Something worth keeping an eye on for UK authors is
the news released in the Bookseller yesterday that Amazon publishing plans to
open a European publishing wing based in Luxembourg. Vicky Griffith will
relocate from Seattle in the New Year and start building a team of editors and marketing
personnel. There is a thought that Amazon may wish to acquire global English language
rights with this move. Big name authors have not flocked to Amazon Publishing,
and some US stores have boycotted Amazon published titles because of the
required exclusivity on Kindle deals.
There’s an interesting piece I spotted in the in the Guardian by Lee
Rourke here
on why sex isn’t suited to the pages of literary fiction. I think he is saying
it may well be suited to the pages of commercial fiction but I’d have to go and
read it again to be sure. Why don’t you read it and let me know? I’ll go and
dry my recently washed hair and then trot off up the hill to renew my car tax before
I become illegal. and when I come back, I shall put my nose to the grindstone (or in this case the computer keyboard) and try and complete the remaining pages of Victorian Beauty.
