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I’ve recently joined Media Parents to connect with new contacts and hopefully find my first welfare producing role for 2025, writes David Allberry.  I took advantage of Media Parents free CV advice for subscribers to help me create a new Welfare Producer CV so I can diversify my skills. Like many freelancers, it’s been a challenging few months, with a couple of projects falling through.  I know I’m not alone – it’s a difficult time for so many talented people in the industry.

Talent Exec David Allberry is transferring his experience to Welfare Producing too

I am an experienced Celebrity Talent Executive with over 20 years of success casting some of the UK’s biggest shows, including Celebrity Bear Hunt, Hunted, The Island with Bear Grylls, Soccer Aid, The Jump, and Scared of the Dark.  Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with high-profile talent, navigating complex personalities, and handling sensitive situations with care and discretion.

Over the years, I’ve realised that the parts of my job I enjoy the most often go beyond booking talent.  Whether it’s supporting a celebrity through bereavement, having honest conversations about consent and shared spaces, or offering reassurance during emotionally charged moments, I’ve naturally stepped into a welfare role – albeit uncredited.

On location with LLB on Celebrity Bear Hunt https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/10584/david-allberry

As the industry continues to evolve, I made the decision to upskill and diversify by formally moving into welfare producing.  My aim is to bring my well-honed people skills, active listening abilities, and deep industry knowledge to support the mental health and well-being of talent and crew alike.

To back up my experience with credentials, I’ve spent the last year building my qualifications. I’ve completed the CPCAB Level 2 Counselling Skills course and I’m currently studying Level 3 Applied Counselling Skills in Tonbridge, attending weekly classes.  This journey has given me valuable insights into empathy, boundaries, and emotional resilience – skills that are highly transferable to welfare producing.

I’m also a certified mental health first aider and volunteer as a listener for Samaritans, offering support to people in crisis.  From September, I plan to further deepen my expertise by studying a part-time PG Diploma in Counselling and Coaching, with the ultimate vision of providing specialist mental health support within the screen industries.

My ambition is to straddle both celebrity casting and welfare, using my experience and contacts to improve mental health support in the industry I love, and I feel I’m making good progress with the help of Media Parents.  I’m part of the Film and TV Welfare Association (FTVWA) working group, helping to shape the future of welfare practices across productions of all sizes.

Book David Allberry https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/10584/david-allberry

I still have a passion for casting big, noisy shows, but I’m equally excited about stepping into my first welfare producing role as my primary focus.  With my unique blend of industry experience, mental health training, and people-first approach, I’m confident I can be a valuable asset in supporting the well-being of talent and crew on productions.

If you’re looking for a welfare producer with deep industry knowledge, hands-on experience, and formal counselling training, I’d love to connect and explore how I can contribute to creating healthier, more supportive working environments in TV.

Contact David Allberry here, he is currently available.

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Saying no to Edgar Wright was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, writes Offline Editor Nick Lear.

Editor Nick Lear training in Manenberg, Cape Town

I’d edited the making of documentary for Hot Fuzz and I was offered the same for Scott Pilgrim. I remember pacing around the South Bank on the phone to his producer trying to explain why instead of taking this opportunity of a lifetime, I was moving to Mozambique.

At that stage I’d worked extremely hard to get to where I was – a year and a half as a runner, a couple more years in the machine room, all the while spending every evening and weekend learning how to use the Avid. It was four years before I got a chance to sit in that magical editor’s seat and I was thrown in at the deep end – editing a 90 minute David Gray concert. But I was ready.

Cut to a few years later and I ended up at TVC Soho on Great Pulteney Street where I started with music videos and commercials and moved onto broadcast & documentaries, like Secret World Of Magic for Sky One, The Real Hustle pilot for BBC Three & Bethlehem: No Room for Peace for ITV.

Offline Editor Nick Lear writes about turning down Edgar Wright, and what next

But over the years, my faith/justice journey made me realise I needed to make a more direct impact on the world. I was newly married and we travelled on public transport all the way from London to Mozambique where we ended up running a feeding program that served over 2000 a day. We had a lovely staff of 40 to manage, but they didn’t speak a word of English – talk about transferable skills, I don’t think I had any!

Nick Lear with his first child in Mozambique

When we started a family there, my other half was at home for the first year and I did the second, so that she could run a microfinance program for low income women. After that we juggled childcare between us – not that we were working full 9-5 days, you really couldn’t in that heat.

Things got too much for us in the end, but instead of coming home, we started working and living in a township in Cape Town called Manenberg where there was a gang fight every other week and an incredible amount of disadvantage and pain still left from Apartheid. I started a small film school there with a really talented DoP called Freddie Reed, which is still running under local leadership.

Editor Nick Lear and wife Cate after arriving in Mozambique

Eventually I came back to editing as the one thing I know how to do to make a living. Working remotely, I tapped into the US market, with documentaries for Discovery+, The Olympics and recently a film exec produced by Hillary Clinton. I also had a stint back in the UK in 2022 when editors were scarce (remember that!) and I joined the agency TOVS and worked on things like Chateaux DIY and My Floating Home for Channel 4.

Now we’re moving permanently back to the UK – to Glasgow in a couple of weeks – and I’d love to cut meaningful documentaries as well as broadcast, whether on my home Avid suite or the great post houses there. Time for a new adventure!

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/18753/nick-lear

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Diary of an out of work Production Manager 2025, by Michele Kimber aged 21+

January 2025

A new year and it seems some people are back to work (except me, oh and many many other freelancers).

After many cups of tea, went to computer and looked at jobs, except there wasn’t any.  Tidied flat. Looked at bank balance, nearly went back to bed again.

The days are fine but with nighttime arriving almost as soon as I’ve got up means that my motivation failed to get out of bed with me.

Cat happy that I stay in bed until he wants feeding which appears to be a lot.  He needs to get a job to pay for his food addiction, this appears to be non negotiable and I am the food provider.

The whole of January seems to be a repeat of the above.

Did not make it to Media Parents January Drinks. Must do better at Spring Drinks, Autumn ones were good.

Media Parents January Drinks in full swing. Join us for Spring Drinks on May 1st

February 2025

More PM jobs seem to be appearing, alas I no longer want or more importantly, am capable of going for long stints on location.

Found a couple of jobs that I thought I would be a perfect fit for.  Sent off my CV within minutes of jobs being advertised, refrained from putting “pick me, pick me” in my covering letter but just had to remember the advice that is given to young keen wannabe runners, send off your CV and forget about it.

Forgot the advice and kept checking emails.

The closing date for both jobs was Friday 14^th.  Monday 17^th at 9:07 exactly I got a rejection from one of the jobs saying that the job had already been filled.

Started looking at alternative careers.

I saw lots of people saying that people are needed in the NHS doing admin jobs etc, went online and started my research.  Saw what they were paying.

Started looking at jobs that were paying more but soon realised that even with some clever re-wording of my CV about my first aid courses I could never convince anyone that I was a qualified Nurse or above.

Got rejected from the 2^nd application.  On the plus side, at least they responded which I call a win. Cat still has a food addiction.

Tinx the Cat. Still unemployed.

March 2025

Started looking at “working from home sites” I could earn lots of dollars or even pounds if I pay up front, but decided that knowing my luck I would be rejected and paid to be rejected.

The weather was being kind so I did some gardening, slightly half heartedly, but it was nice not to be a slave to checking for jobs every hour (there seem to be lots more on Media Parents btw).

On Tuesday this week, I did my morning scroll of emails (well, on the hour, every hour) and suddenly I saw something I hadn’t seen for a long time.

AN EMAIL ASKING IF I WAS AVAILABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obviously I held back as best I could (15 minutes?)

By the afternoon, I’d been interviewed and got the job, it’s not a long contract, but it’s a JOB!

I started on Wednesday!!

The team are lovely, it’s going to be a graft with what needs to be done in a very short time, but am back on the bus and loving it!

Stay strong, jobs are coming in, they may not be the long contracts that people are used to, but they are coming in.

PS – cat update, he’s slightly cross his food consumption has been lessened by me not being at home pandering to his “I need food” wail,  he’s currently fast asleep on the bed. Belly fully, just not with as much as he was used to.

For those who know, Michele Kimber is in this shot somewhere. Meet her at Media Parents Spring Drinks

To contact Michele Kimber, who will be available in May, log in to Media Parents and click here.

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/18138/michele-kimber

Our next event is online on April 1st, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Your Bectu Unscripted branch is holding a live webinar about flexible working in TV to mark Mother’s Day. Media Parents’ Director Amy Walker will be chairing a panel of people who all have insight and experience of working flexibly in TV.

WHEN? Wednesday 26^th March, 1 pm – 2.15 pm

WHERE? Register here: https://bit.ly/3DvemVO

CONTENT: What are flexible working and job sharing? What are the pros and cons? How can freelancers make it work for them? Is it the answer to retaining talent, attracting new entrants, improving DEI, and preventing parents/carers (particularly female freelancers) leaving the industry mid career? How can we tackle the stigma and get the industry to embrace it more? How can we counter the motherhood penalty?

OVERVIEW: A BECTU Unscripted Union live event to mark International Women’s Day. Hosted by Amy Walker (Media Parents) with insights from Michelle Reynolds (Reeltime Media, and formerly Share My Telly Job), Vicky Carter (TV Consultant), and freelancers who’ve been there and done it (see below).

Amy Walker is Director of Media Parents, a freelance Talent Exec and Producer. Amy has worked flexibly through Media Parents as a jobsharing PD , a job split as SP, remotely for Bournemouth University, and remotely as an edit producer.

Michelle Reynolds – Reeltime Media (and formerly Share My Telly Job and BECTU Women’s Officer/founding member of UTVU branch), has extensive experience of flexible working/job sharing in scripted and scripted TV, helped set up BECTU Lives Behind The Lens study.

Viki Carter – TV Consultant, Head Of Production (BECTU UTVU committee member/Co-Chair), flexible/job share worker, has hired job sharers.

Lyndsey Hickford & Amy Gostling – job sharing PMs

Kath Pick – SP/PD in arts docs

The event is produced by Anna Coane, Series / Edit Producer

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3DvemVO

Our next event is online on April 1st, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Chances are you feel like a free night out at the moment?! We are offering two free tickets to the Leicester Square premiere of Guy Ritchie’s latest masterpiece with Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy, Paddy Considine… Fancy it?

Congratulations to PM / Producer Laura Rolf who is going out out!

"If I can't have a job I'll have a night out and a cocktail". Have a drink watching Helen Mirren in MobLand, Guy Ritchie's latest production. Cheers

Our next event is online on April 1st, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Join Media Parents Director Amy Walker as she digs into Development with some of the best… Guests include Candle Media’s Head of UK Development Miranda Peters and exRDF/ Electric Ray MD Meredith Chambers, discussing how to land indie meetings with your ideas, and how to approach a JV if that unicorn crosses your path.

Click here to sign up for a free ticket.

Meredith Chambers, Amy Walker and Miranda Peters - Media Parents In Development

miranda peters

Surviving 9/11 Exec Miranda Peters is Head of UK Development at Candle Media True Stories. The label, which was launched in 2023 by former ABC News chief James Goldston, hired Miranda Peters from Top Hat Productions. Peters credit list also includes the BBC’s Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret and Paramount+’s The Box.

meredith chambers

Meredith Chambers was until recently co-MD at RDF, and before that co-MD at Electric Ray, where he oversaw shows like  Million Pound Menu (BBC2 and Netflix), Class of ‘92:  Out of Their League (BBC One and Netflix), Alone at Home (C4), Call That Hard Work (BBC One) and Celebrity Cooking School (E4).

Prior to this Meredith was Creative Director of Twenty Twenty where he created international hit First Dates (C4) and other successful titles including The Hoarder Next Door (C4) and My Transexual Summer (C4).

Earlier in his career Meredith was Executive Editor at BBC Wales where he created award winning shows including the BAFTA winning documentary ‘Between Life and Death’, and Commissioning Editor for Documentaries at Channel 4 where he commissioned and oversaw flag ship series including Wife Swap, The Secret Millionaire and Cutting Edge.

amy walker

Media Parents Director Amy Walker will chair Media Parents In Development. She alternated her production career with spells of physical recovery and mental stimulation in development. Having worked in factual and docs as a director, PD, commissioned development exec, and showrunner, Amy moved into Talent Execing. After a spell in commissioning at Discovery, she went on to showrun a BAFTA-nominated series for Channel 4, followed by series 1 of a now longrunning drama doc streamer series for Arrow Media/ Discovery.

A diversity and flexible working champion, Amy set up Media Parents, a selective TV jobsite, networking and training organisation. She designed the website in 2010, and has since supported the return and retention of hundreds of experienced TV freelancers.

Click here to sign up for a free ticket.

Our next event is online on April 1st, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Join us on May 1st for Media Parents Spring Drinks in Central London. A good time will be had by all. See Media Parents watercooler for the sign up link and watch this space nearer the time for guestlist.

January Drinks: Heads of Production from Raw Cut and Strawberry Blond, Tina Lohmann and Jess Hamilton meeting Media Parents freelancers in the crowd

Huge thanks to Film+TV Charity for hosting the last ones, we had a great time and made some great connections. If you would like to see our gallery for a flavour of what goes on, go here: January Drinks or here: Autumn Drinks. Look forward to seeing you there!

Our next event is online on April 1st, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8^th, there is a clarion call to creatives from several of this year’s longlisted BAFTA films, writes Media Parents’ Director Amy Walker. If you haven’t heard the call yet, it urges mid career (and later) creatives (women particularly, caregivers, creatives of all genders) not to give up on their creative calling, difficult though that may be. If you are feeling stuck reading this, rest assured you are in good company, and there are empathetic people cheering you on. You can read the Film + TV Charity’s recent Looking Glass Report (and get funding support) here. The secret of a sustained creative career isn’t always brilliance, it’s largely about not giving up, right?

Nightbitch is a dark, dark comedy starring Amy Adams, rising from the creative ashes of her lowest, lost moments of motherhood. You don’t have to be a mother or a middle aged woman to find yourself laughing out loud at this film that reflects most of our struggles at the moment. Adams’s character fights her situation, her husband, her heritage, her self – to rediscover self-expression. It’s not easy, it skirts insanity via magic realism, and – no spoilers here – it is a fight worth watching (and fighting)!

The Substance, if you haven’t already seen it, is a darker, Faustian dive into the extreme choices we may feel forced to make to maintain our later careers/ selves. And in The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson’s character Shelly grapples with society and her daughter’s condemnation for putting her now dying career in entertainment before motherhood. And for what? So interesting… Back in Europe (way, way back) Firebrand is about agency. Please watch it if you haven’t seen it, I imagine you will be cheering.

These powerful, funny, important films imprint on you. We need to sit exhausted and uncomfortable with the themes of resistance and persistence – if we can, we need to dig deep – and act.

If you can’t find work, create. You can create opportunities for work or meetings via our online Development Meet coming up on March 19th. If you are taking work outside TV to pay your bills, there is no shame in that. You can still say you work in TV even if you’re not right now, you have earned that through your previous experience. If you’re determined to get out or reinvent yourself, we have a great blog coming up that is going to inspire and empower you.

Even if you do none of the above, come for a drink at our London drinks on May 1^st. Inertia never helped anyone. Do whatever you need to pull yourself out of the hole. Creativity doesn’t have to be paid. If it makes you feel better to rest, rest. But if it makes you feel good to be creative, create.

If you would like to discuss anything related to TV work, you can log in and use the Media Parents watercooler (anonymously if you like) – request collabs, share inspiration, have a moan…

Our next event is on March 18th, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

It’s been an intense couple of months looking for work. So I rejoined Media Parents to attend last week’s January networking event, and to apply for jobs. I’ve had work through Media Parents in the past, and been to their networking events before, so despite the state of the industry, I felt confident I would feel welcomed rather than competed with, and would enjoy myself. At the event we introduced ourselves by name and job title around the room and I found myself listing a long list of potential job titles to a round of applause.

We all introduced ourselves to the floor at Media Parents January networking. It's really helpful for everyone to know who's who

At Thursday’s event Amy explained that freelancers applying for roles through Media Parents will be in a group of up to 10 applicants. Many jobs are exclusive, but where they are listed elsewhere, employers say they look at Media Parents applicants first. How do they know? Application mails via the site are branded. Why do they like it? Media Parents is the only selective jobsite, requiring freelancers (not just restricted to parents) to have at least three years TV experience before joining. So much less sifting for hiring companies. From attending the event I can vouch that most people have much more experience than three years. So Media Parents is win, win for freelancers and hirers.

Media Parents Jan Drinks provided a great opportunity to meet or reconnect with companies like Strawberry Blond

I just want to say thank you so much for the networking evening and for the work that you do at Media Parents. I am so glad I made the journey. I am just reaching out to the people I met there. I’d say that I picked up contacts from 30% of the people in the room, including some employers I would love to work with.

I did some more stats for myself which I found interesting and really clear. I thought I would share them with you. I usually go from job to job without too much of a gap. Or have done for many years.

Researcher Hannah Bairsto, seen here with HOP Tina Lohmann, said it was the best networking event she had attended because it was friendly and relevant

Here are my stats as a freelancer of 23 years in two months of job searching, December 2024 to Jan 2025, prior to joining Media Parents:

****Job applications: 24 – for PD/SD across ob doc/fact ent/talent led genres.

Average number of applicants: 200 – 300 for every job (guestimate from the large numbers of applicants per job on the large jobsite I’ve previously been applying through + assuming they are not exclusive to that site).

Number of interviews – 3 (12.5 % hit rate)

Number of jobs got: 1 and it has been delayed until end of 2025.

***Number of speculative reach outs to talent managers / people I don’t know - 20

Number of emails back – 5

Expressions of interest for future work – 5

****Number of existing contacts with actual real work on the horizon who would earmark me – 1

*** number of my industry contacts who have called me saying do I want work? – 0

This element has been wiped out and was always there before. Although it formed 40% only of my work contracts.

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Reason for these stats: My contacts are not in work, or have left the industry, or have many mouths to feed in terms of who they are hiring. I understand many jobs are not advertised (as backed up by yesterday’s Media Parents email and ring round) – but, I agree with Talented People’s Industry Health Check that broadcaster and streamer-approved candidates are going from one job to the next. If the same people are working on what is being commissioned then like any eco system it will start to fail or massively diminish and no longer flourish. Even the bits that are left.

Prognosis:  Doing what I did before is unlikely to find me work on the basis of these stats. Hence joining Media Parents to increase my reach and opportunities.

Actions:

• Apply for jobs on a platform with a great reputation / less competition
• Meet new people and build new relationships (watch out for Media Parents next event which will be online on Feb 19th)
• Write for this blog which has a reach on social and direct mail of 35K people in TV. I’ve made this post anonymous as I feel it’s a bit contentious, but I will be writing, I will

Our next event is on Feb 19th, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Recently I was asked by Funny Women https://funnywomen.com/ to share my tips for making Comedy, Entertainment, and ‘Funny Fact Ent’ TV with a room full of people. But how to condense a 20-year career into a tight half hour, that’s remotely useful to the audience, without sounding like Alan Partridge reading aloud from his autobiography? Tough gig, writes Series Producer, Series Edit Producer, and Writer Anna Coane…

Comedy Producer Anna Coane, right, with Nic Lamont c/o Funny Women

I’ve been a comedy geek since I was a kid (my best mate and I would perform our ‘sketches’ in school assembly, under the shared delusion that we were French & Saunders). As a TV freelancer I’ve produced and developed scripted and unscripted comedy in many guises -  sketches, stand up, sitcoms, hidden camera pranks, travelogues, chat shows, panel shows, and archive formats. For shows including The Graham Norton Show, Frank Skinner On Demand, The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, Tonight With Omid, Julian Clary’s Greatest Xmas Adverts, The Comedy Bus, and The TNT Show. I’ve also been brought on board to ‘find the funny’ in factual formats too.

So on a cold, dark, windy evening in November, I found myself in a quirky board games café in Rochester, in front of an expectant audience, and host Nic Lamont – a brilliant actor and writer I’d last worked with 12 years ago on BBC3’s comedy newcomer vehicle Live At The Electric.

I eased in with a few anecdotes – that time in my pre-kids 20s I had to find a doula for Olivia Colman and her newborn on the set of Peep Show, that other time money was saved on extras by casting me in a speaking part opposite Paul Kaye in Strutter. But then onto perhaps more useful take home from my TV journey…

Anna Coane on the Media Parents Back to Work scheme at Edinburgh TV Festival

With Nic and I reconnecting this time as mums, and because in addition to making comedy for grown-ups I’ve recently made children’s TV (Big Fat Like, Meet The McQueens, I Can Do It You Can Too, for CBBC/CBeebies), I decided to share some headlines from my experiences of writing comedy for young kids, as a genre that the aspiring writers and stand ups in the audience might turn their pens to. Kids laugh at different things to adults, and children’s TV comes with constraints, and a whole load of compliance, so it’s a creative challenge that can really focus the comedy mind and exercise those writing muscles.

anna’s comedy writing tips

First up I suggested watching what your kids/nephews/nieces laugh at when watching films, TV or online content.

I found that visual and physical comedy lands better than wordy dialogue, so use props, mime techniques, slapstick and prat falls – adults/authority figures getting things wrong or falling over is hilarious.

But tone is key – on the shows I’ve made we were required to make sure young viewers weren’t left believing the presenter/performer had genuinely hurt themselves or others.

And always beware imitative behaviour (featuring activities or actions that might be dangerous if kids copy them at home).

It’s also important to know the target age group (3-year-olds being different from 10-year-olds), and pitch any dialogue and references accordingly.

Sketches about school life might not resonate with pre-schoolers. Likewise gags that rely on cool on-screen text or written graphics won’t mean much to younger kids who don’t read yet.

Silly or scatological sound effects were always a winner (kids find farts funny, who knew?!).

And you can’t rely on swear words to get laughs. Shit.

I’ve been asked back to be a guest speaker at a Funny Women workshop for female /non-binary comedy writers – Stand Up To Stand Out Winter Warm Up at London’s Groucho Club on Saturday 1^st February 2025. I’m delighted that it’s with Nic Lamont again, and Funny Women founder Lynne Parker. There’ll be techniques on writing, performing, and creating comedy, and using humour in everyday interactions, at work or play. Media Parents subscribers who those who identify as female or non binary can get a 50% discount (email info@funnywomen.com for details). So if you want to supercharge your comedy, get a confidence boost, or are just comedy curious, come along and get some tips in a friendly, supportive environment. I promise no anecdotes this time.

Anna’s writing agent is:

https://www.gloriousmanagement.com/artists/anna-coane

Log in to view Anna’s Media Parents profile here:

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/2251/anna-coane

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