LONDON WRITERS’ CLUB LIVE WITH an AGENT
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Join us at our LWC LIVE MONTHLY ONLINE EVENT. The live Zoom events are a friendly chat with a leading literary agent and Jacq Burns.
24 March 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Clara Heathcock, Hodder
Hodder & Stoughton is a major publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups. They publish a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles and are renowned for passion, quality and delivering bestselling books in many different formats.
Clara Heathcock is Commissioning Editor for fiction at Hodder & Stoughton. She works across genres, with a focus on novels that centre on women’s lives. Her role is a newly added one at Hodder Fiction, with the team expanding due to exceptional growth, specifically in the romance genre. Previously she worked for Penguin, where she worked on graphic novels, and science fiction and fantasy books.
Jacq Burns was commissioning editor at Random House & Editorial Director at Harper Collins where she edited classics such as Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus, Who Moved My Cheese, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Toddler Taming – which have sold millions of copies.
She is the author of Write a Bestseller, published by Hodder, and a bestselling series of successful books for Random House, under a pseudonym. Jacq has also ghostwritten a number of well-known titles, co-founder of The London Writers Club and is Head Judge for the Business Book Awards. She is also a literary agent for authors.
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2026 Events – live on zoom with Jacq Burns and a guest agent or author.
24 March, 6-7pm – Clara Heathcock, Commissioning editor of fiction at Hodder. Usually we talk to agents but tonight we go straight to the publisher to find out what they really want from an author and how they work with agents once your book is pitched to them.
21 April, 6-7pm – Mithu Storoni, author of Hyper Efficient, winner of Business Book of the Year 2025
28 April, 6-7pm – Pitch event with Jacq Burns, agent and founder of London Writers’ Club. I’ll be asking are you ready to pitch and working through a checklist of all the things you MUST do before pitch. We will also workshop your one sentence pitch and give top tops for perfecting your synopsis.