Andrew Lownie uses his expert knowledge in the publishing field to maximise the potential of his clients and build up their careers. Here Andrew Lownie, and some of his clients and guest columnists, share advice on a variety of topics to writers.
Elsewhere on the site you can find a Frequently Asked Questions list on literary agents, as well as advice for submitting work to agents.
2008
May 1st: Should Your Literary Agent Make You Cry? April 8th: How I Found the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency (Part 3) March 26th: Big in Norway March 20th: An Interview with Damien Lewis March 11th: The Power of a Press Release February 17th: The eBook Prophecy January 29th: Using The Internet To Catch The Attention of Potential Readers January 8th: Marketing Authors for the Long Haul January 5th: The Branding Debate January 3rd: How Brands Hatch January 1st: It’s a Biscuit, It’s a Bike – But It’s Seldom Just a Book2007
December 3rd: Where Hollywood Tries to Meet History November 25th: In Defence of Misery Memoirs November 5th: The Long Hard Sell November 2nd: Getting Yourself Properly Published in Canada September 16th: Lazarus in Dark Glasses August 21st: Living the Writer's Dream July 10th: The New World Order Will Not Be Televised July 1st: How to Write a Military History Best-seller June 2nd: Marketing Duncan Falconer June 1st: Book Publicity Begins at Home May 1st: Writing History: Thriller or Chiller? April 1st: Publicity - Giving Your Book the Help It Needs March 3rd: More marketing tips from
Lovejoy February 1st: Lovejoy’s
Marketing Tips January 20th: From Russia, With
Polonium January 08th: Magic Words2006
December 1st: Reflections of a
Sales Rep
November 1st: How I Found The
Andrew Lownie Literary Agency part 2
October 29th: How I Got Slim and
Fit, Eating Like a Caveman
October 2nd: Fifteen Tips on
Approaching an Agent
October 1st: An interview with
Damien Lewis
September 1st: Another Week in
the Life of a Literary Agent
August 2nd: The Quality of Mercy
July 21st: How the Lord of Darkness
gave PR advice to Electrolux
June 10th: The High Cost of Living
a Twisted Ideology
May 29th: The Practical Guide to
Submitting Your Material
May 25th: Some Tips for Writing
Effective Book Proposals
April 26th: Some Background to
David Roberts' 1930s Detective Series
April 21st: A Brief
History of Meetings
April 20th: UFOS are back
April 11th: A Literary Editor's
View of Publicity and Review Copies
April 3rd: Writing Children's
History
April 2nd: Microsoft Word? No
Thanks, BILL, I'm a Writer...
April 2nd: Creating a List
April 1st: Inside a Publishing
House
April 1st: What Life as an
Editor Entails, Series Three
March 4th: Publishing Outside
the Bubble
March 3rd: What Life as an
Editor Entails, Series Two
March 3rd: What Life as an
Editor Entails, Series One
March 2nd: Using British and Irish
Online Family History Records in Your Research
February 2nd: How I Heard about
the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
January 2nd: A Week in the
Life of Literary Agency
January 1st: New Year Message
2005
December 1st: The Freedom of
Information Act November 1st: Publishing Prose
in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Opportunities May 2nd: Self-publishing –
one writer's experience March 2nd: Four Months On... February 1st: A Reader's Guide
to Writing2004
December 1st: Getting Your Name
and Books onto the World Wide Web November 3rd: Engaging the
Local Press October 2nd: The maze of US tax
bureaucracy and ITIN numbers
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