HB: More congratulations in order. Louise Berridge - who writes terrific swashbuckling historical dramas, but with some real depth and writerly pizzazz thrown into the mix - has just been taken on with maximum enthusiasm by AM Heath.
Meanwhile, another client, Philip Goldkayn, has been taken on by AM Heath and his MS is in front of publishers right now. If I were a publisher (God forbid!), I'd definitely offer on that book. It's a thriller that's also a perfect whodunnit type mystery and also has a really intriguing and non-standard central character. The best of genre fiction.
And congrats too to Leigh Ferrani & Ron Shephard. Ron is Britain's most married man (he's on wife #8 at the moment, and tabloid photographers are there to snap the happy couple at each new wedding anniversary). Leigh - one of our wonderful ghosts - drafted up the first few chapters of a memoir for Ron, and she's just secured an offer of representation from the agent Lorella Belli, who'll be looking to start selling the proposal as soon as editors are back from Frankfurt.
We've got other MSS heading off to agents as well, and I've high expectations for some of them. All of a sudden, this getting published lark is almost starting to feel easy. But it isn't of course. The usual monster congratulations to all our successful clients.
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Thanks, Harry, but a minor rap on the knuckles is also due for omitting to mention my wonderful Writers' Workshop editor Michelle Lovric, who identified the book's central flaw, came up with an idea to put it right, suggested a new title, and basically produced a Gucci handbag out of a pig's testacle. Then there was that chap with the receding hairline and the name like an anagram, the one who wrote personally to the agent and hypnotised her into loving the book before she'd even read it.
Seems easy? Maybe - but with a little help from our friends.
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