The Honest Authors' Podcast

S8E04 - With special guest, foreign rights agent Tanja Goossens

The Honest Authors' Podcast

Show Notes

Bestselling thriller writers Gillian McAllister and Holly Seddon talk to brilliant Curtis Brown foreign rights agent, Tanja Goossens, about what foreign publishers are looking for, how the whole foreign rights side of publishing works and what really happens at book fairs.

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