Sunday at the Chichester Writing Festival began with New Publishing and the panelists were - Alison Baverstock- publisher, trainer and writer, Dan Kiernan-writer and co-founder of new publisher Uboundand Adrian Weston agent.

Again the notes for this session are bitty...

DK Unbound – people buying into the work before hand, the audience is already thereThe author has to be entrepreneurDignity of author – content creatorAB Self- publishing is a process not a productHas to have value to someoneSelf-publishing teaches you about publishing, you have to replicate it all AW Agent representing self pubs on foreign rights

Not sure who to attribute these to...How do you boundary time – importance of creating something worth reading

Building and audience connectingMarket visibly and editorial

The second session on Sunday was Writing For Children with Sally Kindberg - artist and author, Bridget Strevens - author and illustrator and David Whitley-author. I only captured David's thoughts as the others were varied on illustrations and confession...one gave me a brilliant story idea and well my mind was off plotting...





D W Darkness – take it as far as it needs to goFocus on the emotion of the scene – then the scene will develop momentum – Greg MosseBegan with Fanfiction at 19 and is now 27 (see Joanna Trollope's comment from yesterday's notes)

Tomorrow my notes on Kate Mosse's chat with Francesca Simon...