AGENT AND PUBLISHING EVENT

Finding an Agent and How to Get Published is a panel discussion hosted by Irish PEN with literary agent Sheila Crowley, editor Mary Webb, and publisher Eoin McHugh

At: United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2

8 p.m. Thursday 11th September

Email irishpen@ireland.com or phone 087 966 0770

Cost is €3 members & €5 non-members

There's a fairly commercial fiction bias here as Sheila 'has masterminded many No.1 bestsellers' (?!) and 'focuses primarily on women’s commercial fiction, thrillers, mbs (mind, body, spirit), sport and celebrity books'. And Eoin McHugh (formerly of Easons) heads up Transworld Ireland, the publishers 'responsible for recent bestsellers from Patricia Scanlan, Mandy Hearty and Amanda Brunker'.

Still, sometimes these events can be an eye opener in terms of information you would not otherwise learn. And it's a nice way to meet other writers too!