Working with Authors

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Working with Authors


Dates:

9 October 2008 (a one-day course)

 

Price:

£349+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

 

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)


Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

 

"I have begun to understand the authors’ position and how I can improve my relationship with them. The course was very beneficial in understanding how to get the best from authors."

Institute of Physics Publishing delegate



Authors are the lifeblood of publishing – you can’t do it without them! But relationships between author, editor and publisher can sometimes be fraught. Differing aims and objectives, simple misunderstandings and failed communications can all contribute to delay, extra cost and unnecessary conflict. Sounds familiar?


This one-day course will help you to:

 

  • get the best from your authors
  • understand the dynamics of the publisher/author relationship
  • anticipate and prevent problems before they happen
  • get your manuscript on time, on budget and on brief.

 

The course has practical solutions to everyday problems, and benefits from the knowledge of a highly experienced publisher (and writer!). Delegates can contribute their own experiences and issues and will end up with a series of principles and concepts that can be applied in a wide range of situations.

Programme

  • The role of the author: the author as core value
  • What makes a good author?
  • Finding contacts
  • Single authors or teams?
  • Defining the project
    • Assessing sample material
    • Anticipating problems
    • Writing a brief
  • The author’s view
  • Negotiating terms
    • Royalties, advances and agents
    • Schedule, delivery and acceptance
  • Resolving difficulties
  • After-care: proofs / publication / sales

 

Who will benefit from this course?
Desk Editors, Junior Editors, Managing Editors and Commissioning Editors, especially those working in educational, academic and professional publishing.


Your tutor
Brenda Stones is a freelance consultant who has worked in educational publishing for many years: in mainstream companies like CUP, OUP, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Pearson; in smaller companies like Hutchinson, Walker Books, National Gallery Company and Letts; in overseas training, for Pakistan, Latin America, ex Soviet republics and Eritrea; and in freelance editorial, market research and authorship, for Badger Publishing, BBC, Egmont and Franklin Watts. She will be joined by an author who will give their view from ‘the other side of the fence’.


Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.


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Dates: 9 October 2008

Price: £349+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

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Course title:
Working with Authors
Course price:
£349 +VAT
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9 October 2008