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Publishing | Mary Wesley | At this time Transworld
made MWthe first serious writer to be sold as though she were Catherine Cookson
[whom they also published] in a full-blooded, commercial way. In May 1989 they had reprinted four... |
Publishing | J. K. Rowling | Rowling submitted her manuscript to one agent who rejected it, then to the Christopher Little Literary Agency
, where it was noticed by Bryony Evans
, who had the job of opening the post. The... |
Publishing | Catherine Cookson | During her later career, publishers' celebrations succeeded each other: for 27.5 million paperback sales, then for the first million sales of The Mallen Streak. Soon after her eightieth birthday the rights in ten prospective... |
Publishing | Catherine Cookson | By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC
had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This... |
Publishing | Mary Wesley | |
Reception | Catherine Cookson | Cookson
's publishers, Transworld
, established the Catherine Cookson Prize, to be awarded annually for the best unpublished novel in the tradition of her books. Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable. 314 |
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