Kate Bradley at Harper Fiction has bought world rights for two books from our very own Novelicious teammate Cressida McLaughlin!
The first will be published as a series in four separate eBook instalments and will tell the heart-warming and witty story of a young woman, Cat, who sets up a dog-walking business in and around the locale of Primrose Terrace. The series will follow the lives and loves of the residents and their adorable doggy charges.
The first eBook, Wellies and Westies, will launch in spring 2015 and will be followed with Sunshine and Spaniels, Raincoats and Retrievers and Tinsel and Terriers over the coming year. A complete physical edition, Primrose Terrace, will feature all four instalments plus extra bonus material and will be published in November 2015.
Bradley says: “Series publishing has really taken off recently and readers in the commercial women’s fiction market have shown that they love consuming their fiction in this way. Dogs are always a perennial fiction favourite, and this has been a real labour of love for Cressida; her natural warmth and her boundless love of dogs totally spill out of every page. I’m utterly thrilled to be publishing in this exciting area with such a knock-out concept and with such a great new voice in the genre.”
Primrose Terrace will be Cressida’s debut novel. She says: :I’m over the moon to be working with Kate Bradley and HarperCollins on such an exciting new project. I’ve enjoyed reading some of the recent, bite-sized fiction, and I can’t wait to share my stories with readers in this way. It’s definitely a dream come true!”
Huge congratulations to Cressida from all of us here at Novelicious!