Dr. Margot Belet

- Judged full-length manuscripts by writing detailed reading reports (focus on plot, pace, characters, style and structure). Read about 600 pages per week - Monthly information sessions with prominent literary agents about diverse topics (contracts, recognizing trends, building your own author list)

PhD fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Sociology Topic: Large-scale experiments to promote the learning and the reading motivation of at-risk students by integrating Twitter and YouTube into the curriculum

- Assigned reviewers to articles for International Review of Education - Proofread French volume on educational challenges in Africa - Drafted newsletters and updated website in English and French

- Proofread more than 100 unsolicited manuscripts - Supported accepted authors in improving their manuscripts - Basic familiarity with literary copyright and contract issues

- Promoted encounter with Salman Rushdie at BOZAR - Conducted benchmark research into cultural events - Drafted newsletters in Dutch, French and English

- Focused essays on the interaction between literature and society - Dissertation: „Secret Agents“, interviews with literary agents in London about the tension between quality and commerce in publishing

- Specialization: sociology of culture and religion - Dissertation: Sketching the profile of crossover readers in Flanders