Simon Bewick worked in publishing for 25 years, including 10 years as Global Head of Digital Marketing for Oxford University Press, before setting up his own marketing consultancy service where he has worked with publishers, charities, festivals and more on branding, strategy and digital marketing. After moving back to his native North East England in… Read more »
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Rob Barrow
Rob Barrow is a writer, musician and Japanese Cinema fan who travelled extensively before settling in Cyprus with his family. Born and raised in Barnstaple, Rob graduated from the University of Gloucestershire in 2008 with a degree in Film Studies. It wasn’t until a decade had passed that he started to use his degree the… Read more »
Faiqa Mansab
Faiqa Mansab is a Pakistani writer. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a high distinction from Kingston University London and an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck University London. She works as an educationist. She has written and continues to write for numerous publications both local and international. Her debut novel… Read more »
A.A. CHAUDHURI 2-Book Deal with Hera Books
Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency is delighted to announce that Keshini Naidoo, Publishing Director at Hera Books, has acquired digital and print World English Language Rights for A.A. Chaudhuri’s thrilling new psychological thriller and a further, untitled thriller. Keshini says: ‘When A.A. Chaudhuri’s submission came in, I lost a day reading this utterly gripping,… Read more »
Richard V. Chesterton
It should be no surprise that Richard Chesterton has a creative gene as he has a family background in writing being the great, great and more greats nephew of GK Chesterton. The creativity also came from his father, a drummer who played in the bands Love Affair, Cymbaline, and The Flies, all of whom had top ten… Read more »
Tessa Harris
Tessa Harris has come a long way since she wrote her first story on a piece of wallpaper when she was just four years old. After reading History at Oxford, she became a journalist (what else?) and editor, until her debut novel, The Anatomist’s Apprentice, was published in 2012. It won the Romantic Times Best… Read more »
Audio rights acquired for Iain Maitland
Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Aimee Hogston, Publishing and Marketing Executive at Isis Audio, Oakhill and Soundings, divisions of Ulverscroft Ltd, has acquired audio rights for Iain Maitland’s superb thriller MR.TODD’S RECKONING and OUT OF THE MADHOUSE, a wonderful non-fiction book written by Iain & his son… Read more »
Audio rights acquired for Awais Khan
Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Aimee Hogston, Publishing and Marketing Executive at Isis Audio, Oakhill and Soundings, divisions of Ulverscroft Ltd, has acquired audio rights for Isis Audio of Awais Khan’s IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS to be published in Spring 2021. Awais Khan commented, “I am… Read more »
Alan Gorevan
Alan Gorevan is an Irish thriller writer and intellectual property attorney. A winner of the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair competition, he is the author of the novels The Kindness of Psychopaths, Better Confess, and Out of Nowhere, the novellas The Forbidden Room, The Hostage, and Hit and Run, and the short story collection Dark… Read more »
Heleen Kist
Heleen Kist is a Dutch businesswoman who lived all over the world while growing up and for her career. Then she fell in love with a Scotsman and his country, and now writes about its (sometimes scary) people from her garden office in Glasgow. She was awarded a Spotlight as ‘up and coming author’ at… Read more »
Iain Maitland
Iain Maitland is the author of the thrillers, Sweet William, Mr Todd’s Reckoning and The Scribbler. Mr Todd’s Reckoning is coming to TV as a six-part series courtesy of AbbottVision, the makers of Shameless and Cracker. He is also the author of two memoirs, Dear Michael, Love Dad and Out Of The Madhouse. He is… Read more »
Linda Stratmann
Linda Stratmann is the author of fourteen non-fiction books mainly about true crime, but her work also includes Chloroform, the Quest for Oblivion, a history of the use and misuse of chloroform, and three biographies, notably her acclaimed The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde’s Nemesis. Her most recent non-fiction publication The Secret Poisoner chronicles the efforts of science and the law to tackle poison… Read more »
Trudy Nixon’s debut novel, Endless Turquoise, out now!
I am excited to report that my first novel, Endless Turquoise, is available on Amazon, so pack your bags and get ready to take a trip to the Caribbean. You can purchase an e-book of Endless Turquoise by following these links: IN THE USA HERE IN CANADA HERE AND IN THE UK HERE… Read more »
Audio rights acquired for A.A. Chaudhuri
Annette Crossland of A for Authors Agency Ltd is delighted to announce that Becky Hobson, Group Publishing Manager at Ulverscroft, has acquired audio rights for Isis Audio of A.A. Chaudhuri’s THE SCRIBE and THE ABDUCTION. These are the first two volumes in the Amazon bestselling Kramer/Carver thriller series. A.A. Chaudhuri commented “I am absolutely thrilled that THE SCRIBE… Read more »
Orenda Books signs Awais Khan’s devastatingly emotive, searingly relevant No Honour in a two-book Frankfurt pre-empt
Karen Sullivan, Publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights, ex-USA/Can, including TV and audio, for Awais Khan’s atmospheric, searing No Honour, and a further, untitled novel, from Annette Crossland at A is for Authors, in a Frankfurt pre-empt. Karen says, ‘This beautifully written, utterly compulsive book has… Read more »
Leigh Chambers
Born in Doncaster, Leigh ended up in her current home in Cambridge via Liverpool and London. Along the way she founded a magazine about women’s writing (and was one of the first to publish Carol Ann Duffy, among others), counted cars, built up her typing speed, worked as a journalist, and headed up communications… Read more »
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