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You can now choose a timeslot for your Power Hour, and who the session will be with buy clicking the ‘Book TLC Power Hour with AKI/JOE’ below.
In order to help you get the most out of the session, please find attached a TLC Power Hour pack with some preparatory information. Also attached is a Word document goal setting worksheet.
If you can fill out the Word goal setting worksheet and send it to TLC before the session.
There is a reminder of the bios of the TLC senior team members below.
Aki Schilz – TLC Director
Aki Schilz is the Director of The Literary Consultancy. She has featured in the Bookseller 150, a list of the most influential figures in UK publishing, twice: in 2020 and in 2021. At TLC Aki is in charge of all business strategy, programming and partnerships. She oversees all editorial service provision, and curates the events programme. She also manages TLC’s Quality Manuscript writers whom she represents to literary agencies TLC has a working relationship with. Aki’s work to improve representation and accessibility in the literature sector has been recognised by the Kim Scott Walwyn and h100 awards, and includes her #BookJobTransparency campaign, her work and research on creativity and wellbeing through TLC’s Being A Writer platform which she launched in 2020 with the novelist and coach Julia Forster, and the Ethical Editing training workshops for publishers which she co-devised and runs with Dr Kavita Bhanot. In 2023 Aki was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature for her contributions to literature. She is the current Vice Chair of the human rights charity English PEN, and is a coach-in-training with the Center for Executive Coaching. She regularly gives talks at festivals and conferences about editing, writing, and publishing, and particularly enjoys chairing panel discussions on the latest issues in publishing.
Joe Sedgwick – Head of Writing Services
Joe Sedgwick has worked at TLC since 2015, beginning as a paid intern, and working his way up to Head of Writing Services. He manages TLC’s core editorial and operational services, looking after its team of readers and mentors and overseeing all in-house processes. Joe has a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and American Studies from Manchester University, and an MA in Publishing from Kingston University. He is on the Board of Trustees at Spread the Word, London’s literature development charity. Joe has undertaken internships at Palgrave MacMillan and Bloomsbury, and lead seminars on synopsis writing at Manchester Metropolitan University for Comma Press and New Writing North. He has read for Spread the Word’s London Short Story Prize & Life Writing Prize, and Joe has spoken at the Southbank Centre at London Lit Fest, Kingston University, The Asian Writer Festival, & New Writing North’s Newcastle Writing Conference. He enjoys reading literary fiction, commercial fiction, and non-fiction.
If you encounter any technical difficulties or run into any issues whilst booking, please contact and we will aim to rectify the issue as soon as possible.
