The Independent on Sunday 24 September 2006 Publishers will be biting their nails between now and Christmas. With an estimated 60 celebrity memoirs hitting the shops, some with eye-watering advances to earn back, they’ll be praying for a bestseller. Danuta Kean surveys the field and finds out about the all-important
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The Author Autumn 2006
Daisy Goodwin has got herself into a spat about whether men can write romance. Predictably the newspapers have waded in pointing to Emma Bovery and Anna Karenina – both dead a long time. It would be nice to hear a few more recent examples of romance from men. Whatever. Having
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The Author It has taken a long time coming, but at last trade publishers are taking seriously the opportunities offered by the Internet and email to not just market books direct to consumers, but to bypass the high street and sell direct too. The past 12 months have witnessed a
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