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Monday 31 January 2011

Obsessed by Someone? A February date not to be missed...

Biography - What Publishers Are Looking For
Thursday 24th February Drinks 6.30 for 7.00 pm start
Organised by The Biographers Club
Swendenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH (nearest Tube Holborn or Tottenham Court Rd)
John Blake Managing Director of Blake Publishing, Heather McCallum Trade Publisher at Yale University Press, Alan Samson, Non-Fiction Publisher at Weidenfeld and Paul Sidey Editorial Director at Hutchinson will be discussing how the biography market is changing, what sort of biographies and authors they are looking for and how proposals should be presented.
Chaired by Nicholas Clee joint editor of BookBrunch and former editor of the Bookseller.
Tickets £10.
To book please send cheque [payable to The Biographers' Club] to the Club Secretary Andrew Lownie, 36 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BU, secretary@biographersclub.co.uk

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