​The School for the Creative Industries is pleased to announce a new series of talks by professional writers.

Throughout the series you’ll learn about:

• completing a manuscript and submitting it;
• literary agents;
• publishers;
• book, television, and radio contracts;
• promotion and publicity;
• public engagement activities;
• and writing-related employment, including freelancing and teaching​

Amanda Brooke

Author of 13 novels published by HarperCollins, including the bestsellers Yesterday’s Sun
(selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club), The Affair, A Good Liar, The Wife Next Door,
and Night Fall. The novellas If I Should Go and The Keeper of Secrets (also HarperCollins) were
published as e-books only. Has given talks and been on author panels across the northwest and
appeared at Perfect Crime Writing Festival in Liverpool, Wirral Bookfest, and Bookmark Literary
Festival in Oldham. Represented by the literary agent Luigi Bonomi at LBA Books.