Acceptances

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All publications accepted on a Gentleman's Agreement and due within the next life-time... or thereabouts...

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Gareth L Powell's short-novel Silversands. I don't usually read space-opera, but this is a damn thrilling tale of planetary politics, espionage and subtefuge.

Due in 2009, which for anyone interested in submitting anything to me is the time-scale you'll be looking at.

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The Reef by Mark Charan Newton

From the Press Release:
The novel, a fantastical story set mostly among the islands of an imagined world, has echoes of both Joseph Conrad and China Miéville, but is very much Mark’s own invention. Mark’s writing has already received this accolade from critically-acclaimed author Jeff VanderMeer: "Mark Newton is a promising new writer whose prose is dynamic and whose imagination is often startling."

“Mark was one of the first authors I took on after setting up the agency in 2004,” said John Jarrold. “I’m really delighted to have done this deal, and I have no doubt his reputation will grow very quickly, within and without the genre.”

Mark has worked in bookselling, but is now an editor at a major publishing company.

The book will be released as a B-format paperback, and hopefully launched at Orbital 2008.


Part of me is excited - my first agented acceptance, but I'm also ****-scared at ******* it up.

Only time will tell, and loads of people buy it next Easter.

[John Jarrold]

Hoorah! Stiff drinks all round!!!

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Couple more long-novellas/short-novels for your reading pleasure:

Fade-Out by Gavin Salisbury
A strange tale concerning the decay of communication, which seems to stem from one family...

The Places Inbetween by Terry Gates-Grimwood
An urban dark fantasy where a woman plagued by an abusive marriage unwittingly opens a portal to another world ...