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Bookouture
Bookouture is a British digital publishing company. It was founded in 2012 by Oliver Rhodes, a former marketing controller for Harlequin/Mills & Boon. Bookouture is notable for growing its e-book sales dramatically, and for having several of its publications sell substantial numbers. Bookouture made its first big successes in 2015, when it sold 2.5 million books, including ''Silent Scream'' by Angela Marsons, a crime novel featuring detective Kim Stone, and the thriller '' Secrets of The Last Nazi'' by Iain King. These were followed in 2016 by Robert Bryndza's ''The Girl in the Ice'', its first book to sell a million copies. In 2017, it was acquired by Hachette, and in 2019 it sold 9 million books more than half of them in the United States. In 2020, Bookouture launched the imprint ''Thread Books'', with an initial group of five non-fiction books. Bestselling authors *Angela Marsons * Lisa Regan * K.L. Slater * Kerry Fisher * Robert Bryndza * Kathryn Croft *Patricia Gibney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Gibney
Patricia Gibney is an Irish author of crime fiction who sold 100,000 copies of her first crime thriller as an e-book, and had total sales exceeding 500,000 copies in 2018. By 2019, total book sales had passed one million. Early life Gibney is from Mullingar, County Westmeath and has lived there all her life. She spent 30 years working with Westmeath County Council. Writing career When her husband died in 2009, aged 49, three months after a diagnosis of cancer, Gibney turned to art and writing, self-publishing a children's book entitled ''Spring Sprong Sally''. Gibney then started writing crime fiction and created her first novel in that genre. She worked with the Irish Writers Centre to improve her writing. Eventually she began a second novel and through that acquired an agent and a publishing contract with Bookouture, which has since been bought by Hachette Publishing. Lottie Parker detective novels Gibney's eight novels to date feature a main character, Garda Detective Lott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Croft
Kathryn Croft is a British author of psychological thriller fiction. She sold one million novels within a year of publishing her third crime thriller. Writing career Croft is originally from Watford but grew up in Guildford. She was a secondary school teacher after gaining an MA in Media Arts with English Literature. She gave up teaching to focus on writing full-time. Her third novel – ''The Girl With No Past'' reached number 1 and stayed for over four weeks, in the Amazon Kindle chart. Bibliography * ''Behind Closed Doors'' - (Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, December 2013, ) * ''The Stranger Within'' - (Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, October 2014, ) * ''The Girl With No Past'' - (Published by Bookouture Bookouture is a British digital publishing company. It was founded in 2012 by Oliver Rhodes, a former marketing controller for Harlequin/Mills & Boon. Bookouture is notable for growing its e-book sales dramatically, and for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Marsons
Angela Marsons is a British author of crime fiction, from the Black Country in the West Midlands. She has sold more than three-and-a-half million copies of her novels, which have been translated into 28 languages. Writing career Angela Marsons is from Brierley Hill in the West Midlands and is a former security guard at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre. Having been rejected by numerous publishers over 25 years, she released three books in her crime series in 2015 under digital publisher Bookouture Bookouture is a British digital publishing company. It was founded in 2012 by Oliver Rhodes, a former marketing controller for Harlequin/Mills & Boon. Bookouture is notable for growing its e-book sales dramatically, and for having several of its .... Her books all have a Black Country setting, but the author says "I never write about a set group of people or anyone particular I know, all my characters are make believe." The principal character in the crime series is Detective Kim Ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets Of The Last Nazi
''Secrets of The Last Nazi'' is the debut novel by non-fiction writer Iain King. It became the United Kingdom’s best-selling spy story of 2015, and was classified in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ... as a ‘Number One New Release’ in espionage. The story follows an international team of five, led by eccentric British military historian Myles Munro, which investigates the life and secrets of SS Captain Werner Stolz, while facing several dangers. The book received mixed reviews. A prequel, ''Last Prophecy of Rome'' which also featured the character Myles Munro, was published in 2016. References 2015 British novels British thriller novels Novels about Nazis 2015 debut novels {{2010s-thriller-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain King
Iain Benjamin King is a British writer. King was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours, for services to governance in Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo. He is a Scholar at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point, Modern War Institute and a former Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and at Cambridge University. After seven years work on the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s, Iain King held a senior political role in Kosovo’s UN Administration,Oisín TanseyReview of ''Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo'' by Iain King, Whit Masonin ''International Journal'', Vol. 62, No. 3, "What Kind of Security? Afghanistan and Beyond" (Summer, 2007), pp. 717-720. and co-authored a book on the history of Kosovo and the difficulties of post-war state-building in the Balkans, called '' Peace at Any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo''. His 2008 book, '' How to Make Goo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Angela Marsons is a British author of crime fiction, from the Black Country in the West Midlands. She has sold more than three-and-a-half million copies of her novels, which have been translated into 28 languages. Writing career Angela Marsons is from Brierley Hill in the West Midlands and is a former security guard at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre. Having been rejected by numerous publishers over 25 years, she released three books in her crime series in 2015 under digital publisher Bookouture Bookouture is a British digital publishing company. It was founded in 2012 by Oliver Rhodes, a former marketing controller for Harlequin/Mills & Boon. Bookouture is notable for growing its e-book sales dramatically, and for having several of its .... Her books all have a Black Country setting, but the author says "I never write about a set group of people or anyone particular I know, all my characters are make believe." The principal character in the crime series is Detective Kim Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hachette (publisher)
Hachette () is a French publisher. Founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as Brédif, the company later became L. Hachette et Compagnie, Librairie Hachette, Hachette SA and Hachette Livre in France. After acquiring an Australian publisher, Hachette Australia was created; in the UK it became Hachette UK, and its expansion into the United States became Hachette Book Group USA. History France It was founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as Brédif, a bookshop and publishing company. It became L. Hachette et Compagnie on 1 January 1846, Librairie Hachette in 1919, and Hachette SA in 1977. It was acquired by the Lagardère Group in 1981. In 1992, the publishing assets of Hachette SA were grouped into a subsidiary called Hachette Livre (), the flagship imprint of Lagardère Publishing. Hachette has its headquarters in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. In 1996, it merged with the Hatier group. In 2004, Hachette acquired dictionary publisher Éditions Larousse. International expansion In 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Press Publishing Companies
Small may refer to: Science and technology * SMALL, an ALGOL-like programming language * Small (anatomy), the lumbar region of the back * ''Small'' (journal), a nano-science publication * <small>, an HTML element that defines smaller text Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Small, in the British children's show Big & Small Other uses * Small, of little size * Small (surname) * "Small", a song from the album '' The Cosmos Rocks'' by Queen + Paul Rodgers See also * Smal (other) * List of people known as the Small The Small is an epithet applied to: *Bolko II the Small (c. 1312–1368), Duke of Świdnica, of Jawor and Lwówek, of Lusatia, over half of Brzeg and Oława, of Siewierz, and over half of Głogów and Ścinawa *Dionysius Exiguus (c. 470–c. 5 ... * Smalls (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishing Companies Established In 2012
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishing, and the like. Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing (k-12) and academic and scientific publishing. Publishing is also undertaken by governments, civi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Hale
Jenny Hale (born 1959) is an Australian illustrator and author who has published 20 children's picture books, including the ''Double Delight'' flap books with hundreds of thousands of copies in print. Her illustration styles range from naïve and cute (for toddlers) to detailed watercolour realism. Hale often hides characters and little jokes in her pictures for children to find. Biography Hale is the fifth of seven children, all of whom showed drawing talent. From the age of 8, her drawings were published in the '' Sun-Herald'' children's lift-out pages, and she won prizes in competitions as diverse as the Coca-Cola summer beach sand modelling competition, billboard painting, and a Dulux egg painting competition at Easter 1973. After completing Graphic Design at Randwick TAFE, she worked as a freelance illustrator, graphic designer and copywriter. Works Hale works in pastel, watercolour, coloured pencil, and in Photoshop, concentrating on figure illustration. Her illustra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Goldring
Suzanne may refer to: People * Suzanne (given name), a feminine given name (including a list of people with the name) * S. U. Zanne, pen name of August Vandekerkhove (1838–1923), Belgian writer and inventor * Suzanne, pen name of Renée Méndez Capote (1901–1989), Cuban writer * Suzanne (television personality) (born 1986), Japanese variety ''tarento'', actress, and singer * Suzanne Lynch (born 1951), New Zealand singer who performed as "Suzanne" Places * Suzanne, Ardennes, France, a commune * Suzanne, Somme, France, a commune Films * ''Suzanne'' (1932 film), a French film * ''Suzanne'' (1980 film), a Canadian film * ''Suzanne'' (2013 film), a French film * '' Suzanne, Suzanne'', a 1982 documentary film Music * "Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen song), a 1966 poem and 1967 song, covered by numerous artists * "Suzanne" (Creeper song), a 2016 song by English band Creeper * "Suzanne" (VOF de Kunst song), 1983 * "Suzanne" (Journey song), a song from ''Raised on Radio'' by Journey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalini Boland
Shalini (born 20 November 1979), also known as Baby Shalini, is a former Indian child artist and actress who predominantly worked in Malayalam and Tamil films. During the 80s, Shalini was the most successful child artist in the Malayalam film industry. After taking a brief hiatus from child acting, Shalini made a come back in 1997 through Malayalam and Tamil Language films as lead heroine roles. She married popular Tamil actor Ajith Kumar, on April 24, 2000 and retired from films after her marriage. Early life Shalini was born in a Protestant Malayali Christian family to Babu and Alice on 20 November 1979. Her father is from Kollam. Her father migrated to Madras with an ambition of becoming an actor and the family settled there. Later, he fulfilled his ambition through his children. Shalini attended Fatima Matriculation Higher Secondary School (K.G to 8th), Adarsh Vidyalaya, Chennai (9th to 10th) and Church Park, Chennai (11th and 12th). She completed college at Annamalai Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
