Redhammer has relaunched children’s author Michelle Paver‘s fansite, The Clan, with a new look and additional features including simultaneous translation which will enable fans from different countries to talk in real time. Andrea See, who previously worked at Canongate overseeing…Read More
A New Breed Of Literary Agent
Redhammer is a boutique literary agency.
We're not the biggest nor the oldest agency around; yet we provide our clients with unrivalled depth and scope of management services.
We believe that your time is best spent writing: our time is spent taking care of everything else.
Publishing is changing. Literary agents need to develop new skills and services to reflect the new digital reality.
Redhammer is way ahead of the curve. In ten years, maybe other agents will be where we are today. Meanwhile, our clients benefit from the finest management available, bar none.
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Better Bookselling
Half the adults in the wasteland that used to be the great American city of Detroit now cannot read. We’re not talking about their failure to perceive the finer nuances of Jonathan Franzen’s latest flight of fancy. No. They can’t…Read More
Project FreeAgent Launches
If your agent becomes your publisher, who will check your contract for you? Redhammer will – for free
“There is a rights grab going on at the moment”, says Redhammer’s Peter Cox, “that puts the California Gold Rush in the shade. …Read More
Your Agent Should Not Be Your Publisher
A major debate is going on in publishing circles at the moment, and you need to know about it.
Frequently, these things are a storm in a teacup. What excites publishing folk often leaves the rest of the world… a bit…Read More
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Swatch It
The year is 1983, and the once-proud Swiss watch industry lies broken beyond repair. Formerly a bastion of traditional craftsmanship and old-fashioned working practices, the Swiss have been humbled by a ferocious price-war fought on the battlefield of new technology.
Sounds…Read More
Books Need Authors. But Do Publishers?
Recently, Margaret Atwood cautioned the publishing business not to forget the central important of authors (read the interview in this piece from the Globe & Mail). How very timely.
At lunch last week I was discussing this issue with…Read More
Phase Change
When water becomes ice, it undergoes an astonishing transformation: something that physicists term a phase change. Think about it: water, the very essence of fluidity, becomes hard, sharp and brittle. Phase changes takes place when environmental conditions reach a critical…Read More
Shoot The Armadillos
Our cherished publishing industry—which to outsiders can appear more like a part-time hobby than a serious business—is a veritable cornucopia of contradictions.
A case in point. We have a boundless appetite for new ideas which we commoditise, package and sell. Yet…Read More
Putting The Book In
Being a publicist today is one of the toughest and least-appreciated positions in publishing. I salute you, publicists – unsung heroes all.
However, it was not always thus. “This is the easiest job in the world!” trilled my publicist when my…Read More
Announcing The World’s First Trans-Lingual Fan Site
Until now, most fan sites on the net have been in just one language: English.
If non English readers of internationally best-selling series such as Michelle Paver’s CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS wanted to access the official site they had to learn…Read More
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