Society of Authors

I mean, did you find that?

Oh yeah, so I actually, so I'm a member of the Society of Authors and they have some really good training courses.

So I have done a training course on promoting myself and on being on TV.

I do find it absolutely terrifying.

I'm no fraud.

The Society of Authors would have my whiskers for garters if I lied about this sort of thing.

[kettle] You remember the wake at Chapman's when Eric was serving all that wine from the Argentine? Well, it was a free bar, and I'm afraid yours truly got carried away.

It pains me to say it, but by the time I was taken home, I was profoundly pickled.

And in answer to Mark's question, is there a joint up thinking.

Yes, there is joint up thinking because we published a report five weeks ago called Brave New World, which was in association with the Society of Authors and the Association of Photographers.

and equity.

And in that we reported that 99% of those who were interviewed among those societies reported that their work had been scraped.

I actually find that harder and harder to do now because it feels so precarious in a way that over the last 20 years, it hasn't necessarily.

And even the mean income has gone down, right? So the Society of Authors sort of do an average of what everyone earns in a year.

And, you know, it's less now than it was 10 years ago.

And we've had inflation and all kinds happening.

But getting an agent is harder, I think, than getting a publisher.

So yeah, I do a lot of things like literary speed dating and where you like pitch your books to publishers through the Society of Authors.

So I've had a publication through them and that kind of thing.

But yeah, it's not easy, but it is fun.

Corinna is also a lay Dominican with a master's degree in English from Oxford University, and she lives in the United Kingdom.

She is a member of several literary and Catholic organizations, including the Society of Authors, Catholic Teen Books, Catholic Reads, the Angelic Warfare Confraternity, and the

Sodality of the Blessed Sacrament.

She writes strong protagonists with integrity.

Messrs.

King reported that the cost of production, that mysterious entity so obnoxious to the soul of the Society of Authors, would amount to about a hundred guineas.

A hundred guineas was a lot of money then, but being young I risked it.

It was better than if I had taken it to Monte Carlo anyway.

You know, I like the idea of finally done writing.

And then, you know, I sent it to, I'm a member of the Society of Authors.

I would recommend, by the way, for any other writers to join it.

And Vanessa Fox Loughlin, whose professional name is Sam Blake, I mean, she gave me some tips and basically said, no, it's not finished.

Miriam was respected by her peers.

On her 50th birthday, the Society of Authors gave her a replica of a stopwatch.

I believe this is supposed to be of a Tiny People character called Grandpa, and the stopwatch shows 4:00 PM because of a catchphrase from the books, "You always stop for tea time." Now, let's think about this.

Lady Chalfont, in Elliot's novel, dies around 4:00 PM, tea time.