News 18 April 2003

Fiona Brownlee will be abandoning her baby to attend Book Expo in Los Angeles from Friday May 30th - Sunday June 1st. Mainstream will be on the Scottish Publishers Stand # 2551. If you are attending and would like to set up an appointment please contact her at fiona.brownlee@mainstreampublishing.com

We have signed some exciting new titles since the London Book Fair!

Film producer, Rowland Perkins, will be taking FRAMED to the Cannes Film Festival next month.

BBC on-line has launched a list of the Best (and Worst) sports books of all time. We are delighted to be able to say that THE GLORY GAME by Hunter Davies (Mainstream Sport, £7.99) has made it in to the list of the best. Not so happy that PLAYGROUNDS OF THE GODS by Ian Stafford has been nominated in both categories! To view the list and vote for your own favourite sports book go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/2953391.stm

YORKSHIRE ENCOUNTERS will be launched on Thursday 24th April at the Black Sheep Brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire. If you are in the area and fancy a pint let us know! Mainstream Managing Directors, Bill Campbell and Peter MacKenzie and Publicity Manager, Sharon Atherton will be there. YORKSHIRE ENCOUNTERS is by Linn Watts who works for W H Smith. It has an introduction by the Godfather of chat shows and proud Yorkshireman Michael Parkinson.

OTHER PUBLICITY:

Emma Tennant is writing pieces for THE EVENING STANDARD MAGAZINE (ES) and THE TIMES to coincide with the publication of TED AND SYLVIA.

THE DAILY MAIL has confirmed that it will be reviewing HELL'S PRISONER and the book will be extracted in MAXIM magazine.

MASTERMINDS OF TERROR will be extracted in THE SUNDAY TIMES on May 8th and in JACK magazine which goes on sale on May 15th.

JOHN CHARLES is going to be reviewed in the Independent on May 5th.

And Finally...

Tom Callahan, author of IN SEARCH OF TIGER, visited the Mainstream offices on Tuesday. After a long and entertaining dinner he was dispatched to London (presumably nursing a mild hangover!) where he has been locked in Broadcasting House doing back-to-back BBC interviews.