Received my login details for the new community website from Harper Collins yeaterday and have logged in and filled in my profile.
There has been a lot of speculattion around the net about publishers like Harper Collins and Penguin abandoning the traditional; route of going through agents to find new talent.Harper Collins through Authonomy, Penguin through […]

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Just read a blog post by Lee Goldberg.
Normally I would say, “leave the artwork to your publisher, they know what they are doing.”
Once again. I stand corrected.
Would you assume that the book depicted on Lee’s blog is a crime novel?
I thought it was a bad Stephen King rip-off.
Here’s  the link to Lee’s writing blog
Thanks Lee, […]

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Changing times in the publishing world.
Just read a great blog post by Nicci French on reactions to the digitisation of media and the future of publishing.
Nicci French Blog
 Is this the end of the book as we know it?
 Some argue that this change away from traditional methods gives more power to the author in question, freeing […]

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It’s the old catch22 situation. Most large publishers won’t touch a manuscript for a new author and agents won’t touch an unpublished author. How do we as budding crime authors get noticed by the powers that be?
The above srtatement is not strictly true. Agents are always looking for the next JK Rowling or Ruth rendell, […]

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