CANON TALES is the new and very different style of event that packed out London’s Cochrane Theatre in July 2008 and is now back for chapter two at this year’s London Book Fair! The unique format aims to promote publishing as the richly creative industry that it is, blending fantastic speakers with rapid visuals to remind us that creativity can exists at all levels of the publishing process.
We are inviting 12 speakers to each present their own 'canon tale' – a personal, visual retelling about creativity that inspires them or stories relating to current or past projects.
Speakers include:
Alison Baverstock, Publishing MA, Kingston University and author of How to Market Your Book
Roger Bratchell, Marketing Director, Random House, CCV
Jamie Byng, Managing Director, Canongate
Peter Collingridge, Managing Director, Apt Studio (blog: Times Emit)
Helen Conford, Editorial Director, Penguin Press
Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, journalist, blogger, and co-editor of boingboing.net
Joe Dunthorne, Aisle16 poet and author, Submarine (www.joedunthorne.com)
Jon Gray, Cover Designer, Gray318
Hannah Griffiths, Director of Paperbacks, Faber & Faber
Peggy Vance, Category Publishers, Dorling Kindersley
Reg Wright, Director, Hothouse Fiction
