ANOTHER fantastic week! Valued friends - even more writing tips and info - relaxing venue. Have enjoyed all the speakers. Please keep up the e-publishing, it's been great - very inspired."
ANOTHER fantastic week! Valued friends - even more writing tips and info - relaxing venue. Have enjoyed all the speakers. Please keep up the e-publishing, it's been great - very inspired."
Curtis will deliver a whistle-stop talk on his life in animation, film and publishing. Touching upon his work on Wallace & Gromit, Bob the Builder and Frankenstein's Cat, the highlight of this talk is Curtis' introduction to his Wereworld series of fantasy novels, the pinnacle of a truly eclectic creative career. Warning: this talk contains a short, hairy crayonboy making a fool of himself.
Curtis is the author/illustrator of numerous picture books and creator/designer of many well known, award winning children's series (Bob the Builder, Frankenstein's Cat, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion). More recently he has been concentrating on writing the acclaimed fantasy horror series of novels, Wereworld, for Puffin, the first of which was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Prize.
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Zoe Lambert is a Manchester based writer. She has an MA in Creative Writing at UEA and a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University. She lectures on the creative writing MA at the Universities of Bolton and Edge Hill. She was the founder of cult Manchester literature night, Verberate, and is a member of the board of the Northwest Short Story Network. She is founder of the cult Manchester spoken word night, Verberate, and is an active campaigner for the rights of asylum seekers. Her fiction has appeared in Lamport Court, Bracket and The Independent on Sunday. A sequence of her stories first appeared in Ellipsis 2 (Comma, 2006). Her first full collection The War Tour has recently been published.
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I've written 15 novels; these include the bestsellers Tulip Fever and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, now made into a movie with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. I've adapted several of my novels for TV - Close Relations, Final Demand, Seesaw, Stolen and others. I've also written two books of short stories and a stage play. My other film and TV adaptations include Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate, The Diary of Anne Frank and the film of Pride and Prejudice, with Keira Knightley, which was nominated for a BAFTA. My latest novel is Heartbreak Hotel, which I'm adapting as a series for the BBC. I live in London.
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Syd Moore talks about the evolution of The Drowning Pool and Witch Hunt and using primary source material to structure narrative.
Syd is the author of The Drowning Pool and Witch Hunt. She is currently working on her third book, The Sacrifice.
Before embarking on a career in education, Syd worked extensively in the publishing industry, fronting Channel 4's book programme, Pulp. She was the founding editor of Level 4, an arts and culture magazine, and is co-creator of Super Strumps, the game that reclaims female stereotypes. When she is not writing Syd works for Metal Culture, an arts organisation, promoting arts and cultural events and developing literature programmes.
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James Moran is a British screenwriter for TV and film, whose work includes the films Severance, Cockneys Vs Zombies, and Tower Block, and episodes of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Primeval, Spooks: Code 9, and Crusoe. He also wrote and part-directed Girl Number 9, a 6-part web thriller starring Gareth David-Lloyd and Tracy-Ann Oberman, which is now free to watch at www.canyousaveher.com. James has written several short stories, a Highlander audio play, and directed a short film starring Arthur Darvill and Hannah Tointon, which will tour film festivals throughout 2013.
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Michael has run a number of very successful workshops at Swanwick on crime investigation and policing from a writer’s perspective. He was a police officer in Hong Kong, London, Thames Valley and ended up as chief constable in Bedfordshire. One of has ambitions on retiring was to become a writer and he has published two books on police and crime, one an academic study of policing, the other the result of running a workshop at Swanwick. He also has two e-published thrillers on Amazon, which he preferred to the alternative of holding a publisher hostage.
He will be reflecting on thirty 'odd' (in both senses) years of policing, providing proof absolute that, as always, truth is so much stranger than fiction ever could be.
A police officer from the age of 19 serving in the Royal Hong Kong Police, The Met, Surrey, Thames Valley and Bedfordshire, retiring as chief constable. Since retiring he has concentrated on writing. Changing Policing - Revolution not Evolution was published in 2002 and The Crime Writer's Guide to Police Practice and Procedure (publisher Robert Hale) in 2009. He has written two crime thrillers which can be tasted on his website.
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Jon Wood has worked in UK trade publishing for 19 years. He started his career working in the field sales force for Hodder and Stoughton before transferring to editorial in 1998 as an acquirer of crime and thrillers. It was there that he bought his first major bestseller, Harlan Coben.
He moved to Orion Books in 2000 as Editorial Director and has been there ever since. He now acts as Deputy Publisher for the group as well as managing Gollancz, the Science Fiction and Fantasy list.
His authors now include Ian Rankin, Kate Mosse, Harlan Coben, Robert Crais, R J Ellory and Denise Mina.
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Seen by many as the highlight of the Swanwick week, our after-dinner speakers are always eagerly anticipated. There is a different speaker each evening at 8:30pm in the Main Conference Hall, followed by book sales and signings where appropriate. Previous years' speakers have included:
"One huge THANK YOU from me for making Swanwick such a wonderful, lovely, happy experience. I loved every minute of it, was overwhelmed by the feeling of friendship - and simply stunned by the fun of it all."
(Christina Jones, Speaker 2010)
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