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A Baby's Cry is 17th bestselling memoir of 2012
02 Jan 2013
More success for Cathy Glass, whose book A Baby’s Cry was the 17th bestselling memoir of 2012, below Tulisa but above Justin Bieber.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/dec/28/top-100-bestselling-books-2012#data
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Ebook price promotions lined up for The Boy No One Loved over the Christmas period.
25 Dec 2012
On 19 Dec Harper Collins 360 kicked off the US promotion. This runs until 8 Jan and throughout that period the price, across all e-retailers, will be reduced to $0.99.
On Christmas Day The Boy No One Loved will be added to Amazon’s 12 Days of Christmas promotion. This runs for the 12 days following Christmas.
With the 12 Days of Christmas promotion Amazon send out mailings to email subscribers, and directly to devices. They’ll also feature it across their social media channels.
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Interview with Andrew Lownie & David Haviland
21 Dec 2012
An interview with Andrew Lownie and David Haviland on Britwriters can be found at Brit Writers (no longer exists)
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Damaged is at number five in the NYT ebook bestseller list
20 Dec 2012
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose first book Damaged is at number five in the New York Times ebook bestseller list again this week. Five weeks in the top five .
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Malcolm Castle's 'All Fired Up' serialised in the Daily Express
17 Dec 2012
When Malcolm Castle joined the fire brigade at 18 he expected big things: roaring blazes, heartstopping dramas and rescuing damsels in distress. But life as a country fireman didn’t quite work out that way, as his hilarious new book reveals…
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/365290/Confessions-of-a-Country-fireman-
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Recent Foreign Rights Sales
17 Dec 2012
Spanish rights in Nessa Carey’s popular science book The Epigenetics Revolution
Portuguese rights in Marina Chapman’s memoir The Girl With No Name
Dutch rights in Duncan Falconer’s thriller Assassin
Dutch rights in Shed Simove’s spoof Fifty Shades of Gray
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David Long's Bizarre Britain to Constable
17 Dec 2012
Constable have bought David Long’s anthology Bizarre Britain.
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Radio 4 profiles Julian Maclaren-Ross
14 Dec 2012
Julian Maclaren-Ross’s Of Love and Hunger was Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime last week.
This week, Radio 4 ran an excellent documentary about his life, called Mr X: Julian Maclaren-Ross.
The programme is available for 6 more days here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p7dd5
There was also an interesting profile in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/07/dj-taylor-rereading-julian-maclaren-ross
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Harper Collins video trailer for Another Forgotten Child
14 Dec 2012
Harper Collins have produced this video trailer for Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151144309276394&set=vb.509805005719466&type=2&theater
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Shed Simove's self-publishing experience with Fifty Shades of Gray
13 Dec 2012
Shed Simove’s relates his experience of self-publishing his new ‘blank’ book Fifty Shades of Gray in Real Business http://realbusiness.co.uk/news/idiots-in-a-hurry
