Pan Macmillan is the latest publisher to start offering creative writing tutoring. It will begin running events, called Notebook Sessions, later this month.

Picador editor Francesca Main and journalist and former literary editor Suzi Feay will lead the first session, billed as a "gentle introduction to creative writing", and...

Picador has acquired a debut novel, Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love, after editorial director Francesca Main met the author Sarah Butler at a dinner party.

Main bought world rights in the novel and one other in a two-book deal direct from the author, who is now represented by Andrew Kidd at Aitken Alexander. Picador...

Simon & Schuster senior commissioning editor Francesca Main is leaving the publisher to become editorial director at Picador.

She will join on 26th September and will acquire commercial literary fiction for the list. Picador publisher Paul Baggaley said: "Francesca will focus on the core areas of Picador’s publishing,...