WRITER'S ADVICE FAIR STALLS 2024
Author
Genre
Advice offered
Alison Huntingford
Historical fiction, founder of South Hams Authors Network
Promotional opportunities for authors
Mark Blackburn
Memoir/ travelogue/ children’s fiction
Finding agents and submitting directly to indie presses as well as the importance of doing your own marketing
RNIB transcription service
Accessible books information
Accessible books for blind and partially sighted
Elizabeth Ducie
Cosy crime/thrillers/ business for authors
All aspects of self-publishing including ISBNs and barcodes, KDP & Amazon, exclusivity versus wide availability, consignment stock versus Print on Demand, ALCS and PLR plus all aspects of running a small business as a writer.
Richard Frost
Contemporary fiction & faith-based non-fiction
How to keep going when sales are low, being content with small numbers of sales, not taking 'lack of interest' personally, enjoying the compliments.
Richard Handy
Historical fiction/ thrillers
Editing and the steps to prepare a book for publishing (you can ask him anything!)
Dawn Henderson
Fantasy/wellbeing
Self publishing on Amazon & everything related to that. Also deciding between self and trad publishing. Writing fantasy and wellbeing
Trevor Griffiths
Wellbeing
Writing non-fiction about emotional processing and wellbeing.
Joel Griffitt
History/ biography/ travel
Writing biography or non-fiction (related to travel)
Andy Grigg and Laurence Shelley
Memoirs
Writing travel memoirs
John McKenna and
Tony Rea
Romantic fiction
Historical fiction
Publishing with KDP and Amazon
Laurence McPartlin
Poetry
Writing and publishing poetry.
E. I. Parr
Psychological drama
Self publishing and hybrid publishing, plus the balance between these and traditional publishing.
Paul Roberts
Children's fiction
Writing for children
David Sharp
Crime fiction
Hybrid publishing
Ali Simpson
Romance/ mystery
General advice on how to get started on writing, particularly for older writers who want to take the plunge, but also on researching.
Simon Tozer
Devon based fiction and nonfiction
Writing about Devon
Morgana Weeks/ Wabi Sabi
Graphic novels
Graphic novel/ fantasy writing and guidance on illustrating
Anne Willingale and
Joslin Day
Historical fiction
Writing and publishing historical fiction
Abi Yardimci
Feel-good fiction/cosy crime
Social media and ways in which you can approach it as a helpful tool to build a readers' community as well as promote books and writers' news. This could extend to running an author's mailing list and offering reader magnets. Abi will share her experiences of working with social media to get rid of the sometimes daunting aspects of putting yourself online so that you can find a love for the medium as well as a manageable approach that fits in with your individual writer's lifestyle.
Writing at the Edge
Multiple
Writing at the Edge is a new collective set up by Jonathan Posner, Keith Rossiter, Jason Mann and William Telford, specifically to advise new writers, help them to improve their craft and prepare for self-publishing. On the craft of writing, they’ll be offering advice on pitching an idea, opening pages to hook in a reader, plotting, building tension, dialogue and character arcs (among many other related topics). On publishing, they’ll be offering advice mainly on self-publishing and all the elements involved – such as submitting to a hybrid publisher, editing, cover design, ISBNs, formatting, proofing, uploading to Amazon / Ingram Spark and marketing.
Other stalls
Various
Book signing stall for authors giving talks and workshops, plus box for competition entries
Art from the edge, Rogue Debby CIC, chronic illness & mental health support
Children's book exchange "Bring one, take one!" (or put 50p in honesty box!)
In the corridor Information only Pick up free leaflets on:
Local authors
Local wellbeing organisations/businesses