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Feb 2012
39m 16s

Ebooks and DIY Publishing

NEW WRITING NORTH
About this episode

When he’s not being an agent at Jenny Brown Associates, Allan Guthrie is a crime novelist who won the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year in 2007 for his debut, Two-Way Split, and has been nominated for several awards, including an Edgar in the US. In the last year, he's also sold around 50,000 copies of his self-published ebooks. At this event, Allan is talking about digital publishing and how it worked for him, and explaining ways you can look to publish your work yourself on the web.

This event was part of Get Your Work Published, a one-day workshop held on 26 November 2011 at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland and organised by New Writing North for writers in the north east of England.

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