One of the most challenging weeks I've ever had in publishing. Very much looking forward to tomorrow’s Huddle 
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This Saturday... Join Peter & Litopians for Pop-Up Catch-Ups... Info here...
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Launching a major book at the moment is... challenging...
Coming up on today's Pop-Up Submissions... "My October" - middle grade adventure fantasy by Jennifer Claessen; "Hashtags: A Novel" - literary / commercial fiction by Polly Becker; "The Gray Nothing Scar" - thriller by Rebekah Alexander; "Let Yourself In" - revenge thriller by Darren Burgess and "Family of the Stars" - epic fantasy by D. A. Smith. Join us LIVE at 5pm UK!
If you're self-isolating and need a culture fix, try some Met Opera for free this week...
Remember – today’s Pop-Ups starts at 5pm UK BUT since the US is now on EDT, that’s 1pm New York / 10am Los Angeles… see you later!AgentPete, is there a limit to the number of comments that can be made on your bus cough post? I've tried several times to add a comment and nothing happens.
London Book Fair has just been cancelled! Seems like a panic move to me.
Somebody coughed on my bus just now. Everyone looked at them.
Coming up on this Sunday's Pop-Up Submissions... "Popcorn Fox in the Sands to the City" - YA climatic fiction by Oliver Prescott; "Outbox" - comedy by Tom Duggins; "Enemy on the Other Side" - speculative fiction by Caroline A Scott; "The Last House in London" - post-apocalyptic distopia by Theodor Bernard Kung and "Contractor" - memoir/espionage/adventure by Billy Mays. Join me LIVE in the chatroom at 5pm UK!
Hugely enjoyed Agrippina live from the Met last night! Join me later today for Pop-Ups, no singing but I can promise quite a show
London Book Fair insanity has muchly occupied me these last few days. Soon back to normal.
There will be at least one Huddle and one Pop-Ups/Catch-Ups in March, maybe more. Do watch out for dates when posted, and please try to join me
Hollywood screenwriter Caroline Ryder is our special guest on today's Pop-Up Submissions, join us live at 5pm UK
Thank you to the fabulous Litopians who kept me company just now in the chat room as we sorted through 50 submissions… the hit rate this time was 18%. Let’s do it again soon!
Join me and your fellow Litopians at 5pm TODAY for Pop-Ups Catch-Ups!
Urgent! LeahH has had to drop out of Pop-Ups today (she’s bed-ridden! Get well soon!!!) so if any other Litopian wants to jump in and fill the vacancy, send me a message NOW!
So looking forward to having Arianne "Tex" Thompson guest on Pop-Ups this Sunday! I’ve never spoken to anyone whose middle name is “Tex” before And I hear she wears a cowboy hat too… unmissable!
Unreasonably happy to find that Hayao Miyazaki is now on UK Netflix...
On tomorrow's Pop-Up Submissions: special guest Mo O'Hara with fantasy by Victoria Bastedo; commercial women's fiction by Caroline Meech; adult romantic fiction by lynn hughes; historical fiction by Victoria; dystpian by Theo Von Cezar. Join us live in the chat room, 5pm UK!
Please join me live in the chat room today for the very first Pop-Ups Catch-Up!
Two fabulous guests on Pop-Ups tonight… Litopia’s own @georginaK – one of our brilliant team of narrators, and her first time in front of the camera – and Emma Robinson who struggled out of A&E minutes before the show started! Wow!
More good news for my client Michelle Paver, Viper's Daughter has been chosen as Children's Book of the Month by Fiona Noble in The Bookseller!
Big day today, Ian McKellen recording Michelle Paver’s next book in the Wolf Brother series!
Sorry, folk – last-minute substitution: The Lake at Standing Rock by Rachel O'Sullivan will now be on next weeks’ show and has been replaced on today’s show by "PINTO!" by M.J. Evans.
Join me live in the Litopia chat room for today's show... with fiction by Andrew Smith; self-help by Julie Leoni; historical by Hannah Rose Marsden; social thriller by Sinead Nic Cionna; speculative by Rachel O'Sullivan. At 5pm UK.
Coming up on this Sunday's Pop-Up Submissions... "Alice the Wise" - ya sci-fi by Bob Albo; "One in a Trillion" - suspense/thriller by Darren Burgess; "Toubab Tales" - travel / biography by Rob Baker; "Our Wandering" - upmarket by Lorna Brown and "The Eye Collector" - urban fantasy/thriller by Simon Kewin. Join me live at 5pm UK here in the Litopia chatroom!
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