MUSE, the new quarterly literary e-zine from the pioneering Litopia Writers’ Colony, is available now.
With big-name contributions from the likes of Lee Child, Bernard Cornwell, RJ Ellory, international YA success MG Harris and Charlaine …Read More
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Latest News
Major Deal for Michelle Paver
Malcolm Edwards, Deputy CEO and Publisher of Orion Publishing Group and Jon Wood, Deputy Publisher OPG, have bought Michelle Paver’s ghost story DARK MATTER from Peter Cox of Redhammer. Orion has secured World Rights and will publish in hardback this…Read More
“Leo” Published To Torrent of Publicity
David Yelland’s heartfelt and heart-warming “The Truth About Leo” has been published to a torrent of media coverage. The book tells the story of ten-year-old protagonist Leo, who lives every day desperately trying to hide the fact that his father…Read More
Tom Hanks To Produce “Zig Zag”
Playtone’s Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are producing the film of Nicholas Booth’s book “ZigZag”, the definitive story of Eddie Chapman: Britain’s greatest, and most unlikely, WWII double agent.
A pre-war safebreaker, Eddie was on the run from British justice when…Read More
News Updates
Life’s A Pitch
What is it about this business that makes us so allergic to the idea of competitive selling?
When I first became an agent, I was shocked to discover that “respectable” agents did not compete against each other for business….Read More
Free London Guide
Redhammer has once again produced a free guide – download it here – for visitors coming to the London Book Fair (but others can use it too!). Covering a wide variety of topics in just a few compact pages, LONDON…Read More
Storming The Charts
Redhammer clients David Yelland and Michelle Paver together share the No. 8 and No. 9 position in Amazon’s “Hot Future Releases” list for their respective titles “The Truth About Leo” (Penguin) and “Ghost Hunter” (paperback edition, Orion). “This is an…Read More
Agents Of Change?
If history books exist in the future, they will surely record that the year 2010 was the defining moment in our exodus from analogue to digital publishing.
Yet of all the extraordinary things to have happened thus far, the most far-reaching…Read More
Good Times
Call me crazy, but I’m wildly optimistic about the new decade. In fact, I believe it will be publishing’s Golden Age.
Before you phone for the men in white coats, hear me out. No, I’m not in denial. Yes,…Read More
Culture Shock
Chief among the siren lures of publishing’s Brave New Digital Future is the dream of doing away with the middleman.
From this side of the desk, the poor old retailer is usually perceived as publishing’s Achilles’ heel. It’s every…Read More
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