New indie signs five
New publishing house Rickshaw Publishing has signed up a further five authors, having announced its launch list of three titles earlier in the year
The west-London based publisher plans to release eight to 10 titles
next year, across fiction, non-fiction and teen titles, and build on
that in future years. Rickshaw Publishing m.d. and founder Paul
Michaelides said: "We've received over 600 submissions and we are
working on eight projects . . . The emphasis is very much on quality."
Rickshaw's launch titles, all released this September, are Covering McKellen: An Understudy's Tale
by David Weston (1st September), an account of Weston's time
understudying Ian McKellen as King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare
Company; debut novel Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes by Sue Watson (8th September); and teen title Ellie Foster's English Coursework by Tina Orr Munro (1st September).
The publisher has signed world rights, directly from the authors, in five new projects: YA novel Moderate Violence by Veronica Bennett; a scientific thriller provisionally titled NH3 by Stanley Salmons; Steevan Glover's novel, with the working title of The Frog and the Scorpion, initially published by platform You Write On; crime novel Lapland by Adam Death; and a compendium of stories on body image published with charity Body Gossip.
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