It's been a bit of a day today.
First up, monster congratulations to Roy Carter. His MS - a Vatican thriller, yes, but not in any way a Dan Brown knock-off - has been taken on by David Smith at the Annette Green Agency. David loves the MS and is planning to race it straight out to publishers next week. Massive fingers crossing involved in that.
Roy has really done a lot of work on this MS. He had a stunning plot and premise to start with, and the resultant novel has really done justice - more than justice - to that original conception. I think it's got a searingly clever concept and denouement and could do really well. I hope so.
Secondly, massive congrats to the double act of Lata Pattni and Leigh Ferrani. Leigh has ghosted a book proposal for Lata based on Lata's own remarkable story of adversity and triumph. That book proposal has been taken on by a top London agency and will be going out to publishers before too much longer.
Lata is both a very nice person and a very courageous one, so thoroughly deserves success. Leigh has done a wonderful job with the story, so she'll have jolly well earned whatever comes her way as a result of this. Also, it's a good illustration of how a really positive collaboration between subject and ghost is essential to producing a good work. Wherever that collaboration falters or is uncommitted or has the wrong chemistry, the resultant MS is always flawed.
Fingers crossed for all concerned.
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