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publishing company

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. Designed to attract previously unpublished authors, it offers aspiring

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s 20% of royalties from the sale of their book but no

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on signing. Books Macmillan New Writing has published have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the

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, the Edgar Award for best paperback original, the

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's Romantic Novel of the Year, and the

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A Partial List of Authors

* MFW Curran * Maggie Dana *

Aliya Whiteley Aliya Whiteley (born 1974) is a British novelist, short story writer and poet. Biography Aliya Whiteley was born in Barnstaple, North Devon, in 1974 and grew up in the seaside town of Ilfracombe which formed the inspiration for many of her stor ...

* Jonathan Drapes * Michael Stephen Fuchs * Frances Garrood * Eliza Graham *

Ryan David Jahn Ryan David Jahn (born 1979) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Biography Born in Arizona, Jahn spent much of his youth moving between his father's apartment in Austin, Texas, and his mother's various rentals in and around Los Angeles, Cal ...

Lucy McCarraher
* James McCreet * Brian McGilloway *

Roger Morris (English writer) Roger N Morris (born 1960 in Manchester) is an English historical fiction author and advertising copywriter. He is known for the historical fiction novels based upon the Dostoevsky character Porfiry Petrovich, and for the Inspector Silas Quinn ...

* Suroopa Mukherjee * L C Tyler * Doug Worgul

References

"A Gamble That's Paying Off". ''Publishing News'', April 30, 2008

External links

Macmillan New Writing official site
Macmillan New Writing Publishing companies based in London Holtzbrinck Publishing Group {{England-company-stub