An NZSA Auckland Branch Event
Friday 12 February
5.30pm for 6.15pm start
The Coffee Club, High Street
We are launching into our theme for 2021 for our first meeting of the year!
Come along and hear from Penguin Random House publisher, Harriet Allan, and High Spot Literary agents, Vicki Marsdon and Nadine Rubin Nathan. We will be discussing the road to success, the destination, your travelling companions, possible roadblocks, and more!
NEW MEETEING LOCATION!
Our February meeting will be held in The Coffee Club, 42 High Street, Auckland CBD (on the edge of Freyberg Square) – they are staying open late just for us!
We will no longer be taking a koha but instead encourage everyone to buy drink and food which suits your budget and dietary requirements. Please support their business as they are allowing us to use the space for no cost.
We will be gathering from 5.30pm to allow people to mingle and order, and then will begin the meeting at 6.15pm as normal. Parking is available just up the road in the Victoria St carpark and The Coffee Club is an easy walk from the train or ferry.
Our February Guests
Harriet Allan has been working for Penguin Random House and its earlier incarnations for over thirty years. She publishes many of New Zealand’s pre-eminent writers, including Fiona Kidman, Owen Marshall, Witi Ihimaera and Charlotte Grimshaw, among numerous others who regularly feature on the New Zealand bestseller list. She lost count, after reaching twenty, of the number of award-winning books she has published, but over the years her authors have won the New Zealand Book Awards, the Montana Book Awards, the New Zealand Post Awards and the Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and several have been shortlisted for the prestigious Frank O’Connor Award. She publishes both literary and commercial fiction under the imprints of Penguin, Vintage and Black Swan. She also publishes Young Adult fiction.
High Spot Literary is a full-service agency, co-founded by literary agents Vicki Marsdon and Nadine Rubin Nathan providing traditional literary agent services with a broader marketing and social media eye. Among the authors they represent are some Auckland branch members! “Working individually or as a team, we ensure that each author has every advantage at all stages of the publishing process and beyond,” they say.
Vicki Marson has worked in the publishing industry for over 30 years. She started her career in the sales and marketing department of Heinemann Education before taking on the role of Educational Publisher. She developed the successful children’s list at Reed Publishing NZ, where she produced many award-winning books before working as Children’s Publisher at Penguin and then Associate Publisher at Harper Collins NZ. At High Spot Literary she continues to pursue her interest in working with talented authors across a range of genres – in particular thought-provoking commercial fiction, high quality non-fiction, children’s picture books, middle grade and YA fiction.
Nadine Rubin Nathan has over 20 years of experience in publishing. She was editor in chief of ELLE in South Africa, an editor at Harper’s Bazaar and the New York Post in New York and a senior book editor at Assouline Publishing in New York. Nadine has written two travel guides, one children’s book, and collaborated on photography books. She has a MA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. At High Spot Nadine represents authors of high-quality literary and commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction and visual ‘coffee table’ books, all with international appeal.