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.
2009
May 27th: Do You Really Need a Literary Agent? May 4th: Being Published April 30th: Websites for Writers: A Brief Overview April 14th: How I Found the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency (part 5) April 9th: The Importance of a Good Website March 30th: Submission tips March 15th: An Interview with Cathy Glass March 15th: How I Found the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency (Part 4) February 15th: Predictions February 8th: Preparation Is Key February 1st: The Theory of Evaluation January 25th: The books of 2009 January 21st: Publishing Trends January 20th: A Week in the Life of a Literary Agency2008
December 11th: What an Author Can Learn from the Music Industry December 10th: The Importance of International Publicity December 1st: Publicity Tips November 27th: How to Snag an Agent in These Economic Times November 25th: Writers Don't Have To Write Books October 13th: No, I Didn’t Bring Down Wall Street Just to Sell My Book October 12th: What on Earth Happened to Big History? October 11th: The Experiences of Ghosting An Ordinary Soldier August 25th: Rewriting History August 20th: A Space of One's Own July 26th: The Future of History July 20th: Embracing Darkness and Uncovering Our Forgotten Pasts: A Quest to Make Reading for Boys Cool Again July 14th: Gutenberg’s Web June 22nd: A Short History of Why the US Market Has a Cold… and the UK Has the Flu May 31st: Biographer Neil Simpson on the Highs – and Lows – of an American Radio Tour 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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