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Fabulous!! Great work Michelle, great sell Peter!

Welcome to the colony, Oscar!

Great stuff, well done Terry!

The lovely John Dougherty, who was a popular Pop-up Submissions panellist, has just bagged two awards in the Children Books Ireland awards - along with his illustrator, Tom Docherty, he got the Judge's Special Award and the Junior Juries' Award for his gorgeous picture book The Hare-Shaped Hole

Go Nikky!!

Having spent the last few years teaching A level linguistics, this is an area we've explored in our classes. Lakoff and Johnson's seminal work Metaphors We Live By (first published 1980) investigated the use of metaphors in our language and how we use them to make sense of abstract concepts...

Certain authors have a voice which enchants me...actually gives me a shiver of anticipation by their very prose style...especially those where there is a whiff of otherworldlness and deft lyricism combined with humour: Helen Dunmore Margaret Atwood Kate Atkinson Joanne Harris Angela Carter...

I'm deeply dubious about endorsements, including genuine ones. I have no doubt that most of the quotes from fellow authors which are featured on trad published book covers are genuinely meant, BUT I there is an understandably human tendency to exaggerate praise for someone you personally like...

Most, if not all of these will be familiar to any regular denizens of Pop-Up Submissions - but it's useful to have all the AGENT NO-NOs collected in one list! So, to ensure the first part of your submission gives you the best chance with an agent, read Amy Nielsen's blog post :) ..

You're very engaging Roz, so I have no doubt your reading will be a huge success!

Having a young child tends to have that effect!

Unless @AgentPete has a better idea, I guess the simplest way would be to start an announcement thread in Cafe Life with details and link :)

Oooh, congratulations — tell us more! How did it come about and how does it work? Do you keep the rights, but they get a commission for anything you sell through them? Or is there some other arrangement? Which press are we talking about? (I know — questions, questions!!) Please plug it in...

This has been a fascinating discussion, many thanks to @AgentPete @Roz Morris @BrianY @TimRees and everyone else who has contributed their thoughts and expertise on the subject so far! Yes, being spotted in the dense forest of books by passing readers online is hit and miss, unless you have the...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, @AgentPete — always illuminating! Very true! I suspect that's what's leading to the frustration from writers who are finding more online/public-facing marketing is expected of them than they would like from the entity taking a percentage of their earnings...