AgentPete

AgentPete · Apr 19, 2020

Featured on today's Pop-Ups... "Matilda & Sebastian" - YA from G.S. Banks; "Bookeemessiah" - SF from Michael Sawan; "Skjultvik" - mystery / horror from Stephen Durham; "Soil and Stars" - YA space opera from James Beedle; "Temples of Glass " - high fantasy from Matthew Atkinson.
Join me here at 5pm UK

AgentPete · Apr 18, 2020

Just had a text to say there's a bottle of bubbly arriving this afternoon! No idea who sent it, the kind donor will be revealed later, I hope - but I know what I'll be drinking at LitFest today! See you later!

AgentPete · Apr 3, 2020

One of the most challenging weeks I've ever had in publishing. Very much looking forward to tomorrow’s Huddle

AgentPete · Mar 29, 2020

POP-UPS today... YouTube seems to be having some problems with live streaming today. If you can't watch live via YouTube, use either twitch.tv or Facebook. Please continue to use the live Litopia chat room here.

AgentPete · Mar 29, 2020

Join me live today at 5pm UK / 12 noon EDT for Pop-Ups!

AgentPete · Mar 24, 2020

Launching a major book at the moment is... challenging...

AgentPete · Mar 22, 2020

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!

AgentPete · Mar 21, 2020

Publisher Melissa Eveleigh of March Hamilton is our special guest on tomorrow's Pop-Ups – join me!

AgentPete · Mar 18, 2020

If you're self-isolating and need a culture fix, try some Met Opera for free this week...

AgentPete · Mar 15, 2020

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!

Paul Whybrow · Mar 4, 2020

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.

AgentPete · Mar 4, 2020

London Book Fair has just been cancelled! Seems like a panic move to me.

AgentPete · Mar 3, 2020

Somebody coughed on my bus just now. Everyone looked at them.

AgentPete · Mar 3, 2020

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!

AgentPete · Mar 1, 2020

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

AgentPete · Feb 29, 2020

London Book Fair insanity has muchly occupied me these last few days. Soon back to normal.

AgentPete · Feb 23, 2020

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

AgentPete · Feb 23, 2020

Don’t forget to join me in the chat room at 5pm UK time today for Pop-Ups!

AgentPete · Feb 16, 2020

Hollywood screenwriter Caroline Ryder is our special guest on today's Pop-Up Submissions, join us live at 5pm UK

AgentPete · Feb 15, 2020

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!

AgentPete · Feb 15, 2020

Join me and your fellow Litopians at 5pm TODAY for Pop-Ups Catch-Ups!

AgentPete · Feb 9, 2020

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!

AgentPete · Feb 6, 2020

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!

AgentPete · Feb 3, 2020

Unreasonably happy to find that Hayao Miyazaki is now on UK Netflix...

AgentPete · Feb 1, 2020

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!

AgentPete · Feb 1, 2020

Please join me live in the chat room today for the very first Pop-Ups Catch-Up!

AgentPete · Jan 26, 2020

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!

AgentPete · Jan 24, 2020

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!

AgentPete · Jan 21, 2020

Big day today, Ian McKellen recording Michelle Paver’s next book in the Wolf Brother series!

AgentPete · Jan 19, 2020

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.