Opening the Purse: Public Money & Indie Authors: DEBBIE YOUNG, PETER URPETH, GEMMA SELTZER, NICOLA SOLOMONS

April 17, 2015

Join Debbie Young of the Alliance of Independent Authors as she chairs a discussion with panellists Peter Urpeth of Scottish based Creative Agency, Emergents; John Prebble of Arts Council of England Literature Relationship Manager and Nicola Solomon of the Society of Authors.

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Author: Orna Ross

Orna Ross is a bestselling and award-winning author of historical fiction and inspirational poetry, and a creativity facilitator. As founder-director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, she has been named one of The Bookseller’s Top 100 people in publishing.

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Debra Roberts says:

April 27, 2015 at 9:11 PM

Sound was not so good. Long wait to start the activity while video was running caused me (and probably many others) to fast forward and miss some of the first talk.

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