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Shown is a graphic that has a sunny forest background with a book resting on a felled tree trunk. The book has grass, trees and a house growing from the open pages. Top left is a black and white photo of John Baker. He is standing in an Underground station wearing a dark three-quarter length coat, holding the lapels with each hand. John has short, dark hair and a trimmed beard. Top right is Shona Kinsella, who has long, black, wavy hair that hangs over right side of her face. On the bottom right and left is the BFS logo, a red and black dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. At the top are lines of black text, saying 'BFS Online Presents: The Book Journey.’ Below are lines of black text, saying ‘Interview: Agent John Baker interviews by BFS Chair Shona Kinsella.’ At the bottom are lines of black text saying ‘Saturday 13th April, 12:15pm to 1:15pm. Tickets from BFS website.’

BFS Online: The Book Journey – Interview with Agent John Baker

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Our talented interviewee is John Baker, science fiction, fantasy and horror agent, and will be interviewed by BFS Chair, Shona Kinsella.

John Baker (he/him) joined the agency in 2019 where he is focusing on building his own cultivated list, shaped around his passion for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. John also leads the film & TV desk for the wider agency and is the Secretary of the Association of Author’s Agents and serves as the co-chair of the AAA The Bridge Committee.

John is building a unique list of authors, who all share a passion for subverting expectations and creating rich new worlds of adventure. John is focusing on authors writing in the Adult, New Adult and YA space. John’s authors include S. A. MacLean, Mahmud el Sayed, Kenechi Udogu and A. M. Shine, whose debut novel The Watchers will be in released in cinemas this June with M. Night Shyamalan producing..

Find out more about John on here. Or follow him on Twitter.

Shona Kinsella: Shona Kinsella is a multiple-award-nominated Scottish fantasy author. Her works include The Heart of Winter, The Vessel of KalaDene series, The Flame and the Flood, and non-fiction Outlander and the Real Jacobites: Scotland’s Fight for the Stuarts. She was the editor of the British Fantasy Society’s fiction publication BFS Horizons for four years and is now the Chair of the Society. She lives with her husband and 3 children on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

Find out more about Shona on her website. Or you can follow her on Facebook and Bluesky.