Sphere bags 'riotously funny' Myers rom-com

Callum Kenny, editor for Sphere fiction, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, for two new novels from Justin Myers. Rights were acquired from Becky Thomas at Johnson & Alcock.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 13:07:57 UTC ]
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Sphere bags 'riotously funny' Myers rom-com

Callum Kenny, editor for Sphere fiction, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, for two new novels from Justin Myers. Rights were acquired from Becky Thomas at Johnson & Alcock.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Sphere has announced Irish journalist Edel Coffey’s debut novel, Breaking Point, will be a superlead for the publisher in 2022, following a multi-publisher auction and six-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Sphere bags LaManna's 'addictive' thriller in four-way auction

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‘Time-efficient foreplay’: inside the funny, filthy world of erotic podcasts

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William Boyd on his friend Martin Amis: ‘He was ferociously intelligent – and very funny’

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10 New Bookish Tote Bags for Your Latest Library or Bookstore Haul

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Live from New York: Curtis Sittenfeld on Dating Up, Writing Funny, and How SNL and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Are Alike

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Jesse Myers Named President and CEO of Baker Publishing

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