SYP London Speaker Meeting

For anyone interested to the SYP London Speaker Meeting tonight. http://ping.fm/OU6s0

London Speaker Meeting: Author Showcase

Date: 25 November 2009
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Place: Gallery at Foyles
Contact nicki@thesyp.org.uk for more information

Price for members: £FREE
Price for non-members: £07.00

While the SYP may not make a charge for this event, the venue(s) concerned may do so at their discretion. Prices where known will be included with details of the event

We are pleased to announce the penultimate London speaker meeting in our 60th year: a showcase of some of the most entertaining and talented authors today. Our panel will consist of award winning authors across fiction, non-fiction, and childrens publishing.

Speakers confirmed:

  RJ Ellory is the author of seven previous novels including the bestselling 
  A Quiet Belief in Angels, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club selection 
  in 2008 and was shortlisted for the American Barry Award for Best British 
  Crime Fiction, the Quebec Booksellers' Prize, The Nouvel Observateur Crime 
  Fiction Prize and the 7th Prix Du Polar Award in the same year. His other 
  novels have been translated into nineteen additional languages and have 
  been shortlisted for numerous awards.

 Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children's publishing and before that he was
 a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. His books have been shortlisted for 
 many awards, including The Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Blue Peter 
 Book Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Blood Red, 
 Snow White - a mixture of fairy tale, spy thriller and love story set during the Russian 
 Revolution, was shortlisted for the Costa Award. 

Christopher Lloyd graduated from Cambridge in 1991 with a double first-class degree in History. He then became a graduate trainee journalist on The Sunday Times newspaper.  After two years as a news reporter, Christopher Lloyd began a new column in The Sunday  Times Review section called Answers. In 1993, Lloyd was appointed The Sunday Times  Innovation Editor, with his own 3-page section of the paper. A year later he became Technology Correspondent for The Sunday Times and won the 1994 Texaco award for Science Journalist of the Year. After five years with The Sunday Times Christopher moved into the management of News International. In 1996 he launched the first Internet edition of The Sunday Times as its Internet editor. In January 2001, Lloyd was recruited to become chief executive of Immersive Education, an education software publishing company based in Oxford.  He grew the company from its R&D phase with zero revenue to sales of in excess of ₤3 million. In 2006 he left to spend time travelling around Europe with his wife and two children. The time spent travelling around Europe inspired him to come up with the concept of his bookWhat on Earth Happened? Christopher is a regular columnist for Resurgence Magazine on a range of environmental, political and lifestyle topics. Christopher Lloyd now divides his time between writing books and delivering interactive lectures / workshops to schools, societies, literary festivals and other organisations.

Books written by these authors will be on sale after the event.