How to get your book published
A life-changing event with top editors and literary agents
Key Information
- Date: 2 March 2019
- Time: 9.30 am to 6.00 pm
- Where: Regents College, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4NS
- Price: £125 – €150 – $175
- Member discount: 10%
- Book doctor session: £50 – €60 – $70
An intensive, one-day event to help you get your novel or creative non-fiction published
Let’s help you get published
Join top editors and literary agents for this one-day event focusing on getting you published.
If traditional publishing is your goal, this event will take you through the necessities of creating a saleable manuscript, to what you need to do to get an agent and get published.
Literary agents will be on hand to answer questions and hear your pitches, and additional book doctor sessions will give you valuable one-to-one feedback on your work.
So – will you be one of the many writers who have walked away from this event with an offer of representation?
View just some of our successes.
Book your place today
2 March 2019 – Regents College, London
Learn how to get an agent and get published, and find out what agents think of your work. Price includes lunch voucher and drinks.
Got questions? Then drop us a line.
What we’ll cover
| Time | Activity |
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Registration |
| 09.30 – 10.20 | James Law – Advanced Characterisation |
| 10.20 – 11.20 | Debi Alper – Self-Edit Your Novel |
| 11.20 – 11.40 | Coffee Break |
| 11.40 – 12.30 | Julie Cohen – Half a Dozen Things to Do with a Post-It Note |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Sarah Juckes – The Getting Published Masterclass |
| 14.30 – 15.20 | Cathy Bramley & Hannah Ferguson – The Agent-Author Relationship |
| 15.20 – 15.40 | Coffee break |
| 15.40 – 16.30 | Sandra Sawicka and Imogen Pelham – Dos & Don’ts from Agents |
| 16.30 – 17.30 | Slushpile Live |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Reception Drinks |
Book Doctor Sessions
Delegates have the option to book a one-to-one feedback session with a professional book doctor.
Absolutely nothing makes your book better than professional independent feedback, and our book doctors have helped hundreds of writers like you get exactly that.
The day in detail
Morning sessions
Advanced characterisation
With James Law
What makes readers fall in love with your characters? This workshop will focus on practical things you can do to ensure your characters leap off the page.
Self-edit your novel
With Debi Alper
Every great writer is a great re-writer. Learning the art of self-editing is essential if your work is to persuade an agent (and publisher) to take you on. Based on the bestselling course
Half a dozen things to do with a post-it note
With Julie Cohen
This is a hand-on workshop about using Post-Its to brainstorm, plan and revise your novel, giving practical techniques that you can apply to every stage of the writing process.
Afternoon sessions
The getting published masterclass
With Sarah Juckes
This power-packed hour is your blueprint for getting a literary agent. Learn how to write the perfect cover letter and synopsis, the easy way.
The agent-author relationship
With Cathy Bramley & Hannah Ferguson
Explore the key aspects of how agents and authors work together. How to choose an agent and what you, as an author, can expect.
Dos and don’ts from agents
With Sandra Sawicka & Imogen Pelham
Learn how to avoid the classic pitfalls that hamper an author’s path to publication, when submitting to agents and throughout the publication process.
Slushpile live
We put your work in front of our panel of industry experts to analyse and review it. An intimidating but brilliant session, that could lead to you walking away with an agent.
About our Speakers
James Law
James is a former submariner and now internationally published author. With an MA in Creative Writing, James writes thrillers including The Dark Beneath and The Fear Within.
Debi Alper
Debi is an author with Orion and runs the extremely successful ‘Self-Edit Your Novel’ course. Debi is one of our top editors and has helped hundreds of writers to publication.
Julie Cohen
Julie Cohen’s award-winning, bestselling novels have been twice selected for the Richard and Judy book club. She is also one of our most popular creative writing tutors – come along to find out why!
Sarah Juckes
Sarah has worked in publishing for eight years and is now a Content Creator for Jericho Writers. Her debut YA novel, ‘Outside’, was published by Penguin in January 2019.
Cathy Bramley
Cathy is the author of the best-selling romantic comedies Ivy Lane, Appleby farm, Conditional Love, Wickham Hall and The Plumberry School Of Comfort Food.
About the agents and publishers
Hannah Ferguson
Hannah Ferguson is an agent at Handman and Swainson
She represents Sunday Times Bestselling Miranda Dickinson, Carrie Hope Fletcher and ‘The Unmumsy Mum’ Sarah Turner, and best-selling novelists Giovanna Fletcher, Kirsty Greenwood and Cathy Bramley.
Imogen Pelham
Imogen Pelham joined Marjacq as a literary agent in 2015.
She represents literary fiction, non-fiction which looks at serious subjects in innovative ways, and some standout commercial fiction. She is particularly interested in identity, the arts and investigative journalism.
Sandra Sawicka
Sandra Sawicka is an agent with Marjacq Scripts.
She would love to see action-packed space operas, accessible SF, crime with a speculative edge, Southern Gothic, campus novels, road novels, spooky mysteries, ghost stories, high concept, YA adventure, anti-heroes, popular science non-fiction (especially linguistics, cybernetics, and astronomy).
About our Book doctors
We’re going to bring some of our best book doctors to this event to give you one-to-one feedback on your work.
How it works
When you book your ticket, you will be offered the chance to book a one-to-one session with a book doctor (at a cost of £50 over the standard ticket price).
If you select this option, we’ll ask you to email us, by 19th February 2019:
- Your draft query letter
- Your draft synopsis
- The first 3,000 words of your manuscript
We will arrange for you to have a 15 minute session with a book doctor, who will give you detailed feedback on your work and suggestions for improvement.
We will allocate book doctors prior to the event and will let you know who you’ll be seeing and when. Sessions will overlap with scheduled workshops – you can just slip in and out as needed.
Our book doctors
Debi Alper
Debi is a critically-acclaimed author and tutor of our wildly-popular ‘Self-Edit Your Novel’ course. Debi had helped hundreds of writers to publication. Will you be next?
Sarah Juckes
Sarah has worked in publishing for eight years and is now a Content Creator for Jericho Writers. Her debut YA novel, ‘Outside’, was published by Penguin in January 2019.
Imogen Pelham
Imogen is a literary agent with Marjacq, representing literary fiction, standout commercial fiction and innovative non-fiction.. She has regularly attends and holds one to one session with delegates at our Festival of Writing.
Good to know
Details, details, details…
Who is this event for? – Anyone wanting to get a literary agent, and get their novel or creative non-fiction published.
Event status – Now booking
Disabled access – Wheelchair accessible.
Dietary needs – The canteen caters to most dietary requirements with a selection of packaged and fresh food.
Location – Regents College, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4NS
Slushpile Live – If you want to enter Slushpile Live, please email us the opening page of your manuscript at least 1 week before the event on info@jerichowriters.com, with the subject ‘Getting Published Slushpile Live’. We won’t have time to review all submissions, but you’ll learn a ton, no matter what.
What your ticket includes
2 March 2019 – Regents College, London
- Entrance to all sessions
- Tea & coffee
- Lunch (voucher for up to £7.50 in the excellent college canteen)
- Opportunity to enter Slushpile Live
- Optional: book doctor session (learn more)
Getting there
Get directions to Regents College, London
Why Us?
Jericho Writers has been in the business of helping writers for more than a dozen years.
We’ve helped thousands of writers get started in writing or make huge improvements to their existing work. Hundreds of our clients – all of them writers like you – have gone on to get agents and get published or self-published with huge success.
The secret of our success – and yours – is simple. Jericho Writers was founded by writers, for writers. We know what it takes to write a book and make it succeed and we are here to pass that knowledge on to you. Read more about our founder, Harry Bingham, or meet our team.
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