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urgery sessions


Joseph Coelho National Poetry Day Ambassador


Joseph’s first solo poetry collection, Werewolf Club Rules, won the CLPE Poetry Award 2015 and his collection Overheard in a Tower Block was short- listed for the CLPE Poetry Award 2018. He is an ambassador for National Poetry Day and a contrib- utor to the National Poetry Day anthology, Poetry for a Change.


Neil Coombe Games Workshop


Neil is responsible for developing Games Workshop’s Black Library imprint, which has produced bestselling and award-winning fiction for more than 20 years. Neil’s in-depth knowledge of Games Workshop’s worlds enables him to bring an innovative approach to creating new product lines.


Tobi Coventry Dialogue Scouting


Tobi has worked as a literary scout for film and television in various guises for the past five years, after starting his career in film and TV development and production. He now runs Dialogue Scouting, a scouting consultancy service working closely with a variety of produc- tion companies, both in the UK and the US.


Camilla Deakin Lupus Films


Camilla has more than 25 years’ experience in the TV and film industry. She founded Lupus Films in 2002. Lupus produced “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”, which was one of Channel 4’s highest-rated shows in a number of years. Camilla is currently producing an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel Kensuke’s Kingdom.


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Karen Ball is the founder of Speckled Pen, a consultancy that ors with


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helps content generators with Intellectual Property. She will be on hand to talk to those looking t


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expand their story ideas; with 26 years’ publish- ing experience, Karen is the go-to person foro person for anyone with kids’ book ambitions.


hand to talk to those looking to ory ideas; with 26 years’ publish-


Marine Debray HarperCollins UK


Marine is responsible for supporting HarperCollins’ corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions, as well as managing its business develop- ment of start-ups, and finding innovative ways to bring HarperCollins’ content to audiences.


Lisa Edwards Kings Road Publishing


Lisa has worked in the children’s book industry for 23 years and has managed the publishing and licensed activity of some of its biggest properties, including Horrible Histories, His Dark Materials and The Hunger Games. Lisa currently leads the publishing of the Templar Books, Big Picture Press and Studio Press imprints.


Maz Evans BookBuddy


Maz is the author of the bestselling Who Let the Gods Out? series, published by Chicken House, and founder of BookBuddy, which matches people who have surplus children’s books with schools. She began her writing career in journalism as a TV critic and feature writer.


Annie Everall Authors Aloud UK


Authors Aloud is an agency that organises author visits to schools and author events for publishers. Annie has developed a range of library services and reading initiatives and serves on the CILIP School Libraries Group committee. In 2001 she was awarded an OBE for services to children’s books and libraries.


Paul Blac ,, PR dir


Paul Black PR director at Andersen Press, will be running a surgery ses


session giving one-to-one advice about ho


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about how to create creative PR and mark


create creative PR and marketing campaigns. Sign up


and bring along an outline of your projects, and e them fly


and bring along an outline of y Paul’s expertise will make them fly.


Oksi Odedina co-founder of Leo Sounds and marketer at Warner os, will offer advice and new perspectives about how to reach young creative and cu turallye and culturl


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hungry audiences that may not traditionally be engaged with the book publishing industry


hungry audiences that may not traditionally be engaged with the book publishing industry.


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Aimée Felone Knights Of


Aimée was an assistant editor at Scholastic Children’s Books prior to co-founding Knights Of. She is a regular festival and panel speaker and has worked with Byte the Book, FutureBook and the Bologna and London book fairs. She won CBC Young Publishing Professional of the Year in 2017, and was named a Bookseller Rising Star.


TheBookseller.com


David Fickling David Fickling Books


Interview


In 1999, David formed David Fickling Books. Its successful fiction titles include Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust, Lisa


Williamson’s The Art of Being Normal and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. David was shortlisted for Editor of the Year at this year’s British Book Awards.


Anne Fine Author


Anne is a former children’s laureate and one of Britain’s most distin- guished writers. She has won the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year on two separate occasions, as well as numerous other prizes. Her novel Madame Doubtfire was adapted into a Hollywood film and is to be turned into a musical.


Emily Goldhill Livity


Emily specialises in using human-led approaches to design robust campaigns, programmes and services. Since joining creative network Livity in 2016, she has overseen the strategic direction of major projects for Google, YouTube and Facebook. She recently led the strategy for the MET’s new recruitment campaign to attract more BAME applicants.


Emily Hayward-Whitlock The Artists Partnership


Emily is a literary agent representing screenwrit- ers, playwrights, directors and book rights for film, television and theatre. She joined The Artists Partnership in 2015. Recent deals include selling Very British Problems to Alaska/ Channel 4, and Eleanor Oliphant is Completley Fine to Hello Sunshine.


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