DHH Literary Agency New Voices Award Nominees

We're pleased to announce the shortlist for the DHH Literary Agency New Voices Award 2019. It was an extremely competitive field, so if you weren't shortlisted, please don't lose heart. 

 CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to our shortlisted authors Suzy Aspley, Eric Bishop, Patti Buff, Steven Coombs, Gavin Dimmock, Victoria Goldman, Ashley Harrison, Fraser Massey, DC Smith and Nathan Velayudhan. 

The winner will be announced on Thursday 26th September at the Capital Crime opening nights drinks party. 

Good luck to all the shortlisted authors.

NEARLY TIME FOR CAPITAL CRIME

If you're coming to Capital Crime, your passes will be available for collection from the registration desk at the Grand Connaught Rooms. Please check our frequently asked questions for more details about the festival: http://www.capitalcrime.org/faqs/ 

If you're planning to come to Capital Crime, you're running out of time to book your tickets

Click here to book your passes or visit www.capitalcrime.org 

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Pass holders are currently voting for the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards. If you're a Capital Crime pass holder, visit www.capitalcrime.org, log into your account and cast your votes today.

Capital Crime

Fewer than 40 days until the inaugural Capital Crime, and we’re very excited.

You might have seen that we’ve reduced our ticket prices to £150 for a weekend pass and £80 for a day pass. We believe this is key to making the festival a truly accessible, mass participation event. Unsurprisingly, at these prices tickets are selling fast and once this tranche is gone, we will be sold out. 

Unfortunately, sold out really does mean sold out. 

The capacity rules of the Grand Connaught Rooms mean people can’t come and hang out at the bars without a pass, so if you know anyone who’s planning to do a ‘Harrogate’ please note and advise them they will be refused entry by venue security.

You might also have noticed that we’ve launched the DHH Literary Agency New Voices Award, aimed at helping the next generation of writing talent. 

You can find details of the competition here:

http://www.capitalcrime.org/new-voices-awards-entry/ 

We’ve designed and built a system that enables Capital Crime pass holders to vote on the entries, building a sense of community and enabling readers to have a say in the discovery of the next generation of talent.

As always, if you have any questions or thoughts you’d like to share, please feel free to contact David, Lizzie or Adam.

We look forward to seeing you for the opening night cocktails on Thursday 26th September. Not long now!

DHH Literary Agency New Voices Award

Could you be the next Martina Cole, Lynda La Plante or Ian Rankin?

Capital Crime and the DHH Literary Agency have launched an innovative new competition for aspiring crime and thriller authors.

To enter, all you need to do is visit http://www.capitalcrime.org/new-voices-awards-entry/ and upload the first three chapters of your unpublished novel. Everyone who buys a ticket to attend Capital Crime will be able to read your entry and vote for their favourite. The authors of the ten highest placed entries will be revealed on Thursday 19th September and the winner, judged by the Capital Crime team from the top ten entries, will be announced at Capital Crime’s opening night cocktail party on Thursday 26th September to the readers, agents and publishers in attendance.  

The competition costs £10 to enter and entries close at midnight on Wednesday 18th September 2019. The names of the ten most popular entrants will be announced the next day. The overall winner will be announced on the 26th September and will receive a trophy and a prize of £250. 

Enter here!

Good luck! 

Pre-Frankfurt, Frankfurt and Other Book News

With the Frankfurt Bookfair starting today there has already been lots of bookish news emerging with pre-emptive book deals already taking place.

According to the Bookseller, Simon and Schuster won the auction for the UK and Commonwealth rights to a psychological drama by former Guardian journalist Sarah Vaughan.  Anatomy of a Scandal will be published in January 2018.

Michael Joseph won the auction rights to a new debut thriller by C J Tudor called The Chalk Man.  The book is due to be published in hardback on 11^th January 2018 and according to publishing director Maxine Hitchcock in the Bookseller it has all the ingredients to become one of the great contemporary thrillers.

HarperCollins UK and Harper Collins US (William Morrow) have snapped up the rights to the debut psychological novel The Woman in the Window.  Written by William Morrow’s own vice president and executive editor Daniel Mallory it was submitted under the pseudonym A J Finn.  The film rights have already been sold to Fox 2000.

According to the Bookseller, Corvus are to publish Troll a psychological thriller by David Thorne as part of a three book deal.

If you have not heard the news already then according to the Guardian Irvine Welsh’s 2009 novel Crime is being adapted for the television. Crime is about a detective inspector who has fled to Miami following a mental breakdown. In Florida, a coke-fuelled binge brings him into contact with 10-year-old Tianna, a victim of a sex crime, which brings back memories of a harrowing child-sex murder case back in Edinburgh.

Un-agented author T A Cotterell’s debut novel has been acquired by Transworld.  What Alice Knew, will according to the Bookseller be published on 20th April 2017.

The Seven Lives of Evelyn Hardcastle a debut novel by Stuart Turton has been sold to Bloomsbury. According to Harry Illingworth of DHH Literary Agency in the Bookseller, The Seven Lives of Evelyn Hardcastle has been described as Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day, by way of Agatha Christie.

 

Julia Wisdom has according to Booktrade info acquired two more thrillers from best-selling Swedish writer Lars Kepler. Both thrillers will feature Joona Linna, the maverick detective first introduced in the Sunday Times Bestseller The Hypnotist.

 

According to World Screen Laurence Bowen’s newly formed indie company has acquired the rights to adapt the novels of bestselling author Alastair Maclean. Maclean’s best known novels include The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare.  The first novel to be turned into a four or six part event mini-series will be San Andreas.

Breaking News - TV Deal for Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series

Orenda Books is delighted to announce that On the Corner, the UK production company responsible for the Academy Award-winning Amy, has acquired the TV rights for Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series. The deal was negotiated by Luke Speed at Curtis Brown.

The series, currently comprised of five books, including the bestselling Snowblind and Nightblind, with Blackout to follow this July, features Icelandic police officer Ari Thor, who is based in the northernmost town in Iceland, Siglufjörður. Rights to the series have been sold in ten countries to date, and Snowblind has been a number one bestseller in both the UK and Australia.

On the Corner is a multi-award-winning independent production company, producing original, high-quality drama and documentaries. They were responsible for Senna, which won two BAFTAs, and Amy, the most successful British documentary of all time.

Ragnar says, ‘I am thrilled that we have finalised this deal with On the Corner. They have set out very ambitious plans to bring my books to the screen and I am confident that my characters and stories are in very capable hands.’

David Headley, of DHH Literary Agency, Ragnar’s literary agent says, ‘Ragnar is a talented, brilliant

author and the Dark Iceland series will make great TV. We couldn’t be happier for him.’

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, says, ‘It is beyond exciting to know that such a prestigious production company will be bringing this fabulous series to the small screen. Ragnar’s books are atmospheric, chilling and evocative, and he cleverly weaves together the very best aspects of Nordic Noir with all the elements of a Golden Age mystery. TV is a natural home for them, and I know that On the Corner will do them proud.  Beautifully translated by Quentin Bates, Ragnar’s books have attracted a new legion of fans to the genre, and I’m sure the TV series will do the same.’