Rising Stars 2018
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Syima Aslam
Bradford Literature Festival Founder and director
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Katie Barnes-Wallis
Mills & Boon Marketing manager
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Fionnuala Barrett
HarperCollins Audio Senior audio editor
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Sanchita Basu de Sarkar
Children’s Bookshop, Muswell Hill Owner
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Francesca Best
Transworld Editorial director
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Ain Deheb Bensenouci
Epigeum (OUP)/Society of Young Publishers Senior academic partnerships manager/chair
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Niriksha Bharadia
Faber Marketing executive
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Katie Brown
Trapeze Commissioning editor
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Helen Caunce
Palgrave Macmillan Senior commissioning editor
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Lisa Coen & Sarah Davis-Goff
Tramp Press Founders
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Steven Cooper
Waterstones Events co-ordinator
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Rosi Crawley
Walker Books Senior publicity manager
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Hannah Davies
Four Colman Getty Account director
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Amelia Derkatsch
Palgrave Macmillan Commissioning editor
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Patricia Dillana Kendall
Hachette Rights process lead
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Aimée Felone & David Stevens
Knights Of Co-founders
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Abbie Headon
Freelance Indie publishing professional
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Ellen Holgate
Bloomsbury Children’s Editorial director for fiction
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Sam Hutchinson
b small Director
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Andrew James
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Senior commissioning editor
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Jasper Joffe
Joffe Books Founder
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Sabah Khan
Avon Publicity manager
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Simon Mackay
Edinburgh International Book Festival Head of book sales & retail
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Caroline Maddison
Puffin & Ladybird Head of audience development
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Alexandra McNicoll
A M Heath Rights director
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Bethan Moore
Penguin Random House International sales manager
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Kate Nash
Kate Nash Literary Agency Agent
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Emma Paterson
RCW Agent
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Jonathan Paterson
Hodder, Headline, John Murray Press & Quercus Finance director
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Lucy Pearse
Macmillan Children's Books Senior fiction editor, 6+
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Carrie Plitt
Felicity Bryan Associates Agent
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Isabel Prodger
Harper NonFiction Senior publicity manager
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Gavin Read
Foyles Digital marketing and communications manager
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Alex Reads, Raifa Rafiq & Derek Owusu
Mostly Lit Podcasters
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Marilia Savvides
PFD Agent
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Ellie Steel
Harvill Secker Senior editor
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Alison Tarrant
School Library Association Director
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Mel Taylor-Bessent
Authorfy Founder
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Jacques Testard
Fitzcarraldo Editions Founder
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Lucy Warburton
White Lion Commissioning editor