Publishing process – Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk UK Literary Agent Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:25:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is the No.1 New York Times Bestseller http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/eleanor-oliphant-is-completely-fine-by-gail-honeyman-is-the-no-1-new-york-times-bestseller/ Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:28:26 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/?p=16134 We are completely thrilled to announce that Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is the No.1 New York Times Bestseller, one week after the paperback… Read More

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We are completely thrilled to announce that Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is the No.1 New York Times Bestseller, one week after the paperback publication.

With the book having now sold more than a million copies across all formats in the UK, it is thrilling to see a similar reaction to the unique story across the pond. Of course, the hardback was also welcomed with open arms, with Reese Witherspoon describing it as “Beautifully written and incredibly funny… I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger.” 

Witherspoon has optioned the film rights to the book, and plans to star in the adaptation.

Gail is currently on tour in the US where they celebrated Eleanor Oliphant Day with widespread participation in bookshops and on social media, with librarians and readers across the country also joining in.

The novel sold into three further territories this week to hit an incredible 40 languages. It has also been No.1 on the UK Sunday Times Bestseller List for 10 weeks and in the top 10 for 30 weeks, winning the Costa First Novel Award and two British Book Awards. It is also up for the Desmond Elliot Prize later this week.

Congratulations Gail on your global success – as Penguin Books said, Eleanor is No.1 in the charts and in our hearts. We couldn’t be prouder.

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How Do You Like Me Now? by Holly Bourne publishes today http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/how-do-you-like-me-now-by-holly-bourne-publishes-today/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:00:19 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/?p=16115 Holly Bourne has made a name for herself writing relatable, hilarious and powerful young adult fiction. It was only a matter of time before… Read More

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Holly Bourne has made a name for herself writing relatable, hilarious and powerful young adult fiction. It was only a matter of time before she turned her hand to an adult book, and her debut How Do You Like Me Now? publishes today in hardback with Hodder.

The book was optioned by Ecosse Films for TV shortly after Hodder pre-empted the book in 2017 and its publication has been eagerly awaited ever since. Red included it in their books of 2018, The Bookseller named it June’s Book of the Month and just this week it has won Book Wars in Stylist magazine and received a rapturous review in the Evening Standardwho called it: “truly a f***ing good novel.”

It’s not just the media who love Holly’s adult offering though, writers including Marian Keyes have been raving about it, saying: “This book is so good, and so honest about being a woman.”

The novel centres around Tori Bailey, a bestselling memoirist who makes a living telling others how to live their best lives whilst her own is falling apart. With the tagline: “Turning thirty is like playing musical chairs. The music stops, and everyone just marries whoever they happen to be sitting on”How Do You Like Me Now? explores what it’s like to be a woman turning thirty, the pressures of the world around us and the cavern between the lives we project and the ones we actually lead. Here’s a video where Holly tells you a little more about the book.

Congratulations Holly – your adult debut is electrifying, and we’re thrilled to see readers already responding with such acclaim.

 

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Leah Mercer shortlisted for RNA Award http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/leah-mercer-shortlisted-rna-award/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 11:07:00 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/?p=14868 Leah Mercer‘s novel The Man I Thought You Were has been shortlisted for a Romantic Novel Association Award in the Epic Romantic Novel category. Leah’s debut… Read More

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Leah Mercer‘s novel The Man I Thought You Were has been shortlisted for a Romantic Novel Association Award in the Epic Romantic Novel category.

Leah’s debut novel Who We Were Before was also shortlisted last year for an RNA Award, so it’s familiar territory for this bestselling author. A heart-breaking, moving and hugely compelling read, The Man I Thought You Were is a deserved contender for the epic romantic category.

One fine autumn evening, Anna returns home to cook for her husband, Mark. It’s just like any other day in their ten-year, Pinterest-perfect marriage – until he says he’s leaving her.

Discovering that the man she thought she knew better than anyone else is capable of abandoning it all sends Anna reeling. She believed that the life they’d built together – and the bright future they’d imagined – counted for everything. How can he walk away?

Mark is battling with secrets of his own – secrets Anna knows nothing about. A painful past and an uncertain future threaten to bring his life down around him, and he’ll do anything not to expose her to that.

But unravelling the past is lonelier than Mark could ever have imagined, and as the days turn to months, Anna worries the distance will break them forever. Can she bring him back from the brink of self-destruction before it’s too late, or did she ever really know him at all?

The winner will be announced at the RNA Awards, held on 5th March and we have no doubt that this’ll be the year Leah clinches it!

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Paperback publication for The Whitstable High-Tide Swimming Club by Katie May http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/paperback-publication-whitstable-high-tide-swimming-club-katie-may/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:00:25 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/?p=14866 You may have seen Parts 1, 2 & 3 of The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club making waves on your social media over the last… Read More

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You may have seen Parts 1, 2 & 3 of The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club making waves on your social media over the last few months in eBook, but today you can finally get the full novel in paperback.

The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club by Katie May takes you through a year in the life of Deb (fraying bikini, sunglasses), Maisie (black wetsuit, swimming shoes, goggles) and the other high tide swimmers. Ultimately, it’s a book about the power of female friendship, that never loses sight of the complicated truths behind the lives of women who – from the outside – seem to take everything in their stride. It’s also a song to the Katie’s home town of Whitstable, where the sea is smooth, the shingle is painful on bare feet, and the air is full of possibilities.

Only the truly devoted manage to swim every day at Whitstable, because the sea’s only deep enough at high tide. So when Deb and Maisie keep meeting on Reeves Beach, they strike up an unlikely friendship based on their love of swimming and their recent divorces.

They swim early in the morning and late at night; through sea-fogs, rain and glorious sunny days. Soon, they are joined by other high tide swimmers, each with a crisis of their own to weather. Ann, a bossy organiser, is caring for her elderly mother at home; Julie has somehow (although she’s not quite sure how) managed to produce three children under school age; and Chloe, a bright, brittle girl of fifteen, finds calmness in the water. Quiet, anxious Bill is initially thought to be a peeping Tom, before being welcomed into the heart of the club.

When the swimmers discover plans for their beach to be paved over for a leisure complex, they find a higher purpose that bonds them together, and exposes their fragile worlds to public scrutiny.

Congratulations Katie – we can’t wait for readers to dip a toe in, and for the book to make a huge splash!

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Kindle First launch for Fiona Valpy and Caroline Mitchell http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/kindle-first-launch-fiona-valpy-caroline-mitchell/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:00:17 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/?p=14841 Two MM Agency authors are launched into Kindle First today – Fiona Valpy with Sea of Memories and Caroline Mitchell with Silent Victim. Sea of Memories is a… Read More

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Two MM Agency authors are launched into Kindle First today – Fiona Valpy with Sea of Memories and Caroline Mitchell with Silent Victim.

Sea of Memories is a beautiful, dual-timeline historical romance novel, from the bestselling author of The French For series, Fiona Valpy. When Kendra Dalrymple is asked to visit her grandmother Ella in an old age home, she doesn’t know what to expect. Kendra has her own problems to deal with: a disabled son, a newly-redundant husband and a full-time job as a teacher. Ella wants Kendra to write the story of her life before her memory fades and, she is swiftly taken back to a beautiful small island off the coast of France where a young Ella met a boy called Christophe and fell in love so deeply, only one thing could tear it apart: another World War.

Silent Victim is the next tense thriller from USA Today bestselling author Caroline Mitchell. Emma is a loving wife, a devoted mother…and an involuntary killer. For years she’s been hiding the dead body of the teacher who seduced her as a teen. It’s a secret that might have stayed buried if only her life had been less perfect. But with a buyer lined up for their old house, Emma can’t leave without destroying every last trace of her final revenge… Returning to the shallow grave in the garden, she finds it empty. The body is gone. Panicked, Emma confesses to her husband. But this is only the beginning. Soon, Alex will discover things about her he’ll wish he’d learned sooner. And others he’ll long to forget.

Both books are published on 1st March, but for the whole of February, Prime readers can download both books for free – and we highly recommend that you do. The last agency author entered for the scheme, Teresa Driscoll, sold over 200,000 copies of I Am Watching You in under 5 months, hitting No.1 in the US, UK and Australian charts. We’re sure both Fiona and Caroline’s books will see the same sort of success!

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Baby. Boom! by Helen Wallen publishes today http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/baby-boom-helen-wallen-publishes-today/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:58:09 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/?p=14800 Inspired by Helen Wallen‘s award-winning blog, Just a Normal Mummy, BABY. BOOM! is a funny and unfiltered no-holds-barred account of three best friends’ journey… Read More

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Inspired by Helen Wallen‘s award-winning blog, Just a Normal Mummy, BABY. BOOM! is a funny and unfiltered no-holds-barred account of three best friends’ journey through pregnancy, life and relationships – and it’s published today by Hodder.

No one said the journey to motherhood was easy…

Increased face-girth, back acne and gagging every time she’s in the presence of vegetables isn’t quite the beautiful start Emily had planned for her unborn baby…

Molly’s unexpected pregnancy somehow turns her boyfriend into the poncy-vegan-nut-milk-enforcer, but she breezes it, as she breezes everything. (Including still being able to eat avocados much to Emily’s annoyance.)

Liz quickly realises if she’s to move her life on, she needs to get rid of the married man she’s in love with – especially now she’s realised he’s been hiding more than his wedding ring…

It’s a story about becoming parents, but most of all it’s a story about love, laughter and chatting to your best friends about your fanny on WhatsApp

Huge congratulations Helen!

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UK Publication Day for The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/uk-publication-day-for-the-chalk-man-by-c-j-tudor/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:01:53 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/?p=14740 For months we have been warning people that he is coming, and now he is finally here: The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor is published today… Read More

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For months we have been warning people that he is coming, and now he is finally here: The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor is published today in the UK by Penguin Random House / Michael Joseph, following the US launch on Tuesday 9th January.

Fellow authors, readers and booksellers have all been caught up in the excitement surrounding The Chalk Man, hailed by Michael Joseph as the biggest thriller of 2018. With an audio book narrated by Andrew Scott and Asa Butterfield, a cover to instill fear into the heart of any reader, and a story so captivating you’ll need to read it in one sitting, we’re sure it will live up to the acclaim.

You can find out even more about C.J. Tudor in her Penguin Podcast with Konnie Huq, which also includes a few more extracts from the audiobook and five objects that inspired her writing (including a Stephen King book and a glass dolphin).

Here are just a selection of quotes that have come in over the past months and weeks, in case you were in any doubt of just how explosive this twisting, terryifying novel is:

“The Chalk Man is coming there’s nothing you can do to stop him. Tense, skilful storytelling and plenty of horror.”
Ali Land, bestselling author of Good Me, Bad Me

“C.J. Tudor knows the twelve-year-old who still lives in all of us, that kid who chills himself to the bone with an intuition of what lurks in the woods, or in his own closet, and The Chalk Man walks the haunted bridge between then and now—between sheer childhood terrors and a true crime so grisly and personal it’s cold hand never leaves the back of your neck.  Suburban adolescents on bikes, squeamish love, nascent sexuality meets adult-world obsession and lust and violence…and through it all runs an affecting story of friendship, loss, and the inescapable frailties of mind and body.”
Tim Johnston,  bestselling author of Descent

“Imaginative, with an intriguing premise that straddles two fascinating worlds.  It’s a frenetic ride that’s deep and alluring, oozing with suspense.  A rollicking good time.”
Steve Berry,  bestselling author of The 14th Colony

What a great book, echoes of The Body by King, a twisty thriller, and downright creepy ending. 5 stars.”
Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes

Absolutely brilliant. I was enthralled from start to finish. I was expecting a creepy horror story that I’d have to read with all the lights on but this book is so much more than that – it’s witty, insightful, clever, thoughtful, mysterious, gripping, nostalgic and utterly compelling. Publishers often talk about ‘an exciting new voice in fiction’ and I genuinely think CJ Tudor is going to be huge. This book has bestseller written all over it and if it doesn’t go to number one I will eat my crime writing hat.”
C.L. Taylor, bestselling author of The Escape

“Haven’t had a sleepless night due to a book for a long time. The Chalk Man changed that. Many congrats C. J Tudor.”
Fiona Barton, bestselling author of The Widow

“In The Chalk Man, C.J. Tudor brilliantly weaves past and present into a haunting, vividly imagined tale. Much more than a murder mystery, it is a sharp, terrifying exploration of the bonds and limitations of childhood friendships and of secrets that refuse to remain buried. I fell in love with the guiding voice of this novel, the thoughtful and solitary Eddie. Prepare to be surprised again and again, even until the final page.”
Michelle Richmond, author of The Marriage Pact

“CJ Tudor has written an utterly original novel—a thriller in which the suspense comes not simply from what happens, but from that dark place within the human mind from which all the greatest mysteries and terrors emerge.  This one will hold you in its grip to the last page.”
Joyce Maynard, bestselling author of Under the Influence and To Die For

“I am not the biggest reader since becoming an author myself, but devoured it in two sittings. Kept me up until five in the morning. Wonderfully written. I loved it!”
Kimberley Chambers

“I finally finished The Chalk Man in the wee small hours this morning…it’s been a while since I’ve read such an impressive debut. The pace was perfectly judged, with a lovely feel of Stand By Me about the 1986 scenes and beguiling nostalgia in the contemporary narrative, all mixed in with a creeping sense of unease that starts with the Prologue and grows throughout the book. The characters were superbly drawn…And then that ending.”
James Oswald

“What an amazing debut! Such an ingenious, original idea. I was engrossed from the very first page. I loved how the 1986 and present day storylines weaved so skilfully together to create that unforgettable and unexpected ending. Compelling, taut and so very, very chilling. This book will haunt you!”
Claire Douglas, Sunday Times bestselling author of Last Seen Alive

“The grip the past has on the present reveals itself in ever more sinister and macabre ways in this utterly original and relentlessly compelling psychological thriller. The Chalk Man kept me guessing all the way to the end.”
Fiona Neill, author of The Betrayals

“The Chalk Man is an unpredictable and engaging thriller: sinister, tragic, and with a beautifully rendered sense of time and place. That final page still haunts me”
Helen Callaghan, bestselling author of Dear Amy

‘C.J. Tudor bursts onto the scene with a page-turning thriller that draws simple but terrifying lines about evil and the haunting nature of childhood. Flip open the first page and you’ll curl up all night.’
Julia Heaberlin, Sunday Times bestselling author of Black Eyed Susans

“I enjoyed it from start to finish.  It brought back so clearly what it was like to be at school, to deal with adults and that awful feeling of tension and almost morbid curiosity and embarrassment when you begin to realise that they are human and have feelings too (god forbid!). As well as being unputdownable, it was emotionally intelligent, touching and credible.”
Emma Curtis

“One of the best books I’ve read since I first read Stephen King’ s IT when I was 14. Go get it!”
Rachel Burton, author of The Many Colours of Us

“Tudor’s sharp eye for detail and ear for dialogue lend the childhood scenes an immediacy and authenticity that completely convince. With its driving plot and sensitive evocation of friendship and loneliness, The Chalk Man is an utterly gripping read, with an ending that will make the hairs on the back of your neck bristle.”
Karen Perry

“An intriguing puzzle with an engaging cast of characters . . . highly promising debut”
Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week

“The buzz started months ago for this tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending, in which the past catches up with a group of friends. Has been compared to Stephen King”
Sunday Times

 

Congratulations once again Caz, we are thrilled for you and your unique and terrifying creation!

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US rights in The Year I Didn’t Eat by Samuel Pollen snapped up by Bonnier http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/us-rights-year-didnt-eat-samuel-pollen-snapped-bonnier/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:54:56 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/?p=14731 We’re delighted to share the news that Samuel Pollen‘s debut The Year I Didn’t Eat has sold to Bonnier USA’s imprint Yellow Jacket. North… Read More

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We’re delighted to share the news that Samuel Pollen‘s debut The Year I Didn’t Eat has sold to Bonnier USA’s imprint Yellow Jacket. North American rights were acquired by editor Sonali Fry from Alice Sutherland-Hawes, for publication in Spring 2019.

The book charts the story of fourteen year old Max, a boy suffering from anorexia, over a year of his life through diary extracts and Max’s narrative. Drawing from Pollen’s own experience of being a teenage boy with the disease, it’s a heart-breaking, deeply affecting and surprisingly funny book, which sheds light on a subject often swept under the table.

Editor, Sonali Fry, said “Samuel has done a fantastic job chronicling a year in the life of boy suffering from anorexia. While most people associate this disease with women, the men who have it are always overlooked. I think this truly is an important story that needs to be told.”

Congratulations Sam, on a wonderfully bold, important debut – bring on 2019!

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US paperback publication day for The Widow by Fiona Barton http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/us-paperback-publication-day-widow-fiona-barton/ http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/us-paperback-publication-day-widow-fiona-barton/#respond Tue, 26 Dec 2017 11:00:00 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/staging17/?p=14031 Christmas may be over, but the presents are still coming! Described by People magazine as “A twisted psychological thriller you’ll have trouble putting down”,… Read More

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Christmas may be over, but the presents are still coming! Described by People magazine as “A twisted psychological thriller you’ll have trouble putting down”, the US mass market paperback of The Widow is out today.

The New York Times bestselling debut by Fiona Barton has sold over half a million copies worldwide and has been named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly.

To celebrate, we’re sharing this article from Publisher’s Weekly where Barton tells us about what inspires her, and the enticing topic of secrets.


For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret. As a child, it was the keeping of secrets—the invented adventures playing in my head, the notes in invisible ink and the unspoken fear of monsters under the bed.

Then as I grew and started reading books from my parents’ bookshelves, I discovered the thrill of finding out other people’s private thoughts and actions. It began with detective stories—Sherlock Holmes and his powers of deduction, and the shoals of red herrings in Agatha Christie’s novels. The “ta da!” of a heavily concealed denouement.

But it was Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca that stopped me in my tracks. From the hypnotic first line—“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”—I was drawn deep into this tragic love story and its gothic horror. I was no longer the observer of amateur detectives’ cleverness; I lived every moment of the tense, unsettling, and compelling narrative and was caught in the fabric of lies and silence that surrounded the real story. I was hooked. It was the first time I had been faced with the revelation that we can never really know anyone completely—even, or perhaps especially, those we love.

It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover the truth about people became a job. The questions I asked myself constantly when interviewing people were, “What do they know?”, “What are they not telling?”, “Why are they not telling?” Because I had to know. I still do. Now I unpick the web of deceit as a writer of psychological thrillers, starting with 2016’s The Widow and now, The Child.

And I am very much not alone. The psychological thriller has been with us at least since 1938, when du Maurier wrote her masterpiece, but with the international bestsellers Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train leading the way, I suspect we are witnessing the genre’s true flowering.

There is much speculation about why now. Perhaps it is because we live in an age when everything can be known and therefore, so much more must be hidden. We may like to pretend otherwise, but we all have thoughts we don’t want anyone else to know, things we’ve done that would change the way people feel about us, or parts of our lives that we would rather forget. For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some of us, our secret may threaten to destroy everything. And that is food and drink to a novelist.

Hidden lives: that’s what makes me write.

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Michelle Elman’s debut Am I Ugly scooped up by Head of Zeus’ Anima http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/michelle-elmans-debut-ugly-scooped-head-zeus-anima/ http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/michelle-elmans-debut-ugly-scooped-head-zeus-anima/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://madeleinemilburn.co.uk/staging17/michelle-elmans-debut-ugly-scooped-head-zeus-anima/   Michelle Elman‘s debut memoir, Am I Ugly? has been scooped up by Head of Zeus’s new lifestyle imprint Anima. UK & Commonwealth rights in… Read More

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Michelle Elman‘s debut memoir, Am I Ugly? has been scooped up by Head of Zeus’s new lifestyle imprint Anima. UK & Commonwealth rights in one book were acquired by Ellen Parnavelas from Anna Hogarty, and the book will be published in July 2018.

 

Elman is a body-positive activist and 5-board accredited body-confidence coach. She has amassed over 128k followers on Instagram across two accounts (@scarrednotscared and @bodypositivememes) and has gone viral five times for her body-positivity posts and her campaign #ScarredNotScared. Most recently, she has completed a TedX talk on the topic titled Have You Hated Yourself Enough Today? 

 

Every month 10,000 people Google the question ‘am I ugly?’; Elman’s memoir is an exploration of how to deal with society’s idealised physical images when you’re living with body issues, following her journey through fifteen surgeries and body-confidence issues to embrace both her scars and her body. She said “I am thrilled to finally be able to share my story in full. Sharing my experiences via my Instagram has been wonderful but it has always left me with a frustration that it doesn’t tell the full story and in effect, implies that body confidence is simple and fast. Am I Ugly? has given me the space to elaborate on it and show the more complex and realistic side of body positivity from a first-hand account”

 

Anna Hogarty added “From the moment I started reading Michelle’s story, I couldn’t put it down. This is an incredible memoir of a young girl going through multiple surgeries and coming to love the body that has kept her alive. It is timely and empowering, and I can’t wait to see it in sparkling book form.”

 

Elman is also a guest contributor to  Hannah Witton’s Doing It and BodiPosiPanda’s Body Positive Power; has appeared on Sky News, BBC Radio London, Channel 5 News, LBC; and has featured in more than three hundred press articles worldwide. Her first ever viral post was a photo of her first time wearing a bikini aged 21. It was shared by celebrities such as Zooey Deschanel and George Takei, and featured in over sixty publications including the Daily Mail, Independent, MTV, Cosmopolitan, People and Buzzfeed. It joined a passionate conversation all over the word: what is beauty? Who got to decide? Why don’t we talk about scars?

 

Congratulations on such an inspiring, incredible memoir, Michelle! We can’t wait for all your fans, current and new, to read Am I Ugly? next summer.

 

 

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