I’m really thrilled to be able to announce that my next two novels will be published by Avon UK, part of HarperCollins!
These things take a while for all the T’s to be crossed and I’s to be dotted, so I’ve been sitting on the news since mid-August, when I went down to The News Building, standing right next to London’s Shard and just as impressively glassy (though not quite as tall).
I met Eleanor Dryden and some of the energetic and enthusiastic Avon UK team. They’d decorated the room with hats, as the heroine of my novel, Ava, is a milliner, and made chocolate cake and bought biscuits. (They had me with that cake.)
My lovely agent, Juliet Pickering of Blake Friedmann, came to the meeting, of course, and asked all the questions I didn’t think of, but as Eleanor unrolled Avon’s plans for my books, and for me as an author, I found myself realising that I’d found my new home.
Avon wasn’t the only publisher in the frame but Eleanor and her team were the ones who said everything I wanted to hear so, in the end, after a whirlwind couple of weeks of trying to compare offers that seemed impossible to compare, the decision made itself.
Here’s a little about the books in the deal (titles to be decided):
Book 1
Set in London at Christmas time, the story’s about things being difficult for Ava’s millinery business, revenge porn, Sam having all the trappings of success but little defence against his mother’s illness, and whether it’s obligatory to like Christmas. Due out around September 2016.
Book 2
In contrast, a summer book, set in France, where Leah, who has remained determinedly single and child-free, finds herself looking after her sister’s family while her sister’s life detonates. I’m about halfway through the first draft and the finished article is due out in Summer 2017. (I would be further along with this book if my research hadn’t led me down a blind alley. Every book seems to go through this phase, when I have to do relationship counselling between my plot and my research.)
On the way home from the meeting, I stopped for a private celebration. Yes, I drank them both!
I’m not even ashamed. 🙂
Congratulations!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Woo hoo!
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🙂 Indeed! Feeling very woohoo-y!
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Well done! I am really, really pleased for you xx
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Thank you! Mwah! x
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Excellent news, ‘Cheers!’
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Thank you very much! I appreciate it. 🙂
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So thrilled for you – and for all your readers who, like me, are eagerly awaiting the next book. XX
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Thank you! Yes, no book at all for 2015, but worth the wait to get this deal. x
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Well done Sue, thrilled for you.
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Reblogged this on New Romantics Press and commented:
So pleased for Sue Moorcrift and her two book deal. Who next we wonder ?
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Thank you, Lizzie, for the comment and the reblog. 🙂 x
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So pleased for you, Sue! Many Congratulations & very best wishes 🙂 Xx
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Thanks very much indeed, Jan. Mwah! x
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Reblogged this on Fay Keenan and commented:
This is absolutely brilliant news! Well done, Sue – I can’t wait to read the new books. 🙂
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Thank you very much, Fay. I’m really touched by how warm everybody is being! I hope you enjoy them when they come. 🙂 x
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Well done, Sue! Great news. Glad we all have these new books to look forward to 🙂
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Thank you, Penny! 🙂
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Such brilliant news, Sue! It must have been so hard to keep that under your hat. That pun came out of nowhere but it’s pretty appropriate. I love books about dressmakers and milliners, being so into that, myself. Enjoy the celebrating!!! I’m so thrilled for you. 🙂
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Thank you very much, Beverley, that’s very lovely of you. I so wish I’d thought of the ‘keep it under your hat’ pun. 😀 xx
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Thrilled for you!! xx
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Thank you, Liz, that’s very lovely of you. 🙂 xx
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So pleased for you! Can’t wait to read them!
Mandy xx
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Oh thank you, Mandy! I hope that you enjoy them. 🙂 x
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Congratulations, Sue!! 🙂
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Thanks, Katherine. 🙂
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Fantastic news, Sue!! That sounds like one amazing whirlwind and I am so pleased you enjoyed your day. Sounds like you have an amazing team around you. Many congratulations.
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Thank you very much! 🙂
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Congratulations, Sue! Can’t wait to read them both 🙂
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Thanks, lovely Teresa! I hope you enjoy them. xx
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I am sure I will. I always enjoy your books 🙂 And your heroes 😀
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So happy for you, Sue! Well deserved. Look forward to reading them.
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Thank you, Jenny! 🙂 xx
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Aww that is wonderful news x
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That’s really kind of you, Susan, thank you! 🙂 x
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Congratulations, Sue – so thrilled for you. They are lucky to have you xx
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Thank you, Liv! 🙂 xx
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WhoooppWhooop Its been a long time coming and very well deserved. Looks like the drinks will be on you. I am envious beyond green but couldn’t happen to a nicer lady. Wishing you more happy times xx
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Thank you, Sue! 🙂 xx
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Congratulations again, am beyond thrilled for you! So proud of my fab Aunt 🙂
Nikki x
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🙂 xx
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Yay! Congratulations! That is brilliant news!
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Thanks Rhoda! 🙂 x
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Congratulations Sue, so thrilled for you x
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