Sunday, June 04, 2006
Macmillan New Writing in India

When we launched Macmillan New Writing a couple of months ago one of the authors, Suroopa Mukherjee, came to London with her husband for the launch. You can see and listen to her talking about her book here.

The book (along with the others in the series) is selling well on the back of excellent reviews and by present-day standards reasonable stock in bookshops.

The series was greeted with varying degrees of enthusiasm in the British media but I think this article in India's leading newspaper Daily News and Analysis is the best balanced.

Incidentally, if you go to the MNW website you'll see that a number of the titles are showing as out of stock. We have had to reprint just about every one - but new stock will be available soon and there are copies in bookshops - both independents and chains.

 

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6/4/2006 1:44:11 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
It shows it can be done Richard.. and shows that everyone is wrong when they say new fiction/first novels don`t sell.. they sell if they`re any good, like anything. I have had to reprint Helen Slavin`s first novel The Extra Large Medium in the week of publication and it is selling at a steady 20-28 a day..Waterstone`s, who are the principle chain stockists, are re-ordering from quite a few stores. I remember that my first novel, published in 1960, sold just under 2,000 copies.. about the same as Helen`s will. So things can`t have chnaged that much. The trouble is that people see astronomical sales of a very few books like Da Vinci and Harry Potter and count anything less a failure. Ha.
SUSAN HILL