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Traditionally the manuscript submission process has been cloaked in mystery. “No writer really understands how their submissions are evaluated,” explains literary agent Peter Cox. “It often takes many weeks for writers to get a response. And a rejection slip explains nothing.” Last year, Litopia made history when it opened up the submissions process to public scrutiny. Every Sunday, Peter reviewed his submission pile on Facebook Live; while the authors themselves watched and even commented in the chat room. Watch live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RealLitopia Or YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmbrM2ciaxb4hHQFfnSeOpg/live And Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/litopia Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

Our usual eclectic round-up of news and back-fence talk from the gossipy worlds of publishing and the law, hosted by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.  This is the audio-only version of Litopia's show that's broadcast live, in living colo[u]r on our Facebook page.  Listen to the audio here, or watch the video there: https://www.facebook.com/RealLitopia Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

Start a story that never began and won’t end, spreading like chill to everything made of words, the kind of release that comes from depriving your most often used senses and engaging the ones you neglected. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

Our usual eclectic round-up of news and back-fence talk from the gossipy worlds of publishing and the law, hosted by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.  This is the audio-only version of Litopia's show that's broadcast live, in living colo[u]r on our Facebook page.  Listen to the audio here, or watch the video there: https://www.facebook.com/RealLitopia Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

A soldier reflects on a just-finished mission to systematically round up and expel those left behind in the small village of Khirbet Khizeh. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

From King David (aka Kid Bethlehem) to Meyer Lansky via Bugsy Siegel, and the many pulled in their wake, a novel that charges from Las Vegas to Jerusalem, capitals of imaginary kingdoms. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy – author and translator of novels from Hebrew to English, including Dror Burstein’s Netanya – with digressions into Orly Castel-Bloom, Yaakov Shabtai, different kinds of literary culture and the novels they produce. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

Is it a novel? Memoirs? A book of geology? Anthropology? Marine Biology? Yes yes yes. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

Permanent winter in a desert climate, a dentist with no face, a woman finding material wealth in the midst of poverty, a governmental minister whose full time job is to attend funerals – all this and much, much, much more.   Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

The man who keeps surviving terrorist attacks and the person who is determined to finish him off once and for all square off in this chapter by chapter account of what goes wrong when you add the human element to a simple ideological cataclysm.   Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

A heavyweight tale in featherweight prose. A beautiful story about a boy who slips away into adulthood. A ghost story about a person who’s still alive.   Burning Books is back with a brand new season! Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

Part One of the Doyle’s The Last Roundup charts the raising, rising and falling of Henry Smart, scamp of Dublin, caught up in the machine of so-called national so-called liberation. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/  

The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

A sliver of a book unfolds as a triptych, brilliant and beautiful, the subtlest of writing making the greatest of waves. Featuring Walter Benjamin.. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/