Ebury Publishing is pleased to announce the launch list for its new SF and Fantasy imprint Del Rey which will begin publishing in 2013.
Michael Rowley, Editorial Director, Del Rey, has signed deals with authors Mark Hodder, Liesel Schwarz and Django Wexler. He commented, ‘I'm thrilled to be launching with such a terrific group of talented authors. Mark Hodder is, quite simply, a genius. He's already won the Philip K. Dick award for his first novel and his first book with us is phenomenal. Liesel Schwarz is a fantastic new talent and her debut is a wonderful Steampunk adventure full of action, suspense and passion which will have readers begging for more. Django Wexler's The Penitent Da...
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Ebury Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of Del Rey - its new SF and Fantasy imprint which will begin publishing in early 2013.
The imprint will enjoy a close day-to-day relationship with the prestigious Random House US imprint of the same name, acquiring authors jointly, where possible, and working together on coordinated and integrated marketing and publicity campaigns. In addition, Ebury's Del Rey will acquire authors expressly for the UK market.
Del Rey Editorial Director, Michael Rowley commented ‘I am delighted that Ebury's SF and Fantasy list will be working closely with our US sister imprint Del Ray. The Del Rey imprint has a history and reputation that is second to n...
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Vintage Publishing has won Best Marketing Campaign of the Year at the Book Marketing Society's inaugural Best Marketing Campaign of the Year Awards, winning for its hardback and e-book campaign for THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern.The campaign, managed by Vicki Watson, Dan Franklin, Bethan Jones & Roger Bratchell also won the best Breakthrough campaign award, beating the campaigns for both...
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In the UK to date, E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has sold in excess of 4 million copies in physical and ebooks combined - including sales in overseas territories such as Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa. In America the trilogy has sold 15 million copies in the US and Canada in 3 months.Fifty Shades of Grey is officially the fastest selling book of 2012 in the UK, in both physical and ebook formats. Figures released on Tuesday 19th June show the UK physical sales of Fifty Shades of Grey now stand at 765,000 copies and the book has held the Number 1 position in the charts for a 10th week. The trilogy has hel...
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Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Commonwealth Book Prize 2012 for his debut novel, Chinaman (Vintage Publishing). The prize, worth £10000, was awarded at the Hay Festival.Shehan Karunatilaka was born in Galle, Sri Lanka. He studied Business and Administration at Massey University in New Zealand, after which he worked as an advertising copywriter. He has also written rock songs, travel stories and basslines."It's incredible considering where the book began. I wasn't certain that it would be published outside of Colombo when I was writing it. I was surprised to make it to the final five, considering how strong the Asia shortlist was. To win it is quite crazy. Now I just need to find a pub...
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The May edition of the Vintage Podcast is now available to download here.
In the May Podcast we catch-up backstage with Irvine Welsh to talk about how his new novel Skagboys was nearly lost, find out why Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel A Death in the Family has caused such a stir in Norway, we talk about Czech resistance fighters with prize-winning Laurent Binet and if that's not enough, Paul Durcan also joined us to read a poem from his new collection.
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