Ask The Agent – Alice Saunders
Alice Saunders worked in the rights department at Quadrille Publishing before joining Lucas Alexander Whitley (LAW) as an assistant to Mark Lucas in 2001. She became an agent in 2011, …
Writing Magazine
The New Cost of Going Wide
On 14th May 2026, Draft2Digital introduced new fees for self-published authors using their service. Before they introduced these fees, the only cost to authors was a 10% cost based on …
Switching Genres
JK Rowling did it. Michael Crichton did it. And Ruth Rendell did it too. Now, I’m considering following in their footsteps as well. There are many reasons why a writer …
Ask The Agent: Sarah Brooks
Simon Whaley chats to Sarah Brooks of the Darley Anderson agency about the resurgence in Regency romance. Sarah Brooks began her publishing career in 2010 as a rights assistant at …
Changing Agents
It’s all part of the dream, isn’t it? Write a book, secure a literary agent, get a publishing contract, and then retire on the proceeds. But that second bit, securing …
Audio First
The audio market is booming and set to grow further. Simon Whaley chats to two writers about how writing for audio can improve our writing generally. Kerboom! Did you hear …
Ask The Agent – Jodie Hodges
Simon Whaley chats to Jodie Hodges of United Agents about writing for the graphic and comic book market. Jodie Hodges joined the Peter Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) agency in 2006 …
Write Streaming
One of the many things I enjoy most about being a writer is shutting myself away from the world when I write. But perhaps that’s because there’s nobody to watch …
Permission Procedures
Every time we put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, our words are automatically protected by copyright. This means that nobody else should use our work without our permission, …
Ask The Agent – Francesca Riccardi
Simon Whaley chats to Francesca Riccardi at the Kate Nash Literary Agency about High Concept Zeitgeist Crime Thrillers. Francesca Riccardi’s journey into the publishing industry began at the RNIB, transcribing …