the Hilary Johnson Authors' Advisory Service

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Craig Hawes Short story Last Dance at Johnny's accepted by BBC Radio 4
Jean Fullerton Two-book deal with Orion No Cure For Love to be published December 2008
Lola Jaye 2-book deal with HarperCollins By The Time You Read This . . to be published August 2008
Gillian Philip Second children's book , Mind's Eye, accepted by Evans

Karen Maitland Six-figure 2-book deal with Michael Joseph: Company of Liars February 2008, The Owl Killers, 2009 . These two novels also sold for high six-figure sum to Bantam Dell, USA. Other foreign rights sold.
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Authors

You were the first person who gave me advice when I began my writing career all those years ago, so I value your opinions/views more than anybody else’s.

Richard Webber

We have advised these authors and in many cases been associated with the publication of their first books.

Leila Aboulela

Lin Anderson

Valerie-Anne Baglietto#

* W.H. Smith Fresh Talent choices
# Winners - Romantic Novelists' Association's New Writer's Award

Competition wins:

Les Page: BBC Southern Counties Radio Competition prize for short children's story

Jo Cannon: Runner-up Fish International Short Story Competition with Insignificant Gestures

Also recently/to be published:

Sheila Glasbey: Charity's Child (Circaidy Gregory)

"I'm sure that this achievement is due in no small part to your wonderful advice and comments, which led me, apart from anything else, to consider exactly what market I was aiming at."

Judy Jarvie: Taking The Leap (Moonlit Romance)

"Your kindness and franknesscertainly kept me on track and focused me to think of myself as a 'real writer' from the off."

Jane Gordon-Cumming: A Perfect Family Christmas (Transita)

Wendy K Harris: The Sorrow of Sisters ( Random House, Germany, The House of Books, Holland, Blue Slipper Bay (Transita)

Lisa Andrews: The Marriage Bargain (My Weekly Story Collection/Ulverscroft Large Print}

Shanta Everington: Marilyn and Me (Cinnamon Press)
"Your reader's constructive comments on the early draft of my novel made me think hard about what worked and what didn’t. A while later, I completely changed the narrative structure, with an altered point of view and tense.
Soon after, the reworked novel was shortlisted in the Cinnamon Press First Novel Competition, with a publication contract to follow. Thank you, Hilary, for all your encouragement over the last few years."

David Davenport: Successful Photography for Writers (Robert Hale)

Keith Norcott: Chalk on My Shoes (The Book Castle)

We look forward to adding your name to this list! However, the market in general and that for fiction in particular is extremely tough, with intense competition for a relatively limited number of slots. In this situation, we cannot promise publication as a result of an assessment, but we can identify the strengths and weaknesses of a typescript and suggest ways of capitalising on the first and minimising the second and thus enable you to improve your chances.