April 10, 2019
- 9:30 am
at The Groucho Club
One of the key things our members ask about again and again is wanting to meet agents, so we're really excited to announce the launch of our agent tables events.
The third of these will be on Wednesday 10th April 2019 at The Groucho Club, Soho, and we are asking for submissions by Monday 18th March 2019 (see submission guidelines below for you to follow once you have booked your ticket).**
Think, eighteen authors, six agents plus a light breakfast at the Groucho Club, with each author submitting their work first and getting the opportunity to take two of the thirty-six slots on the day to meet privately with two agents each who have read their work
Tickets are £50* for Byte The Book and Groucho members and £85* for non-members.
If you're not already a member you can join Byte The Book here.
**Ticket price include a light breakfast but exclude booking fee and VAT.
*Submission Guidelines (once you have purchased your tickets)
Please submit to info@bytethebook.com by Monday 18th March 2019 and include all below in a single document. Also please save the document as your name then title: e.g. JoeBloggsAgentTablesAprilByteTheBook.
We require:
For fiction:
- A brief personal biography of around 250 words with anything that you feel is relevant to your application
- A synopsis up to 600 words outlining the plot of your novel
- A brief pitch of your novel of up to 250 words, including genre (crime, thriller, literary, commercial women's fiction, SF, etc.)
- First three chapters or equivalent amounting to 8,000-10,000 words
- Please also state what stage you are at - e.g. unfinished/finished manuscript; second draft, etc.
For narrative non-fiction (memoir/biography)
- a brief personal biography of around 400 words with anything you feel is relevant to your submission, including why you are the best person to tell this story and how you might help to promote it - details of your online presence, blog, social media platform, etc
- a pitch of around 250 words telling us why the focus of the biography/memoir makes for an interesting or relevant subject/why this is story that needs to be told
- an outline of around 600 words
- First three chapters or equivalent amounting
- to 8,000-10,000 words
- Please also state what stage you are at - e.g. unfinished/finished
- manuscript, second draft, etc.
For ideas-led/serious non-fiction (science, smart-thinking, health/wellbeing, history, etc.)
- a brief personal biography of up to 400 words with anything you feel is relevant to your submission including why you are qualified to write on this subject and how you might help to promote it - details of your online presence, blog, social media platform, etc
- an overview and outline (including brief chapter breakdown) of the book of 600-800 words.
- Two or three chapters amounting to around 8,000-10,000 words.
We are very grateful to our sponsors for this event:
