We’d like to kick this week’s news round-up with a delightful new signing. Welcome to DHH Literary Agency, Pen Avey!
Pen has joined Hannah Sheppard’s list and will be working with her on her debut novel.
You can find Pen on Twitter @PenAveyAuthor.
Pen has joined Hannah Sheppard’s list and will be working with her on her debut novel.
You can find Pen on Twitter @PenAveyAuthor.
There were four DHH clients with books out last week:
- Bloodchild, the long-awaited final instalment of the Godblind trilogy by Anna Stephens
- Her Sister’s Secret by Eve Seymour, a tantalisingly twisty psychological thriller
- One Perfect Family by Anna Jacobs, an uplifting saga novel which is the fourth in the Ellindale series
- Death on the Rive Nord by Adrian Magson (eBook), which is the second in the Inspector Lucas Rocco series, the rights for which have been acquired by the Dome Press, and re-released complete with a re-edited text and newly designed cover
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| It was announced last week that client Paul Burston will be appearing at this year’s Salisbury Lit Fest on the 19th October, 4-5pm Paul will be chatting about his book The Closer I Get with Erin Kelly (Stone Mothers, He Said She Said) and you can buy your tickets by clicking this link. |  |
With just under two months to go until the publication of Anita Frank’s debut The Lost Ones, we were thrilled to see this fantastic pre-pub quote from Kate Riordan, author of The Girl In the Photograph, The Stranger and The Shadow Hour.
“This is a proper gothic ghost story I really enjoyed… It’s full of atmosphere and properly creepy at times.”
It has also been revealed that with a release of 31st October, The Lost Ones will be Goldsboro Books’ Book of the Month for November. You can pre-order your signed first edition right here.
“This is a proper gothic ghost story I really enjoyed… It’s full of atmosphere and properly creepy at times.”
It has also been revealed that with a release of 31st October, The Lost Ones will be Goldsboro Books’ Book of the Month for November. You can pre-order your signed first edition right here.
Also wracking up the awesome pre-pub quotes is David Wragg’s forthcoming fantasy debut The Black Hawks (Articles of Faith: Book 1):
“Wragg captures the classic fantasy spirit of adventure and exploration, wraps it with stabbed backs and cannibals and gifts it to you on a bed of action.”
Ed McDonald, author of Blackwing
“Everyone loves a good mercenary tale, but The Black Hawks offers more besides: a protagonist who’s refreshingly rubbish at fighting, a supporting cast who’d be fascinating if they were just standing around in a supermarket, and an author who knows when to dodge clichés, and when to jump in and splash like a kid in a puddle.”
Nate Crowley, author of 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed)
“Check out The Black Hawks - it’s full of fun characters, mercenary antics, twists, turns, and contains my favourite fantasy lemon.”
Peter Newman, Gemmell Award-winning author of The Vagrant and The Deathless
“A remarkably assured debut… I can’t wait to see what happens next.”
Anna Stephens, author of Godblind
“A an extraordinary debut that is as humorous as it is dark… Wragg has a winner on his hands here. Highly recommended.”
James Tivendale, Grimdark Magazine
“Highly recommend this book, it’s great fun and really fast.”
Robin Carter, Parmenion Books
This already-highly acclaimed book will be out on 3rd October (pre-order here).
“Wragg captures the classic fantasy spirit of adventure and exploration, wraps it with stabbed backs and cannibals and gifts it to you on a bed of action.”
Ed McDonald, author of Blackwing
“Everyone loves a good mercenary tale, but The Black Hawks offers more besides: a protagonist who’s refreshingly rubbish at fighting, a supporting cast who’d be fascinating if they were just standing around in a supermarket, and an author who knows when to dodge clichés, and when to jump in and splash like a kid in a puddle.”
Nate Crowley, author of 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed)
“Check out The Black Hawks - it’s full of fun characters, mercenary antics, twists, turns, and contains my favourite fantasy lemon.”
Peter Newman, Gemmell Award-winning author of The Vagrant and The Deathless
“A remarkably assured debut… I can’t wait to see what happens next.”
Anna Stephens, author of Godblind
“A an extraordinary debut that is as humorous as it is dark… Wragg has a winner on his hands here. Highly recommended.”
James Tivendale, Grimdark Magazine
“Highly recommend this book, it’s great fun and really fast.”
Robin Carter, Parmenion Books
This already-highly acclaimed book will be out on 3rd October (pre-order here).
We are delighted to finally be able to shout about the news that Eve Smith’s debut The Waiting Rooms has struck a deal with Orenda Books!
The Waiting Rooms takes place in the very near future where an antibiotic crisis has led to widespread death and a population in peril.
The debut was bought as part of a two-book deal, negotiated by Harry Illingworth.
To read more about the book and its acquisition, click here.
The Waiting Rooms takes place in the very near future where an antibiotic crisis has led to widespread death and a population in peril.
The debut was bought as part of a two-book deal, negotiated by Harry Illingworth.
To read more about the book and its acquisition, click here.
We’ve got a couple of exciting cover reveals for you this week:
Christmas is approaching but the mood on Peppercorn Street is anything but jolly. Claire is convinced her stalker ex will catch up with her and her young daughter, and Luke is finding that living with his estranged teenage daughter brings its own problems.
When a road accident bring them together, Luke impulsively offers them shelter in his home. Will this Christmas give them the best present of all: a new family? Or will Claire’s ex again cause trouble?
Last night my sister was murdered. The police think I killed her.
I was there. I watched the knife go in. I saw the man who did it.
And heard him laugh because he knows he’ll never get caught.
He knows I have prosopagnosia - I can’t recognise faces.
And if I don’t find the man who killed my sister, I’ll be found guilty of murder.
- Christmas In Peppercorn Street (Peppercorn Series: Book 5) by Anna Jacobs (October 2019)
Christmas is approaching but the mood on Peppercorn Street is anything but jolly. Claire is convinced her stalker ex will catch up with her and her young daughter, and Luke is finding that living with his estranged teenage daughter brings its own problems.
When a road accident bring them together, Luke impulsively offers them shelter in his home. Will this Christmas give them the best present of all: a new family? Or will Claire’s ex again cause trouble?
- Remember Me by Amy McLellan (November 2019)
Last night my sister was murdered. The police think I killed her.
I was there. I watched the knife go in. I saw the man who did it.
And heard him laugh because he knows he’ll never get caught.
He knows I have prosopagnosia - I can’t recognise faces.
And if I don’t find the man who killed my sister, I’ll be found guilty of murder.
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We’ve got some excellent eBook deals for you thanks to the good folk over at Kindle and Kobo respectively.
Phillipa Ashley’s Confetti at the Cornish Café and her alter-ego Ashley Croft’s The Love Solution are only 99p in the USA on Kindle for the entire month of September.
Also included in the September Kindle Monthly Deal are a plethora of Anna Jacobs titles:
The Honeyfield Bequest (£1.19)
Bay Tree Cottage (99p)
Elm Tree Road (£1.19)
Moving On (99p)
Cinnamon Gardens (£1.19)
Finally, in the September Kindle Monthly Deal are three of Ragnar Jónasson’s bestselling Dark Iceland series books:
Night Blind (99p)
White Out (99p)
Rupture (99p)
Over at Kobo, you can snap up Adrian Magson’s sixth Inspector Lucas Rocco book, Rocco and the Price of Lies for only 99p in their ’99 for 99p’ sale, running from 5th - 18th September.
You can buy your copy of all the books mentioned by clicking on the titles above.
As the autumnal nights draw in, and the temptation to snuggle up on the sofa under a blanket becomes increasingly impossible to resist, these are the perfect additions to your eReader.
Phillipa Ashley’s Confetti at the Cornish Café and her alter-ego Ashley Croft’s The Love Solution are only 99p in the USA on Kindle for the entire month of September.
Also included in the September Kindle Monthly Deal are a plethora of Anna Jacobs titles:
The Honeyfield Bequest (£1.19)
Bay Tree Cottage (99p)
Elm Tree Road (£1.19)
Moving On (99p)
Cinnamon Gardens (£1.19)
Finally, in the September Kindle Monthly Deal are three of Ragnar Jónasson’s bestselling Dark Iceland series books:
Night Blind (99p)
White Out (99p)
Rupture (99p)
Over at Kobo, you can snap up Adrian Magson’s sixth Inspector Lucas Rocco book, Rocco and the Price of Lies for only 99p in their ’99 for 99p’ sale, running from 5th - 18th September.
You can buy your copy of all the books mentioned by clicking on the titles above.
As the autumnal nights draw in, and the temptation to snuggle up on the sofa under a blanket becomes increasingly impossible to resist, these are the perfect additions to your eReader.
Quick shout-out to client JD Fennell, whose book Sleeper: The Red Storm is shortlisted for the Wilbur Niso Smith Award for Best Published Novel 2019 - the winner is announced this week - good luck, JD, we’ll be there front and centre cheering you on!
Finally, we’d like to remind you all that our submissions for Pitch DHH: Liverpool are still open and we can’t wait to read your work!
If you’re a budding writer, have a story you’re working on, and would like feedback on, then why don’t you apply?? Click here for more info and instructions.
Good luck!
If you’re a budding writer, have a story you’re working on, and would like feedback on, then why don’t you apply?? Click here for more info and instructions.
Good luck!
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