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THIS IS AN INVITATION-ONLY EVENT, exclusively for TLC Chapter and Verse mentees and included within TLC’s mentoring programme offer, which covers 12 months of one-to-one support, a full manuscript assessment, and this all-day event.
Twice a year, TLC opens its doors to mentees enrolled on our Chapter and Verse programme for an intimate day designed to help writers better understand the ins and outs of the publishing process.
Mentees will have been working on their book project with their TLC mentor over several one-to-one feedback sessions, and this day offers the opportunity for them to meet with a literary agent and a publisher, and fellow mentees. The aim of the day is to demystify some of the in-house processes around submissions, acquisitions, rights, publicity and marketing, sales and distribution, and other elements that often remain hidden from view, as well as to get first-hand insight from those working within the industry and learn from their experiences. The TLC Mentoring Industry Day also offers the opportunity to pitch work for live feedback from our industry guests in a safe and supportive environment.
TLC mentees are invited to this event on a rolling basis, usually towards the end of the six feedback sessions with their TLC mentor. Occasionally, writers may be invited in from prizes we support, or initiatives we partner on, for example the Bridport Prize and the SI Leeds Prize.
This Industry Day will be held online via Zoom. Automatic captions are provided.
Our next in person Industry Day will be held in the Autumn, in London. Details tbc.
Speakers
Mireille C. Harper, Editorial Director at Bloomsbury (Tonic)
Mireille (mee-ray) Harper is Editorial Director of Tonic, Bloomsbury where she publishes wellbeing books. She is also the author of Timelines from Black History and contributor to Timelines of Everyone, The Black History Book, Migrations (DK) and The Feminist Book Society anthology, This Is How We Come Back Stronger, and runs an editorial and communications consultancy, where she specialises predominantly in authenticity reading and editing. A writer with over ten years of experience, Mireille’s words have been published in British Vogue, Glamour, Nataal, GUAP and Good Housekeeping to name a few. She is also a patron of the Free Books Campaign.
Elly James, literary agent and director at HHB
Elly James joined HHB Agency in 2007 to work alongside its founder, Heather-Holden-Brown and became sole director at the start of 2024, after Heather retired. Before that, she worked in television and film development where she relished the challenge of finding great storytellers, clever communicators and people with passions who have interesting perspectives. This continues to be the driver in her role as an agent, alongside the thrill of working out how to help transform a compelling idea or manuscript into a book that readers will cherish.
Elly represents novelists across women’s commercial / literary fiction, historical fiction, thrillers, sagas and cosy crime. She is always on the lookout for stories with original voices and emotional heft.
