Getting published | Alison Morton Author

Signing with A for Authors

It’s official and I’m • delighted (normal me) • thrilled (as per my books) • quietly pleased (very British) • ecstatic (OTT) (Highlight or delete as applicable)

Why? Because I will be working with Annette Crossland of A for Authors literary agency, who will be handling the subsidiary and foreign rights for my books.

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London Book Fair - Day 2

With Rhiann Watts and Eliza Green

As I walked down Earls Court Gardens to start Day 2 at the London Book Fair, I still felt the buzz of Day 1. Or maybe it was the warmth of the sunshine on my face…

The Roma Nova badges seem to be catching on…

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Carole Blake on ‘Does a writer still need an agent?'

Photo: Jack Ladenburg

I’m delighted to welcome my friend Carole Blake to my blog today to give an insight into one of the hottest questions in the publishing today. Carole has just celebrated 50 years in the publishing business, so she probably knows a thing or two. In 1977, after 14 years in […]

Meet Helen Hollick

My first special guest this spring is Helen Hollick, author of The Pendragon’s Banner trilogy (The Kingmaking, Pendragon’s Banner, Shadow of the King), a re-telling of the King Arthur legend where Arthur Pendragon is a post-Roman battle-hardened warlord. Before that, she wrote The Saxon Series (Harold the King (US – I Am the Chosen King) […]

Publishing attitudes

I’m a simple soul who likes writing. I quite like people and know agents, publishers, editors, writers from big publishers, small publishers, independent and small presses, aspiring writers, independent and self-published writers, not to mention commentators, bloggers, tutors and booksellers.

As a recent arrival on the scene (2009), I’ve striven to learn as much as […]