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Macmillan New Writing
Macmillan New Writing is an imprint of the British publishing company Pan Macmillan. Designed to attract previously unpublished authors, it offers aspiring novelists 20% of royalties from the sale of their book but no advance on signing. Books Macmillan New Writing has published have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the CWA New Blood Dagger, the Edgar Award for best paperback original, the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year, and the Wales Book of the Year. A Partial List of Authors * MFW Curran * Maggie Dana * Aliya Whiteley * Jonathan Drapes * Michael Stephen Fuchs * Frances Garrood * Eliza Graham * Ryan David Jahn Lucy McCarraher* James McCreet * Brian McGilloway * Roger Morris (English writer) Roger N Morris (born 1960 in Manchester) is an English historical fiction author and advertising copywriter. He is known for the historical fiction novels based upon the Dostoevsky character Porfiry Petrovich, and for the Inspector Sila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Pan Books began as an independent publisher, established in 1944 by Alan Bott, previously known for his memoirs of his experiences as a flying ace in the First World War. The Pan Books logo, showing the ancient Greek god Pan playing pan-pipes, was designed by Mervyn Peake. A few years after it was founded, Pan Books was bought out by a consortium of several publishing houses, including Macmillan, Collins, Heinemann, and, briefly, Hodder & Stoughton. It became wholly owned by Macmillan in 1987. Pan specialised in publishing paperback fiction and, along with Penguin Books, was one of the first popular publishers of this format in the UK. Many popular authors saw their works given paperback publication through Pan, including Ian Fleming, whose James Bond series first appeared in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Novel Of The Year
The Romantic Novel of the Year Award is an award for romance novels since 1960, presented by Romantic Novelists' Association, and since 2003, the novellas, also won the Love Story of the Year (now RoNA Rose Award). In 2018, awards were given to men under their own names for the first time in the organisation's 58-year history Awards Romantic Novel of the Year a.k.a. RoNA Award a.k.a. Popular Romantic Fiction This award recognises the best long romance novels. Winners * 1960: '' More Than Friendship'' by Mary Howard (Collins) * 1961: ''Witches' Sabbath'' by Paula Allardyce ( Hodder & Stoughton) * 1962: ''Larksbrook'' by Margaret Maddocks ( Hurst & Blackett) * 1963: ''House Divided'' by Dorothy M. Cray (Hurst & Blackett) * 1964: ''Journey from Yesterday'' by Suzanne Ebel (Collins) * 1965: ''The Silver Answer'' by Margaret Maddocks (Hurst & Blackett) * 1967: ''The Truth Game'' by Anne Betteridge (Hurst & Blackett) * 1968: ''The Future Is Forev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Publishing Companies Of The United Kingdom
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is '' codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Worgul
Doug Worgul (born September 13, 1953) is an American writer and editor living in Kansas City. Early life and education Raised in Battle Creek and Lansing, Michigan, Worgul is the oldest of three siblings. He graduated from J.W. Sexton High School in 1971, and attended Gordon College (Massachusetts) from 1971 to 1972. He graduated from Western Michigan University in 1976 with a BA in political science, and again in 1977 with a M.A. in education, with an emphasis on the teaching of reading. While a student at Western Michigan University, he studied writing and poetry under Stuart Dybek. Worgul lived in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, from 1973 to 1989. Career Worgul moved to Kansas City in 1989 and worked for ''The Kansas City Star'' newspaper as a writer, book and features editor, and editor of ''Star Magazine'' from 1996 to 2006. He was previously editor of ''Kansas City Magazine.'' Prior to his work as a journalist, Worgul was a social worker and an advertising and marketin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L C Tyler
L. C. (Len) Tyler (born 1951) is a British writer of comic crime fiction. His ''Elsie and Ethelred'' mysteries feature Ethelred Tressider, a crime writer, and Elsie Thirkettle, his literary agent. Biography Born 1951, Tyler was raised in Southend-on-Sea, Essex and studied geography at Jesus College, Oxford University (matriculating in 1971), before going on to study systems analysis at City University in London. He worked for the British Council in Malaysia, Sudan, Thailand and Denmark, before becoming Chief Executive A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ... of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, then a full-time writer. Tyler's 2007 novel ''The Herring Seller's Apprentice'' was nominated for an Edgar Award for "Best Paperback Original". In 2015 LC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suroopa Mukherjee
Suroopa Mukherjee is an Indian writer. Career She is the author of several books for children and young people, including ''Bhopal Gas Tragedy: The Worst Industrial Disaster in Human History'', a book about the Bhopal disaster. She teaches English Literature at Hindu College, University of Delhi and is the coordinator of a student group dedicated to creating youth awareness on issues relating to environmental damage and corporate crime. ''Across The Mystic Shore'' was her debut novel for adults, released by Macmillan New Writing in March 2007. Her most recent book "Surviving Bhopal" draws on oral testimonials of the affected community of the Bhopal disaster The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Considered the world's ... and analyzes the cause and aftermath of the disaster from the perspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Morris (English Writer)
Roger N Morris (born 1960 in Manchester) is an English historical fiction author and advertising copywriter. He is known for the historical fiction novels based upon the Dostoevsky character Porfiry Petrovich, and for the Inspector Silas Quinn historical detective series. Work Morris' first novel, ''Taking Comfort'', was published by Macmillan New Writing and appeared in April 2006. His second novel ''The Gentle Axe'', based on the character Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky's ''Crime and Punishment'', was published by the Penguin Press in 2007. The review website Kirkus characterised the novel as "Russian Lit Lite" while the New York Times was more positive, stating the novel "in many ways feels less like a modern tribute to Dostoyevsky than a translation of an overlooked novel by one of his contemporary imitators, transported into the present". The 2008 sequel, ''A Vengeful Longing'', continued the premise and similarly featured the character of Porfiry Petrovich, inve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian McGilloway
Brian McGilloway (born 1974) is a crime fiction author from Derry, Northern Ireland. Biography McGilloway was born in Derry where he attended St Columb's College. He then studied English at Queen's University Belfast, where he was very active in student theatre, winning a national Irish Student Drama Association award for theatrical lighting design in 1996. He is a former Head of English at St. Columb's College in Derry, but now teaches in Holy Cross College in Strabane. McGilloway lives in Strabane with his wife and their four children. Writing McGilloway's debut novel was a crime thriller called ''Borderlands''. ''Borderlands'' was shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association Dagger award for a debut novel. In 2007 McGilloway signed with Pan Macmillan to write three crime thrillers in his Inspector Devlin series. The sequel to ''Borderlands'', ''Gallows Lane'', was published in April 2008. His 2020 novel, ''The Last Crossing'', was nominated in the 2021 Theakston's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan David Jahn
Ryan David Jahn (born 1979) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Biography Born in Arizona, Jahn spent much of his youth moving between his father's apartment in Austin, Texas, and his mother's various rentals in and around Los Angeles, California. At one point, while living near Los Angeles, he was one of six people sharing a one-bedroom apartment, and has said it was to avoid these cramped living quarters that he spent much of his time in public libraries. He finished high school at sixteen, and, after dropping out of college, joined the army, an experience he has described as "ludicrous." He now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Jessica, and two daughters, Francine and Matilda. Work Though his work has been described as crime fiction, including by Jahn himself ("It revolved around a crime, so that seemed to be what it was"), he has cited writers as diverse as Raymond Carver, Ernest Hemingway, and Stephen King as influences. His first novel, ''Acts of Violence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliya Whiteley
Aliya Whiteley (born 1974) is a British novelist, short story writer and poet. Biography Aliya Whiteley was born in Barnstaple, North Devon, in 1974 and grew up in the seaside town of Ilfracombe which formed the inspiration for many of her stories and novels. She graduated from Ilfracombe College in 1995, gaining a BA (Hons) degree in theatre, Film and Television Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2011 she was awarded an MSc in Library and Information Management by the University of Northumbria; her dissertation involved conducting a case study into the research techniques of modern novelists. She currently lives in West Sussex. Works Novels *''Three Things About Me'' (2006) *''Light Reading'' (2008) *''The Loosening Skin'' (2018) *''Skein Island'' (2019) *'' Skyward Inn'' (2021) Novellas *''Mean Mode Median'' (2004) *''The Beauty'' (2014) *''The Arrival of Missives'' (2018) Short stories *''Witchcraft in the Harem'' (collection, 2013) *"Siev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales Book Of The Year
The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors. Established in 1992, the awards are currently administered by Literature Wales, and supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Government and the Welsh Books Council. Competition format The longlist of ten works in each language is published in April and the shortlist of three works in each language at the Hay Festival in May. The winners are announced in June or July. Since 2006, the winners have each received £10,000. From 2007, four runners-up (two in each language) also each receive £1000. In 2009, Media Wales sponsored a voted "People's Choice" award for the English-language works.Academi: Wales Book of the Year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Novelists' Association
The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) is the professional body that represents authors of romantic fiction in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1960 by Denise Robins (first president), Barbara Cartland (first vice-president), Vivian Stuart (first elected chairman), and other authors including Elizabeth Goudge, Netta Muskett, Catherine Cookson, Rosamunde Pilcher and Lucilla Andrews. The RNA has a membership approaching 1000, composed of authors and publishing professionals. It promotes and celebrates excellence in romantic fiction across all sub-genres. It offers a programme of events throughout the year including an annual conference and workshops/seminars on aspects of writing craft and the publishing industry. The organisations also supports a number of regional chapters, who meet regularly to discuss issues of concern to writers of romantic fiction. The organisation also runs the New Writers' Scheme, under which unpublished authors receive an appraisal of their work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
