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A MUSE For Every Writer!

Monday, May 24th, 2010

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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Life’s A Pitch

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

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

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Major Deal for Michelle Paver

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

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

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Free London Guide

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

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

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Storming The Charts

Monday, March 29th, 2010

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

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“Leo” Published To Torrent of Publicity

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

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

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Agents Of Change?

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

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

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Tom Hanks To Produce “Zig Zag”

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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

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Michelle Paver on Al Roker’s Book Club

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Author of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, Michelle Paver flies to New York for a guest appearance on The Today Show’s Al Roker’s Book Club. A worldwide success, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness has sold more than three million copies…Read More

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Good Times

Monday, January 11th, 2010

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