James Spackman

House of Guinness is pony imo

Final Days to fill out the survey!
Help them understand comic creators work/finances & help grow their case for supporting comics.

DO IT ASAP! Please!
(UK based creators only)

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I mean, it's the go-to, isn't it?

This week's Book Pitch Doctor's Surgery is all about The End (of your pitch).

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#booksky

A hugely important update for authors and publishers: you may not be eligible, it's a defined list of titles based on US copyright registration and date eligibility, not everything in LibGen. But take five minutes to be sure 👉

🚨FINAL FEW DAYS!🚨

The UK Comics Creator Survey will close forever at midnight on Monday 6th! Have you submitted your response yet? Or were you, like me*, waiting for the last minute? The last minute is now, lads! Get in there!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

*I thrive** on pressure
**Exist painfully

An indy bookseller speaks! Bookshop.org is AMAZING and frankly, without it, a lot of us would have struggled even more during lockdown. WAYYY better than Hive (if you’re picking the book up from a bookshop, why aren’t you ordering it directly from them in the first place??)

#222: James Alistair Henry, screenwriter and novelist

I'm on the Always Take Notes podcast, talking Pagans and scriptwriting. Enjoyed this one as lot as it's quite into the process end of things as well as covering how you actually make a living and balancing writing with childcare stuff.

open.spotify.com/episode/2OOb...

Unimprovable publisher-acknowledgment

This week's Book Pitch Doctor's Surgery is all about how to *start* a book pitch ... mailchi.mp/7feec4ba13d4...

Thanks GW! And thanks @alisonjones.com :)

A vocalist abd a keyboard player performing in front of a pub menu.

A short thing about music. Please indulge me.

My son and his girlfriend did a pub gig this afternoon. Here they are. Voice and keyboard. Jazz standards. They were good, but that’s not the point. (1/n)

Love this

Thanks George :)

This week's Book Pitch Doctor's Surgery answers the vexed question 'where should I look when I'm pitching?'

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Haha! YES

totally could've

We didn't discuss it, but I thought the same. I was gonna v him at judo on the way to the loo but then thought nah he's not worth it

As a regular (albeit mediocre) racing track cyclist, I can report that *nothing* is more terrifying than the Embankment bike lane at 0845 on a sunny tube-strike day.

Thank you to one of my publishing heroes, Hilary Murray Hill for this endorsement of How to Pitch a Book (available here - www.bookpitchdoctor.com )

Crack on 👍

Think I’ll check out the score in the cric-

Fucks sake.

🔊 PODCASTERS!! 💬
THE THING WITH FEATHERS is out this Autumn & features Cumberbatch playing a comic creator (with art by me)

The director Dylan Southern & myself would love to chat to you about the film, comics, the art & more
Drop me a line if you’re keen!

www.imdb.com/title/tt2777...
Pls share!

The Book Pitch Doctor's Surgery this week is all about 'The Reels Pinch' and other new gestures ... mailchi.mp/827a8a68b6d8...

I offer Authenticity Reader services - and have a dedicated rolodex of 2,000 Associates that I have garnered over ten years in the Book Trade, both at home in the UK and overseas in counties further afield.

✉️:Hamzahamza@hamzajahanzeb.co.uk

Can anyone help @guywalters.bsky.social with a bookish filming location?

Thanks to the esteemed JHW for this fab review of HOW TO PITCH A BOOK (and its associated 'banned list' of pitch lines, which I *still* have to resist using ...) www.bookpitchdoctor.com

Brasserie Georges is a brilliant local institution - the only restaurant I wouldn't mind queuing for. And the museum next to the amphitheatre is a stunning bit of modern architecture imo.

Chuffed to get this quote from the brilliant Lucy Hale

I developed the very first pilot of Book Pitch Doctor for Lucy, many *many* years ago :)

Link to How to Pitch a Book here: www.bookpitchdoctor.com