Thursday 11th March from 13.00 GMT until 14.00 GMT Founder of Oxford Literary Consultancy and Rich Writer Poor Writer, Former Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Oxford University and Literature Adviser for The Arts Council of England your host for this call is Stephanie Hale.

Writers are sometimes told their work is ‘unpublishable’ but go on to prove that this just isn’t true! Not only this, but their books are such a massive success that they sell millions of copies and top the bestseller charts. And ~ surprise, surprise ~ the same publishers who rejected them in the first place, are suddenly desperate to sign them up.

Tales of literary rejection are the stuff of myth and legend. So consider a handful of these tales and take heart:

Leslie-Ann Bosher is the author of To The Manor Drawn. In this scond of a 2-part interview Jo Parfitt talks to her about hthe process of promoting her book and finding a publisher. Find out more about the book and author at www.leslieannbosher.com

The legendary bookseller, E. Haldeman-Julius was one of the biggest publishing sensations of all time. He sold over a 100 million books during the 1920s – which is an eye-watering amount of sales by anyone’s standards.

In all, he published around 2,000 titles as part of a series called Little Blue Books. What’s particularly interesting is that all the books were packaged in a similar way. They all had blue covers and there was little to distinguish them.

If you are taking a holiday to an exotic and tropical location the common wisdom is to visit your doctor to get inoculated against various illnesses and diseases. You don’t wait to catch yellow fever or typhoid, you get inoculated against them. In the