The seminar listings on the London Book Fair website have greatly expanded since I last looked a few weeks ago, and as usual, it all looks great. I love the Author HQ area especially, because I aspire to become successful enough to appear on a panel or give a talk there myself one of these days. And to pick up useful hints and tips of course. But the other seinar streams are not to be missed either.
The must-visit sessions for me this year at the moment are as follows. I daresay some of them will clash, so I will need to make some tough choices. But hopefully this list will whet your appetite too.
11 go-to sessions:
- Editing Culture/ The Culture of Editing
- Taking the fear out of AI - ethics, machine versus human, and real-life applications
- Academic Research: How Free Should it Be?
- How I Write - David Baldacci
- Nielsen Book: Books & Consumers annual survey - understanding consumer book buying behaviour
- An Introduction to Kindle Direct Publishing: Finding Readers Through Marketing and Engagement
- Page Central: The future of Typesetting, leveraging the power of HTML and browser
- Key points to watch out for in contracts, and why (Society of Authors)
- Collaborative Digital Marketing
- 'Doing it Live': Taking Book Campaigns to the Next Level
- Audiobooks
The London Book Fair is back again this year, in Olympia. As usual there are loads of seminars and even more stands. And if you’re an author, there is even more reason to attend.
The London Book Fair is back this year, and as usual there's a lot on that writers will find useful. The show this year is semi-hybrid….
This book is aimed at the small business person who has more energy than money to spend on publicity. That sounds like a description of most writers!
As I mentioned in my blog post about this year’s London Book Fair, this week there is also a Writers’ Summit.
As always the London Book Fair programme looks great, and the biggest problem you will face, I think, is deciding which talks to attend in the seminar programme. Bonus: this year the Fair is free to attend.
Will the scheduling of the next London Book Fair for 9-11 March 2021 turn out to be a triumph of hope over experience? Even if the London Book Fair does take place in a physical space next year, there is no reason that a virtual element could not be used to supplement it.
One of the pleasures of attending the London Book Fair is being able to pick up and read issues of Publishers Weekly. Unfortunately, because of the Covid-19 crisis, the LBF didn’t take place this year. But here is some good news.
The seminar programme at the London Book Fair (10-12 March) seems to be taking shape. Definitely worth checking out what’s in place so far.