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Business of Publishing- open session

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  • 09-01-2008 9:45pm
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    Catherine Daly
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    Irish PEN presents:
    Thursday 10th January 8pm- Business of Publishing
    An essential evening for writers who want to know more about the book business and how to get published. Three experts from different aspects of the book trade will talk about the business and answer questions.


    Location: The United Arts Club, 3 Upr Fitzwilliam st, D2 at 8pm
    €5 at door, (€3 members/ associates)

    Booking essential, places limited. irishpen@ireland.com


    Maria Dickenson is head of buying at Eason's, where she has worked for nine years. Eason's stores are located in nearly every major urban centre in Ireland and the company is a key player in Irish book sale and distribution. Maria herself is on the committees of the Booksellers' Association and the Society of Publishers in Ireland. She writes a monthly column on the Irish book trade for the UK trade journal Publishing News, and she is a media commentator on publishing eg for Newstalk. She is also a voracious reader herself.

    Faith O'Grady is a literary agent with the Lisa Richards Agency, a business which handles fiction and general non-fiction. Its authors include Denise Deegan, Paul Howard (Ross O'Carroll-Kelly) and Roisin Ingle. Faith is well placed to understand reader tastes and can advise on publishing, bookselling, the role of an agent and how to present work to an agent.

    Breda Purdue is group managing director for publishing and PR at Hachette Book Group Ireland (HBGI), a new company created by this month's merger of Hodder Headline Ireland and Little, Brown Ireland. Breda was formerly managing director of Hodder Headline Ireland. At HBGI - which is now the largest publishing group in Ireland - she will have responsibility for the Irish list and for Hachette children's books.


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