News 22 March 2006

New Acquisition:

Mainstream is delighted to have acquired the rights to THE JAN DE VRIES GUIDE TO HEALTH AND VITALITY by the world-renowned alternative health guru. Packed full of useful tips and revealing new case studies, the book covers a wide range of issues and offers advice on how to keep fit and healthy; give up common addictions such as alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and sugar; prevent allergies; maintain a healthy digestive system and achieve optimum fertility. Jan de Vries has written extensively on alternative health and has recently been featured in Essentials magazine, Image magazine and The Independent on Sunday. He is greatly admired by his peers:

'Jan de Vries has done an immeasurable amount to make natural health and complementary therapies seem user-friendly over his years of practice' - Here's Health magazine.

Ines I can personally endorse his work. When I lost a baby I was extremely run down emotionally and physically. He worked tirelessly to ensure I was strong enough to get pregnant again and when I did he monitored me for the duration of my pregnancy. I am sure that his advice and various potions contributed to the healthy birth of Ines who is now ten months old. For further information - about the book rather than my baby! - please contact fiona.brownlee@mainstreampublishing.com

Rights Sales:

In the wake of the London Book Fair rights sales roll in:
THE END OF TIME has been sold to Words and Book In Korea (c/o Book Cosmos)
NO ONE TAKES MY CHILDREN has been sold to City in France by our French agent, Michelle Lapautre.
ONCE I WAS A PRINCESS has been sold to Sinisukk in Estonia and ROSSLYN AND THE GRAIL to Rao in Romania (both c/o Ilene Kreshka at Transnet).
ROSSLYN AND THE GRAIL has also sold to to Volvox Globator in the Czech Republic by our sub agent Berenika Ovcackova.

Publicity:

Kate Barlow, author of THE ABODE OF LOVE, will be visiting the UK in the first week of April for publicity. BBC Radio Four's Women's Hour have confirmed an interview for Tuesday, 4 April. That's the same day as her Prima interview hits the shelves and will be preceded by a piece written by Kate to appear in The Independent on Sunday, 2 April. Canadian rights have been sold to Goose Lane and Australian rights to Random House.
The Abode of Love refers to a religious cult which was led by her grandfather. The home of the cult was Spaxton, Somerset, after her grandfather and his followers were run out of their church, the Ark of the Covenant, in London. The church is still standing on Rookwood Road, London, N16. (Stamford Hill station / Seven Sisters)

Walter Ellis, author of THE BEGINNING OF THE END, has been in the UK to publicise his book. In addition to the plethora of interviews listed in the last last newsletter he was interviewed on BBC Radio Four's Loose Ends on 18 March. The book has also been reviewed in The Daily Mail, Inependent on Sunday, The Spectator and Scotland on Sunday.

BOXING'S HALL OF SHAME by Thomas Myler is destined to be a big hit. All it took was an email round to our radio contacts and 15 minutes later we had 10 confirmed interviews. Front magazine are extremely interested in running an extract which will coincide with a review in Zoo Weekly. Lads Mag have also confirmed a review and competition to appear around publication date.
Kevin Francis, who writes the column 'Boxing Clever' in The Express, will give it a mention and we have also had confirmed interest from the Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Sunday Times and The People.

Donya Al-Nahi, author of NO ONE TAKES MY CHILDREN, has just been interviewed for Belgian national newspaper De Morgen to promote the Belgian edition of her book.

Diane Blood, author of FLESH OF BLOOD, was in great demand by the British media when the Natalie Evans (frozen embryo) case hit the headlines last week. She was interviewed on Sky News, BBC News 24, BBC News at 6pm and Independent Radio News.

Events:

The Cheltenham Literary Festival have confirmed that they would like to invite Magnus Magnusson (FAKES, FORGERS AND PHONEYS).

And Finally...

What is it with editorial? While the rest of us are slaving away Kevin O'Brien has been to Australia, Graeme Blaikie has been to India and Paul Murphy nipped over to NYC for the weekend.

Some of us have to make do with a business trip to the London Book Fair!