Literary agent and script doctor
Here is the cover for Adam Nevill’s third horror novel with Macmillan UK, LAST DAYS, due for publication in the UK around May 2012.
As you’ll see, agency client Mark Charan Newton’s site has had a wash and brush-up:
Anja Schleicher at Heyne has acquired German rights in SF novel THE NOISE WITHIN by Ian Whates from Julia Krischak of Thomas Schlueck GmbH, representing the John Jarrold Literary Agency. The book was published in the UK and US by Solaris in 2010, and has been highly praised:
‘There’s a lot to enjoy here: the characters, the action, a rogue AI starship, and spooky alien technology… I read it straight through..’. –Neal Asher
‘Unreasonably enjoyable. 24 meets Starship Troopers. If you read Reynolds, Hamilton, Banks – read this…’ –Stephen Baxter
‘The Noise Within is an A+ for me and the series it debuts has a very high potential and I expect it to develop to be among the best space opera series around.’ –Fantasy Book Critic
SEPTEMBER 8
DEAD ISLAND – MARK MORRIS (BANTAM/CORGI UK) HORROR GAME TIE-IN, PBK. FIRST WORLD PUBLICATION
SEPTEMBER 20
WEREWORLD – CURTIS JOBLING (PUFFIN US) YA DARK FANTASY, PBK. FIRST US PUBLICATION
SEPTEMBER 29
THE DEMI-MONDE: WINTER – ROD REES (QUERCUS UK) SF NOVEL, PBK.
HOUSE OF DOORS – CHAZ BRENCHLEY (SEVERN HOUSE UK/US) HORROR NOVEL, HBK. FIRST WORLD PUBLICATION
Just back from the Swanwick Writers’ Summer School, where I’ve been giving talks, interviewing Iain Banks on stage and having 1-2-1s with new writers. I met Katherine Parris there, who runs this writers’ retreat (and farmhouse B&B) in Brittany, which was recommended to me by several Swanwick regulars:
http://www.thewriteretreat.com/