Category: Past Meetings

  Laura Northedge – Woman’s Hour (fiction): Laura Northedge covers fiction for Woman’s Hour What they’re looking for – if they’re well known and haven’t been on in recent years If the author has a really interesting back-story or if they are an amazing speaker that you could sell them in for as that, then…

Speakers Natasha Harding – The Sun, Book Columnist Veronica – The Sun, Associate Head of Features Audrey Ward – The Sunday Times, Head of Serialisation   Audrey Ward Head of serialisation means that she considers books for straight extract or with an author interview or author interview alone if they have a good personal story…

Speakers: Joel Golby, Joel Golby’s Book Club Mark Heywood, Behind the Spine Jess & Lauren, Book Reccos Joel Golby, Joel Golby’s Book Club Podcast comprises of Joel’s personal reading list, with 15-20 minutes of his reviews and thoughts Covers contemporary fiction Joel is a writer so there are also episodes on the writing process As…

Martin Chilton – Independent Digital only newspaper, not to be confused with the i newspaper Martin is a freelancer, but chief book critic Media partners of Hay and also involved with Henley Literary Festival They don’t have a books team, but Jessie Thompson is their arts editor who is very interested in books Jessie is…

Nina Pottell, Prima and Between the Covers Books editor Prima One of three jobs! Hairdresser, book consultant Between Covers Similar lead-times to Sara Manning (Red) Double page spread each month. Review 3 new releases. Theme 3 books under a theme. If I have a lot of books that month I’ll try and add in more…

Hannah Stephenson, Books Editor & Senior Features Writer, PA Media Vikki Irwin, Exec Producer at BBC CNS Local Vikki Irwin: BBC CNS Local BBC CNS Local compromises around 39 stations around England. Cover England mostly but do go out to Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Provide daily, national and local news to regional stations and provide…

Emma Bradshaw, The Bookseller’s Association The Bookseller’s Association advocates for booksellers so everything they do needs to be about the bookseller. Membership is across both the UK and Ireland and includes 95& of all retailers including Waterstone’s WH Smiths and Blackwell’s as well as smaller indies. Emma looks after Books are My Bag which connects…

Phil McGarvey, Vernon Kay programme Mid morning show Live every week day 9.30 – 12pm Took over from Ken Bruce, so Vernon inherited Tracks of My Years feature This is the main interview guest slot on his show Guest picks 10 songs from across their life, it’s a pre-recorded interview that is split across the…

Marcus Wratten, Pink News Entertainment reporter: has been in role for a year and a bit. Before that freelancing at different places, I news, pink news, etc. Covering all elements of entertainment – news, features and interviews. How we cover books? Very small team covering a broad spectrum of the entertainment world. Book coverage is limited.…

Ellen Williams – Breadsong Huge internal ambitions and an incredible amount of passion for this debut Ellen wanted to create a pre-publication event in order to reach new and already established supporters As well as a food audience, Ellen wanted to reach a more general non-fiction audience Ellen set out clear campaign aims Give yourself…