READ WHAT EDITORS AND AGENTS ARE LOOKING FOR
Editors and agents from both sides of the Atlantic now consider the Festival a must. And nowhere else can writers get information and make contacts with the world of international publishing in such an amenable setting as at the Festival. The 2011 program is shaping up to be bigger and richer than ever!
Our Book Market—the one-on-one appointments with agents and editors—is a unique opportunity to sell your books to foreign markets, the only writers’ conference where this is possible.
To make an appointment with an editor or agent, please email
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by the 15th of september 2011.
Please remember that you have 10 minutes to make you pitch.
You may bring a one page synopsis, and remember you business card.
Our roster of editors:
From the USA, Gabrielle Harbowy, Dragon Moon Press; Sue Swift, Etopia Press.
From the UK, Jessica Leeke, Simon & Schuster; Ruth Tross, Hodder Publishing.
From Germany, Julia Wagner, Ullstein Verlag.
From Italy, Alessandra Bazardi, Harlequin Mondadori; Laura Ceccacci, Fanucci Editore; Daniela De Rosa, editor Kowalski, Giulia Ichino, Mondadori; Cristina Palomba, Ponte alle Grazie; Anna Pastore, Frassinelli.
Our writer's help desk: Sheila English, Chair of Social Network Committee at International Thriller Writer's Organization, Raoul Chiesa, hacker and data security expert, Beth Barany, social media expert.
Thursday and Friday afternoon from 4:30 pm to 6 pm, the Festival will organize brainstorming sessions in English aith author/writing coach Sophie King.
Saturday afternoon the brainstorming session will be in Italian with literary agent Maria Paola Romeo.
To register, please contact
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The agents: Maria Paola Romeo, Grandi & Associati (It), Judith Murdoch, Murdoch Literary Agency (Uk);Sallyanne Sweeney, Watson & Little Literary Agency (Uk); Rita Vivian, Rita Vivian Literary Agency (It); Christine Witthohn, Book Cents Literary Agency (Us).
DAL WOMEN'S FICTION FESTIVAL ALLE LIBRERIE DI MEZZO MONDO
Tra le altre autrici che hanno pubblicato i loro libri grazie al WFF: Giuseppina Torregrossa, con il Conto delle minne (Mondadori), attualmente tra i libri più letti in classifica, con Manna e miele, ferro e fuoco (Mondadori), Emilia Marasco, con Famiglia Femminile Plurale, Daniela de Prato, con il Sole negli occhi (Tea Libri), Garbiella Genisi, con La circonferenza delle arance (Sonzogno), in onda prossimamente in una fiction tv; Margaret Moore, con Tuscan Terminator (Worldwide Mystery), Elizabeth Edmondson, con Doume and Shadows (Sourcebooks), e altre scrittrici sono in trattativa con agenzie letterarie e case editrici internazionali.
