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
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
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
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Icon Books has acquired a third title by Redhammer client, veteran reporter and former-MP Martin Bell. Icon m.d. Simon Flynn acquired world and full digital rights to For Whom the Bell Tolls from Peter Cox of Redhammer Management. The…Read More
MG Harris on The Daily Politics
Redhammer client MG Harris today appears on BBC’s The Daily Politics show to argue that the planned English Baccalaureate, with its focus on core subjects, risks marginalising less academic pupils.
” Being a children’s author means that I visit many schools…Read More
Paver Ignites Bologna
Penguin’s international deals for Redhammer client Michelle Paver ignited the Bologna Children’s Book Fair today. Penguin penned deals for Paver’s Gods and Warriors series with House of Books in Holland, Hachette in France, Semic in Sweden and Mondadori in Italy,…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
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