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PETER SALMON will be your masterclass tutor. Gareth is CEO and co-founder of Authoright and Clink Street Publishing, which focuses on publishing and promoting new and unknown authors. He has been an innovator in the self publishing sector for the past fifteen years.

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Before moving into publishing, Gareth had qualified and worked as a lawyer in London. It was during this time that he wrote his first novel and approached several agents all of whom rejected the book as being 'not marketable'. Gareth self published his book in 2005 and it went on to be a bestseller, being covered by the mainstream media in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. He was then offered representation by several of the agents that had previously rejected him - he went on to be represented as an author by one of London's leading literary agencies.  

In his capacity as CEO of Authoright, he has been engaged as a consultant by some of the leading literary agents in both London and New York including The Writer's House, the oldest literary agency in the USA. He has also worked closely with agents when programming events and lectures for conferences and global book fairs, such as The London Book Fair and The Frankfurt Book Fair. In 2013, Authoright was engaged by The London Book Fair to curate their first author-focused programming. At this time,. Gareth brought in agents to speak with unpublished authors for the first time in the Fair's history, it also included a live pitching session. 

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Agents from Curtis Brown, AM Heath, Janklow & Nesbitt, The Lownie Agency and Sheil Land have previously participated in Authoright events. 

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Peter is a writer and editor. His first novel, The Coffee Story (Sceptre, 2011), was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He has written frequently for Australian TV and radio, and for broadsheets including The Guardian and the Sydney Review of Books. The Blue News, his satirical column about books and publishing, was subsequently collected and published by Melbourne University Press as Uncorrected Proof (2005). He has received awards from the Arts Council of England and the Arts Council of Victoria, Australia, and has taught creative writing at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Liverpool John Moore’s University.

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