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SLAMDUNK

Patrick Neate and the Bookslam team (pictured) won a much coveted Sony Radio Award  last week for Best Internet Programme for the Book Slam podcast. Download the seventh episode now. It features Richard Milward reading from ‘Apples’ [Faber], El Crisis and the South London soul of Jamie Woon.

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e-BOOKS

I am quoted extensively in Damian Lee’s excellent article entitled Will publishers take a punt on pixels with the e-book? in today’s Daily Telegraph. I would love to hear from anyone who has road-tested an e-book reader and has any feedback. Do email me here.

PFD Announce New Foreign Rights Agent

globe_stand.jpgThe Peters Fraser and Dunlop Group Limited have appointed Jessica Craig as foreign rights agent for adult books to work from their London offices in Covent Garden.   She will be selling rights in translation worldwide on behalf of PFD London and will start on February 5th. Jessica was most recently Associate Rights Director at Canongate Books and prior to that worked in her native America at the agency Burnes and Clegg and for the scouts Franklin and Siegel. Continue reading ‘PFD Announce New Foreign Rights Agent’

STUFF FROM THE DEEP AND DISTANT PAST……

Postings made earlier than this have been transferred over from my previous Home Page. They are hilariously out of date but they will give you a broad overview of some of the projects from the deep and distant past that I have been involved in.