and he is a co-author of the Amazon.com No.3 Best Seller Manage Your Day to Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind.
Booking is essential and can be made at:
http://creativeresilience.eventbrite.co.uk/
Financial assistance with travel and accommodation costs may be available for those wishing to attend who are currently living on Scotland’s islands - please e-mail [email protected] for further details.
How To Market A Book
A seminar with Joanna Penn for fiction & non-fiction authors
Saturday 30th November, 2013
Caledonian Suite, Mercure Hotel,
Church Street, Inverness
10.30am-5pm - £20 includes lunch and refreshments
The first job of an author is, of course, to write great books, but these days, their second job is to market them.
This full-day seminar is for authors who want to sell more books, but it’s also for those writers who want to think more like an entrepreneur. It’s for traditionally published authors who want to take control of their future, and for self-published authors who want to jump-start a career.
We’ll be covering:
- Marketing Principles and Prerequisites - exploring your definition of success, balancing your time, generosity and co-opetition
- Your Book Fundamentals - covering editing, cover design, knowing your target market as well as your book page on the retail websites, pricing and sampling
- No Platform Needed: Short Term Marketing - book reviews, paid advertising and traditional media
- Your Platform: Long Term Marketing - branding, your author website, list management, content marketing with text, audio and video, plus social networking and professional speaking
- Tips for launching your book and where to get started, as well as Q&A
Joanna Penn is the author of ‘Career Change’ and the #1 bestseller ‘How To Market A Book’. She also writes the bestselling ARKANE thrillers under J.F.Penn. Joanna’s site for writers www.TheCreativePenn.com has been voted one of the Top 10 Blogs for writers 3 years running and offers articles, audio and video on writing, publishing and book marketing. Connect with Joanna on twitter @thecreativepenn
Booking - all places must be booked in advance, places are limited.
To book a place please visit:
https://marketabook.eventbrite.co.uk/
Please note - a payment by paypal option will be added in the next few days - currently we are accepting debit and credit cards bookings, which might carry a fee.
Assistance with travel costs may be available - please contact Peter Urpeth for further information:
[email protected]