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News 22 March 2007
New Acquisition:
Mainstream is delighted to have acquired world rights to THE OTHER MRS JORDAN, A True Story of Bigamy, Betrayal and a Fake CIA Agent. In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that was to blow her life apart. The woman on the other end of the line calmly told her that she and Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married for fourteen years and had five children together. Mary is an intelligent, independent woman. This is the story of how she was manipulated and left near bankrupt by a shameless conman who claimed to be a CIA agent to cover his frequent unexplained absences, creating fake e-mail addresses, web sites and mobile phone numbers to back up his lies about his job in the secret service. Ailsa Bathgate, Senior Editor at Mainstream bought world rights direct from the author. Agent Jenny Brown controls Film and TV and is currently negotiating both documentary and dramatic rights. For further information contact fiona.brownlee@mainstreampublishing.com
Rights Sold:
SINCE I WAS A PRINCESS, one of Mainstream's lead titles for Spring 2007 is selling almost as quickly as we send it out. In the last two weeks we have sold it to Arena in The Netherlands, Bertelsman in Poland and Euromedia in the Czech Republic. It has previously been sold to Luebbe in Germany and Record in Brazil
Record and Bertelsman have also bought her first book, ONCE I WAS A PRINCESS as part of a two book deal. Rights have also been sold to Mladinksa Knijiga in Slovenia.
Bestsellers:
At the Random House Sales Conference this month Mainstream was proud to be described as 'the missing piece' of the Random House jigsaw by Gil Hess. We had three bestsellers in the non-fiction bestseller list in Ireland in the run up to Christmas and turnover there has increased dramatically in the last two years.
Publicity:
It has been an amazing couple of weeks for publicity. Sarah Goodall, author of THE PALACE DIARIES, was on Richard and Judy on Monday 12 March and This Morning on Monday 19 March. HEAT have given it a four star review this week and it is due to be reviewed in STAR magazine in April.
Marc Nicol has been on Sky News and had three slots at 6.30am, 7.10am and 8.10am on GMTV on Tuesday 20 March.He was on Radio 5 on 22nd March and will be on This Morning on Monday 26th March giving CONDOR BLUES yet more publicity.
The Daily Mail reviewed AFTER THEY KILLED OUR FATHER on Friday 16 March describing it as 'a story full of anguish, tears, rage and yearning'. Loung Ung's profile appeared in The Sunday Times on Sunday 18 March in which she movingly describes her decision not to have children as 'a fear that if something happened to the child. I haven't had anybody I loved die in a long time, since I left Cambodia in fact. I think if it happened I would have complete meltdown.'
Events During the London Book Fair:
Monday 16 April – Launch for WHITE CARGO at The Chelsea Arts Club, Mayfair 6.30-8.30pm. Invitation only.
Tuesday 17 April – Launch for SINCE I WAS A PRINCESS at Claridges. Charity dinner in aid of CARE International to be attended by Jerry Hall, Shakira Caine, Jackie Collins and Barry Humphries. Tickets cost £200 / head. To purchase a ticket or for further information contact bayram@careinternational.org
And Finally...
Fiona Brownlee was delighted to have been chosen as a fellow at the Jerusalem Book Fair last month. (See picture left for publishers swimming in the Dead Sea).
It was an extraordinary experience and a great networking opportunity. Amy Mitchell takes on the globetrotter mantle in May when she will attend the Book Fair in Turin funded by the International Book Forum in Italy.