Taking a Punt on a New Name

When David Shelley, publisher of Little, Brown U.K., arrived at a lunch to meet a potential new author named Robert Galbraith, he instead found a blonde woman sitting next to agent Neil Blair. "When she turned round I had the surprise of my life. She said, ‘I'm Jo.'" Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Taking a Punt on a New Name

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