News
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'What Editors Want' generates interest
16 Jan 2013
The agency’s annual series of articles asking ‘What Editors Want’ has generated a lot of media interest this year, including the following…
The articles are also generating a lot of discussion and debate on the agency website. They can be found here:
What Fiction Editors Want 2013
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Another Forgotten Child is no 14
15 Jan 2013
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest fostering memoir remains in the top twenty paperback non-fiction list.
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Launch of 'Afghanistan Revealed'
13 Jan 2013
Last night saw the launch of Afghanistan Revealed at the Royal United Services Institute, with attendees including General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, and Sandy Gaul.
The book features a chapter from agency author Bijan Omrani. Other contributors include Ahmed Rashid and the BBC’s David Loyn. The e-book has been published to raise money for the Afghanistan Appeal Fund, which raises money to build schools in Afghanistan.
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What Editors Want 2013
12 Jan 2013
Each year, the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency surveys a wide range of leading publishers and editors to find out what kinds of books they are hoping to acquire in the coming year. These pieces are always among the most popular articles on the agency website, providing some fascinating insights for anyone involved in publishing.
This year, for the first time, the agency has produced three separate features, respectively covering UK non-fiction, UK fiction, and US publishing:
http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/2013/01/12/what-fiction-editors-want http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/2013/01/12/what-uk-non-fiction-editors http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/2013/01/12/what-us-editors-want-2013
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Cathy Glass's Another Forgotten Child is no 14
08 Jan 2013
Cathy Glass’s Another Forgotten Child remains in the top 20 paperback non-fiction list at number 14.
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The Girl With No Name now sold in a dozen territories
07 Jan 2013
With the recent sale in Denmark, Marina Chapman’s memoir of being brought up by monkeys in the Columbian jungle, The Girl with no Name, has clocked up a dozen rights sales plus two serials and a two hour documentary to National Geographic. The book is published worldwide in April.
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Four Desmond Seward biographies to be reissued by Crux
07 Jan 2013
E book publisher Crux have licensed rights in Desmond Seward’s Richard 111, Eugenie, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Napoleon & Hitler.
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Two new Lawrence James books to Weidenfeld
07 Jan 2013
Lawrence James has followed his editor Alan Samson from Little Brown to Weidenfeld for two separately contracted titles:
Churchill and the British Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist , looking at how Winston Churchill’s view of Empire changed over the course of his political career , will be published in July.
Divide, Conquer and Rule: The European Powers and Africa, 1840-1970 will embrace the imperial experience of Africa between the early conquests of France in Algeria and Britain in South Africa to the independence movements of the mid-twentieth century and will be published in 2015.
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Favourite Books of 2012 features in Lost in Fiction
07 Jan 2013
The agency’s poll of its writers for the best book read in 2012, won by Alan Partridge’s I Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan , features in Lost in Fiction at
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The Bookseller: Andrew Lownie developing fiction list
07 Jan 2013
The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency has appointed David Haviland to build a fiction list, with the agency having previously specialised in non-fiction…
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/andrew-lownie-grow-fiction.html
