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Choc Lit has acquired a contemporary romance novel, recommended to the publisher by WH Smith Travel fiction buyer Matt Bates. Lyn Vernham, m.d. of the independent women’s fiction publisher, bought world rights to Sheryl Browne’s book, currently called For the Rest of My Life, direct from the author. Vernham heard about the book from Bates, who read the manuscript after meeting Browne at the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Annual Conference. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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