The Market Harborough Literary Festival - Writers Day

An interactive workshop aimed at unpublished debut authors looking to understand how the publishing process works, from typing The End to seeing your book on the shelf.Join Sara-Jade Virtue for a whirlwind whistle-stop tour through nailing your Pitch and Synopsis, touching on the difference between a Structural, Line and Copy Edit, to typesetting, proof-reading and cover design, hitting the basics of marketing, publicity and sales, post-publication, 'What Can I Do To Help Sell My Book?', and finishing the journey with the all-important question - 'Do I Need An Agent?'Sara-Jade Virtue has worked in the book industry for 21 years, firstly at Waterstones in the Fiction Buying Team.

She joined Simon & Schuster UK in 2007 and spent 12 years as Special Sales Director and Brand Director for the S&S industry-first women's fiction community, Books and the City.

She became Brand elopment Director in 2019, working across the commercial women's fiction.