HB: The weekly congratulations notice: to Julie Hough, who's secured an Italian agent for her novel Caribbean Sunset. Big congrats to her. Oh, and a last minute congrats to Lucy Beresford, who (having got a book deal for her novel some time ago) has now followed up with a short story published in the London Magazine. We helped with both, but Lucy had star potential from the off.
But now a word on titles. 4th Estate is bringing out the paperback of Little Britain on St George's Day next year. No decisions have yet been taken on rejacketing it. Option 1 is just to stick with the existing (lovely, beautiful, comical) cover - that's the chap drinking tea on the right hand side of this page. Option 2 is to go with something a bit more commercial, a bit more obvious, a bit more flag-waving, in short. Allen Lane (a hardback imprint of Penguin's) has done a very nice cover for a new book on sport (see above), so it can be done in an un-crass way.
4th Estate are a pretty innovative bunch - which is a solidly good thing - but they are times when the right way to innovate is to go solidly traditional. Me, I'm not sure. None of my books have ever sold in huge volumes, so it's not as though I know the formula ...
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