Imagine this. You have a letter of acceptance in your hand, and one of rejection… which one are you going to brood over? If you’re like most writers, you’ll take the rejection to heart, while …
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Noddy Experiences Relativistic Effects
It’s our Halloween show, and the most horrifying item on tonight’s agenda is unfortunately all too corporeal: one publisher has summarily announced their new e-book royalty rate will be a meagre 20% – not of …
Read more »Love Me Like A Reptile
“When love is not madness, it is not love” wrote the C17th Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca – although he might easily been referring to tonight’s Litopia After Dark, in which we learn …
Read more »Dead Authors Society
Things have come to a pretty pass when publishers prefer to issue the minor works of dead authors rather the current work of living writers. But that’s what’s happening in today’s muddled publishing scene: the …
Read more »Smells Like Books
The first live LITOPIA AFTER DARK of the season returns with the humongously diverse smorgasbord of ingredients that you’ve come to expect and (we hope) love! Our vintage panel comprises Donna Ballman, Eve Harvey, Dave …
Read more »Face-To-Face: This Time It’s Personal!
London’s Poetry Café was never more vibrantly electric this summer than when it hosted our first two live Litopia After Darks: Face-To-Face.
And tonight, we’re delighted to bring you – complete, unedited but by no means …
Cryptomnesia
Both Mark Twain and Helen Keller suffered from cryptomnesia. At various times of their lives, they presented writing they clearly believed was original, and were subsequently mortified to be accused of appropriating others’ work. It …
Read more »Googazon
It’s another inimitable blend of the profound and the profoundly peculiar this evening: only on Litopia After Dark can we move transcendentally from the works of John Berger to the World Gravy-Wrestling Championships without missing …
Read more »The Multi-Branded Victorian Cliche Book Swap Shop
It’s author branding that gets the limelight tonight – one of the hottest topics in publishing at the moment, but what does it really mean? Can an author really be a brand – and how …
Read more »Zom-pocalypse!
What movies do astronauts on the international space station watch? What do George W. Bush, Roy Orbison and Darth Vader all have in common? Why are cops in one North American city arresting zombies? And …
Read more »Zombies, Sea Monsters & Mummies
It’s a truly vintage show tonight: far better entertainment than anything you’ll find on the box these format-ridden days. With a panel that encompasses marketing guru Jamie Mollart, Litoon’s creator Richard Howse, our regular panelists …
Read more »Secrets of the Slushpile
It’s no secret that the slushpile is a repository of all that’s bad about writing – a temporary resting place for the kind of material that furnishes agents and publishers with endless smug jokes at …
Read more »Mind Your Manners
Welcome, dear friends, to our weekly literary soirée! We’re worried about manners this evening – not the Emily Post variety, although heaven knows we need ‘em, but the trap that all creative souls can easily …
Read more »Kill That Adverb! Love That Trope!
It’s not surprising that writers often argue about words, but the sheer animosity that adverbs can sometimes provoke would shock even the most hardened WWF fan. Tonight on LITOPIA AFTER DARK we’re looking at adverbs …
Read more »Günther Und Wunderboner
HAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time?
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