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publishing company

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. Designed to attract previously unpublished authors, it offers aspiring

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s 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

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, the

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, the

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for best paperback original, the

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's Romantic Novel of the Year, and the

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A partial list of authors

* Conor Corderoy * MFW Curran * Maggie Dana *

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 sto ...

* Jonathan Drapes * Michael Stephen Fuchs * Frances Garrood * Eliza Graham *

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, Cal ...

* Lucy McCarraher * James McCreet *

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 i ...

* Roger Morris (English writer) *

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 En ...

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. He also writes a second series based on the lawyer ...

* Doug Worgul

References

"A Gamble That's Paying Off". ''Publishing News'', April 30, 2008

External links

Macmillan New Writing official site
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