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Langan-Brian

Brian Langan

Trading as: Storyline Editing

Based in: Co. Meath

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Professional memberships

Irish Writers Centre (Professional Member)

Educational qualifications

BA (Economics and French), UCD
MA (Film Studies), UCD

Languages

French, Irish (working knowledge)

Experience

Editor, Oak Tree Press, 1997–2001
Editor, The Liffey Press, 2001–2007
Commissioning Editor (Non-Fiction), Poolbeg Press, 2007–2010
Editor, Transworld Ireland (Penguin Random House Ireland), 2010–2017

Services offered

Writing, fiction editing, non-fiction editing, developmental editing, structural editing, manuscript assessment, copy-editing, proofreading, teaching/coaching, literary agent

Media

Books

Subject areas

Fiction; narrative and general non-fiction; memoir, autobiography and biography; humour; history; film, music and cultural studies; business; sports

Clients include

Transworld (Penguin Random House); Gill Books; Black & White Publishing; Simon & Schuster; independent authors.

Examples of work undertaken

FREELANCE:
Donal Ryan, Strange Flowers (Doubleday, 2020)
Richie Sadlier, Recovering (Gill Books, 2019)
David Robert Grimes, The Irrational Ape (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
Lynn Ruane, People Like Me (Gill Books, 2018)
David McWilliams, Renaissance Nation (Gill Books, 2018)
Seán Cavanagh with Damian Lawlor, The Obsession: My Autobiography (Black & White, 2018)

IN-HOUSE
Fiction:
Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart; The Thing About December; All We Shall Know; A Slanting of the Sun; From A Low and Quiet Sea
Shane Connaughton, Married Quarters
Ciarán McMenamin, Skintown
Ken Bruen, Headstone; Purgatory
Niamh O’Connor, Too Close for Comfort; Blink
Mark O’Sullivan, Crocodile Tears; Sleeping Dogs

Non-fiction:
Colm O’Regan, The “Irish Mammy” series of books; Bolloxology
Conor O’Clery, May You Live in Interesting Times; Moscow: December 25, 1991; The Shoemaker and His Daughter
Hilary Fannin, Hopscotch
Patrick Deeley, The Hurley Maker’s Son
Joe Duffy, Just Joe
David Norris, A Kick Against the Pricks
Colm Cooper, Gooch
Sinéad McCoole, Easter Widows
Anne Chambers, T.K. Whitaker: Portrait of a Patriot
Dustin the Turkey, Wikibeaks
Mickey Harte, Harte: Presence is the Only Thing
Kathryn Thomas, Off the Beaten Track
Kathleen Doyle, What Would Ma Say?
Ann Kenny, The Girl in the Wicker Basket
Carole Coleman, Alleluia America
Anthony Murphy, Island of the Setting Sun

Additional information

I am a published novelist – my first novel, Light in the Head, was published by Poolbeg Press in 1999. I am currently writing my second novel.

I have facilitated creative writing and editing courses and workshops for the Irish Writers’ Centre, Publishing Ireland, National University of Ireland Galway and University of Limerick.

I also run Storyline Literary Agency, established in 2019: https://www.storylineagency.com/

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