Headline to embark on second New Voices Roadshow

Headline’s PR team is going on tour with six of its debut authors to repeat the success of last year’s ‘New Voices Roadshow’. 

Described as “a step towards reaching professionals in the literary landscape outside of London” last year’s inaugural roadshow saw debut novelists Karen Hamilton, Guy Gunaratne, Nick Clark Windo, Phoebe Locke and Leo Carew toured to Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol to meet booksellers, bloggers, librarians and media. 

This year’s Roadshow kicks off on Tuesday 22nd January and will be travelling to Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bath, continuing the aim of reaching industry professionals and bloggers in regions outside of London. 

Attending a run of informal evening events, where readers will have the chance to meet the authors personally and learn about their books over drinks, this year’s six debut authors chosen for the tour are: Blood Orange author Harriet Tyce; Guardian columnist Rhik Samadder; debut thriller writer Dominic Nolan; author of The Girl in the Letter, Emily Gunnis; Tramp Press publisher Sarah Davis Goff; and actor, writer and composer Richard Lumsden.

The tour will culminate in a Rooftop Bookclub event at Hachette’s Carmelite House on the 30th January, with all six authors in conversation with Hannah Beckerman.

Georgina Moore, communications director at Headline, said: "We are embarking on the Roadshow again as last year saw so many ongoing benefits for the authors. They forged a sense of community amongst themselves which really helped with debut nerves and we saw confidence blossoming as the tour went on and the authors realised how approachable and genuinely passionate bloggers and booksellers are about books, and how much meeting authors means to them. It really helped the authors launch their social media platforms too, with the buzz around the events and the feedback on Twitter from the bloggers and booksellers."