What Authors and Creators Can Learn From Each Other

About this episode

Matt & Lauren discuss insights gained from attending the London Book Fair and Sponsor Games.

In this episode, Matt & Lauren reflect on their recent trips to two dramatically different events: London Book Fair and Sponsor Games. One is an international event attended by over 33,000 publishing industry professionals from around the world; the other is an intimate, interactive gathering of content entrepreneurs dedicated to learning how to secure brand deals and sponsorships. Attending these two events back-to-back highlighted the overlap and discrepancies between two types of creat...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Briel, Lauren Vassallo

Topics covered

• publishing
• content creation
• brand deals
• sponsorship
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• authors
• creators
• publishing industry
• content entrepreneurs
• sponsorships

Mentioned in this episode

Places: London

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