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US deal for Mark Charan Newton's fantasy novels

Sat, 9 May 2009 06:05:00 +0000

Margaret Halton, Rights Director at Pan Macmillan, has sold US rights in two fantasy novels by UK novelist Mark Charan Newton to Chris Schluep for a good five-figure sum in US dollars. World rights in the novels, which open with Mark’s mainstream debut NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR (to be published in ...

Ian Whates

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:57:12 +0000

The latest client of the John Jarrold Literary Agency is UK author and editor Ian Whates. In the mid-1980s, Ian started submitting stories to science fiction and fantasy magazines, several of which appeared in small press publications Dream and New Moon Quarterly. The second to be published, ...

Major four-book deal for Malaz co-creator

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:51:00 +0000

John Jarrold has concluded a four-book World rights deal for Canadian fantasy writer Ian Cameron Esslemont with Simon Taylor of Transworld Publishers in London for a strong five-figure sum in pounds sterling. The first book, called STONEWIELDER, is due for delivery in September 2009, and ...

Saxon Bullock - read the opening chapter

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:08:28 +0000

Saxon has put the prologue and opening chapter of his wonderful SF novel, THE HYPERNOVA GAMBIT, up on his website. You'll find it here: http://www.saxonbullock.com/fiction.html Enjoy!

Terry P

Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:39:04 +0000

Can I point you at TERRY PRATCHETT: LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER'S on BBC2 TV at 9 pm tonight. From the clips I've seen, I think it will be very worthwhile, informative and not at all sentimental. First of two parts...