Authors need to 'engage' in the publishing process | The Bookseller

The role of authors engaged in the publishing process was a recurring theme throughout the day, particularly because of the "cut through%u201D authors need to have with today%u2019s busy, media-saturated consumer. In a panel of authors and agents, Curtis BrownSee Curtis Brown listing agent Sheila Crowley said that authors needed to engage with audiences, partially because of shifts in reading and what people were looking at on their smart phones. She said: "[Authors and publishers] are in competition like never before. We are competing against a lot of new, great drama - Neflix, Amazon Prime, etc - there are so many more ways of people accessing great stories."