Byte the Book

01/10/2026

23/09/2026

We had a wonderful evening at the Century Club for our expert panel: Tome Truths: What Do Authors Need to Know About Publishing? Sponsored by Kevin Anderson & Associates 📚 We had an brilliant evening of networking and learning from our experts on the panel as they explored what authors need to know about publishing

Our panel of experts were professionals from across the industry, including our director and founder, Justine Solomons as panel chair and our great line-up of speakers: Clare Christian, Director of Operations at Kevin Anderson & Associates, Cat Black, artist and author of Feast, and Abi Fellows, Literary Agent at DHH Literary.

Our knowledgable panel discussed and answered various questions around publishing, ranging from why some authors might prefer indie publishing over traditional publishing, what role agents play in the career of an author, whether author social media followings are important to publishing houses and much more.

Special thanks to Daniel Solomons for taking the event photos for us. 📸

Huge thank you to Kevin Anderson & Associates (Kevin Anderson & Associates) for sponsoring our event and to Century Club for hosting us!

      

21/09/2026

✨ Are you ready for our expert panel at Century Club tomorrow? ✨

Join us for Tome Truths: What Do Authors Need to Know About Publishing?

Publishing can be bewildering for authors. Why does it take so long for agents to come to you when you submit?  Do you need an agent? Why does it take so long to get a book out once the contract has been agreed? What really goes on with your book in a publishing house? How much does it cost to publish a book? Is self publishing a bad idea? What does it mean when publishers talk about rights? Join us as we discuss these topics and more. 

‼️ Once you’ve registered, please feel free to submit your own questions for our panel to discuss. ‼️

Byte the Book’s Justine Solomons will chair this event, joined by:
🔴 Clare Christian - Director of Operations at Kevin Anderson & Associates
⚪️ Cat Black - artist and author of Feast (Dialogue Books, 2026)
🔵 Abi Fellows - Literary Agent at DHH Literary.

As well as the discussion, there will be plenty of time to network with the great the good of publishing and to meet other authors.

This event will be at The Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 6LQ

Entrance is free for Byte the Book and Century Club members. Tickets are £30 plus booking fee and VAT for everyone else. Booking is essential.

If you’re not already a member of Byte The Book you can join us via our website!

09/09/2026

Will you join us in September for our next expert-led panel? 📚 Grab your tickest to ‘Tome Truths: What Do Authors Need to Know About Publishing?’ on September 22nd 2026 📚

Publishing can be bewildering for authors. Why does it take so long for agents to come to you when you submit?  Do you need an agent? Why does it take so long to get a book out once the contract has been agreed? What really goes on with your book in a publishing house? How much does it cost to publish a book? Is self publishing a bad idea? What does it mean when publishers talk about rights? Join us as we discuss these topics and more.  Feel free, once you’ve registered, to submit your own questions.

Byte the Book’s Justine Solomons will chair this event, joined by:
🔷 Clare Christian, Director of Operations at Kevin Anderson & Associates
🔷 Catherine Kurtz, artist and author of Feast (Dialogue Books, 2026)
🔷 Abi Fellows, Literary Agent at DHH Literary

As well our discussion they’ll be plenty of time to network with the great the good of publishing and to meet other authors.

This event will be at The Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 6LQ

✨ Entrance is free for Byte the Book and Century Club members. ✨

Tickets for non-members are £30 plus booking fee and VAT for everyone else. Booking is essential.

You can join us via the link in our bio!

We are very grateful to Kevin Anderson & Associates for sponsoring this event.

01/09/2026

Kinda chic to join Byte The Book! 📚

Here are some of our favourite parts about our brilliant Byte The Book community!

What do you find kinda chic about being a member of Byte the Book the Book?

*Shout out to all of our wonderful members, previous speakers, venue hosts, curious attendees, professionals across the book industry, and the supporters of Byte The Book*

     

26/08/2026

We cannot wait for our live panel in September at the Century Club! ✨ Join us for Tome Truths: What Do Authors Need to Know About Publishing?

Publishing can be bewildering for authors. Why does it take so long for agents to come to you when you submit?  Do you need an agent? Why does it take so long to get a book out once the contract has been agreed? What really goes on with your book in a publishing house? How much does it cost to publish a book? Is self publishing a bad idea? What does it mean when publishers talk about rights? Join us as we discuss these topics and more. 

‼️ Once you’ve registered, please feel free to submit your own questions for our panel to discuss. ‼️

Byte the Book’s Justine Solomons will chair this event, joined by:
🔴 Clare Christian - Director of Operations at Kevin Anderson & Associates
⚪️ Cat Black - artist and author of Feast (Dialogue Books, 2026)
🔵 Abi Fellows - Literary Agent at DHH Literary.

As well as the discussion, there will be plenty of time to network with the great the good of publishing and to meet other authors.

This event will be at The Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 6LQ

Entrance is free for Byte the Book and Century Club members. Tickets are £30 plus booking fee and VAT for everyone else. Booking is essential.

If you’re not already a member of Byte The Book you can join us via our website!

20/08/2026

✨ Have you booked your ticket for our Agent Tables in September or November 2026?✨

Our Agent Tables are a fantastic opportunity to meet literary agents! Each author will meet with two agents privately on the day to discuss their work. These private sessions will last fifteen minutes each, and the agents will have read your work beforehand. For the remaining time, the authors will have the opportunity to take part in discussions about their publishing experiences with the other participants.

Our next session will be on September 16th 2026. We ask that you submit your work to us by WEDNESDAY, 28th AUGUST 2026 to give us time to send it to the agents.

This event is sponsored by HW Fisher.

Tickets are £100* for Byte The Book members and £150* for non-members.

If you’re not already a member you can join Byte The Book via this link in our ✨

**Ticket price excludes booking fee and VAT.

🚨FOR FULL SUBMISSION DETAILS 🚨 Please follow the link to the event 🔗

12/08/2026

Have you missed any of our live Byte The Book panels in London? recently? ✨ Don’t worry, we record the live audio from each panel and these can be found linked at the start of each event report on our website!

Listen to this brilliant audio tidbit from one of our recent LIVE event at !

✨ The speaker in this clip is Hannah Chukwu, Publishing director of Dialogue Books as she shares her experiences of the editorial process while working in a traditional publishing house. This insight was shared at our recent in-person panel event: Byte the Book x The London Library: How To Submit and What Happens Next?

You can find the event report and full recording from the live panel on our website 🔗

Interested in more events like this?

By joining our community, you get to enjoy free entry to a range of insightful virtual and in-person events, members-only surgeries, workshops, free tickets to book fairs, and much more! We have lots of events coming up in September ✨

You can our community today via the link in our 🔗

27/07/2026

✨ Are you ready our next season of events? ✨ Join us for a very busy September!

Publishing can be bewildering for authors. Why does it take so long for agents to come to you when you submit?  Do you need an agent? Why does it take so long to get a book out once the contract has been agreed? What really goes on with your book in a publishing house? How much does it cost to publish a book? Is self publishing a bad idea? What does it mean when publishers talk about rights? Join us as we discuss these topics and more.  Feel free, once you’ve registered, to submit your own questions.

As well as the discussion they’ll be plenty of time to network with the great the good of publishing and to meet other authors.
This event will be at The Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 6LQ

Entrance is free for Byte the Book and Century Club members. Tickets are £30 plus booking fee and VAT for everyone else. Booking is essential.

If you’re not already a member of Byte The Book you can join us via our website!

We are very grateful to Kevin Anderson & Associates for sponsoring this event.




13/07/2026

We had a fantastic evening at The London Library for our final event in July!

Our panel of experts came together for our event: Byte the Book x The London Library: How To Submit and What Happens Next? 📚 We had an wonderful evening of networking and hearing expert insights from our brilliant panel as they shared the different ways aspiring authors can submit their work and what happens after they’ve shared their submissions with agents and publishers.

Last week, we were joined by a panel of experts including our director and founder, Justine Solomons as the chair of our panel and our incredible speakers: Hannah Chukwu (Hannah Chukwu) - multi-award-winning Publishing Director at Dialogue Publishing, Scott Pack - publishing polymath, and Julia Silk (Julia Silk) - Literary Agent at Greyhound Literary💥 Our panel of industry experts demystified the publishing industry, shared advice on the ways writers might share work with the industry, build their author platforms, shared insights into how publishing houses function and offered tips on how our attendees might find the right spaces for their work and connect with agents or publishers.

Special thanks to and Daniel Solomons for taking event photos for us!

A huge thank you to The London Library for hosting us ✨