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April 2014

Posted by Linda on 28 Apr 2014

Shown above: My French team from Plon and France Loisirs.
 

On April 9, it was fun to finally make it to the London Book Fair I’ve heard about for years, and be so warmly welcomed by my agents and publishers. The LBF started in 1971 as a very small event, but is now called a “mecca for European publishers, booksellers, rights agents and media trendspotters”.

 

With Sarah Heller of Toronto's Helen Heller Agency

 

Thanks to my UK agents of the Marsh Agency for arranging a great event

 
 

Raising a glass with my Portuguese editor from Planeta Manuscrito

 
Currently held at Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre in West London, it attracts more than 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries. Pretty cool to wander around amidst all those books and book-lovers. An added perk was that the Duchess of Cornwall (yes, Camilla) happened to be on an official visit to the Book Fair that coincided with my own “official visit”.