How to Get Published Workshop

 By Caroline Corcoran and Caroline Hulse   

So, you’ve finally finished your manuscript. Now what? Getting a book deal can feel like an opaque, intimidating process, but it doesn’t have to be. This workshop will demystify the industry and help you get your work in front of the right people. From perfecting your submission and crafting a compelling synopsis, to approaching an agent and choosing the right publisher, we can offer practical guidance and tried and tested strategies for negotiating this next phase of your career.  

We’ll take in publishing trends, popular myths, reframing rejection and decoding the language of deals. We’ll also include a Q&A so we can tailor our advice to suit your needs, whatever stage you’re at. This workshop is aimed at both non-fiction and fiction writers.  

Caroline Corcoran is an internationally published Sunday Times bestselling author whose work has been translated into multiple foreign languages and sold around the world. Caroline’s debut Through the Wall was followed by The Baby Group in 2021, Five Days Missing in 2022, What Happened on Floor 34? in 2023, TINY DAGGERS in 2025 and THE NEXT WOMAN, which came out this March. 

Caroline’s books are marketed as psychological thrillers or ‘domestic noir’ but they are also very much books about the female experience, tackling big themes such as infertility, domestic violence, work and its role in our lives, female friendship, new motherhood, sexual assault and mental health.  

Prior to writing novels, Caroline was a journalist, working for Stylist, Grazia, Marie Claire, the Telegraph, the Independent, the Mirror, the Guardian and many of the other biggest newspapers, magazines and websites in the country. If you speak to her for longer than three minutes, she will tell you about the time she interviewed Beyonce. Now, her interviewees take on a more literary form as she is a regular chair of book events and panels so that most of the time that isn’t spent writing her own books is spent reading other people’s. 

Caroline Hulse lives in Manchester and has always lived in the area, except for when she studied English at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of four book club fiction novels under her full name: Reasonable People, All the Fun of the Fair, Like a House on Fire and The Adults.  Under the name CE Hulse, her debut crime novel is Vivian Dies Again. 

Her books have been published in fourteen languages and optioned for television. She worked in HR for seventeen years and wrote books at night, never thinking writing could be a real job. She was amazed when, in 2017, she got offered a book deal and was able to write for a living — a job she could do in pyjamas with a dog at her feet. The dream! Or so she thought.