Feb072011

UK Publisher Month: Meet Lynsey Dalladay from Transworld Publishers, Plus Upcoming Titles 2011 & Fab Giveaway!

by Carolyn • Posted in Uncategorized

During the month of February I will be celebrating UK publishers and the books they publish. There will be posts from editors and publicists revealing some of their upcoming titles for 2011 as well as giving us a glimpse into their working lives. I will also be reviewing some of their titles and there will be lots of UK giveaways too. Enjoy!

Good morning BCC and thank you for asking me to write this guest post, my name is Lynsey Dalladay and I’m the Senior Press Officer at Transworld Publishers. We look after the publicity for the titles published under the imprints; Bantam Press, Bantam Books, Doubleday, Corgi, Black Swan, Eden, Expert, Channel 4 and Transworld Ireland.

What we do in publicity here at Transworld is a tricky question to answer, not because we sit around in armchairs eating jammy dodgers, but because no two days are ever the same! Publicity handles all manner of things from setting up press interviews to organising country-wide tours, and our authors always come first. A publicist’s work is never done, be it in silly costumes or at ungodly hours, we are always on hand for our authors when they need us (no calls on Sundays please!) and our main goal is raising awareness of the books we publish to the biggest audience possible.

January was really exciting, we had the new Belinda Bauer crime novel Blacklands and the prequel to R. D. Wingfield’s Frost series First Frost by James Henry, both cracking reads. We pride ourselves on our great crime fiction at Transworld and one to look out for this year is Now You See Me the new S. J. Bolton thriller out in May. It’s twistier than a slinky and features a Jack the Ripper copy cat killer! It doesn’t get more chilling than that. The Calling of the Grave by Simon Beckett, the fourth David Hunter novel is superbly plotted and I have to admit to having a soft spot for the forensic expert and in April we have the high concept thriller Before I go to Sleep by S. J. Watson.

One of the books I’m most excited about this year is The Mistress’s Revenge by Tamar Cohen which is published on the 23rd June. It is a truly phenomenal book; I read it just before Christmas and couldn’t put it down. It tells the story of the fall out of an affair and it doesn’t shy away from the scarier side of human emotions, it makes for uncomfortable reading. This also happens to have my favourite cover so far of 2011.

A book that will make you weep, (I now own shares in Kleenex) is John Boyne’s new novel The Absolutist, out in May. Boyne brings his excellent story-telling skills to the complexity of human relationships in a moving and tragic book. I missed many a tube stop due to being too engrossed in this book.

The sequel to Lee Carroll’s Black Swan Rising is out in August called The Watchtower. There were so many questions left unanswered when we last said good bye to Garet James and I can’t wait to see where the story takes us next, I’m sure our heroine will go from strength to strength.

The final chapter of Giles Kristian’s Raven series is published in April, Odin’s Wolves is a dramatic, blood soaked tale for Raven and his Viking warriors, a fitting end to the series… or is it? I have a feeling this isn’t the last we’ll see of Raven.

And my secret huge coveted title for 2011 is Terry Pratchett’s latest adult Discworld novel, currently entitled SNUFF. The manuscript will be delivered any day now and I can’t wait to read it. I’d battle dragons to get my hands on that book, which is just as well as I may have too.

These are my personal favourites but we have so many good books out this year, there’s a new Joanna Trollope, Robert Goddard, Monica Ali, Mo Hayder, and Tess Gerritsen and that only takes us up to July!

I’d love to give away a copy of all the books in red type and will leave it to BCC to find a fair way to give them away!

Thanks Lynsey!

GIVEAWAY

Lynsey and Transworld are kindly giving away a total of NINE (9) books!! To clarify which books you could win, here they are:

1. Blacklands by Belinda Bauer

2. First Frost by James Henry

3. Now You See Me by S. J. Bolton

4. The Calling of the Grave by Simon Beckett

5. Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson

6. The Mistress’s Revenge by Tamar Cohen

7. The Absolutist by John Boyne

8. Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll

9. Odin’s Wolves by Giles Kristian

All you have to do to enter is the following:

1. Leave a comment for Lynsey

2. Read Book Chick City’s giveaway policy

3. Fill in this form

4. One entry per person

That’s it!

This giveaway is for UK Residents Only and ends 28th Feb 2011!

GOOD LUCK!

Tagged with Giveaways, Guest Publisher, NEED TO CHANGE

Carolyn

Carolyn created Book Chick City in July 2009 due to her love of books. A Brit chick obsessed with zombies, kick-arse chicks and sexy heroes, she's also seriously addicted to chocolate, shopping, and speciality teas. Favourite genres are Urban Fantasy, Romance and Zombie Lit... brrraaaaiiinnnnsss! - Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest

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35 Comments

stacey February 7, 2011 at 6:13 am

Thats some list of Books you have there Never had a Book from the UK would be diffrent thay always have the better cover art in Paranormal Books witch are my Fave
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carol810 February 7, 2011 at 8:15 am

Oh wow these books are soo what I love and Tess Gerritson one of my favorites. How do you ever get to do anything other than read? I know I would have a book in my hand whenever I could. Just keep them authors happy so they keep writing….

IreneRJ February 7, 2011 at 9:04 am

Oh I envy you , you get to read all the good books first A list of really good authors and two's up on the Terry Pratchett , he's a favourite of the whole tribe of us !

Dot February 7, 2011 at 9:27 am

What great books to be representing! I am currently taking part in the Transworld's Great Crime Caper, a great way to be introduced to some new authors!

prophecygirl February 7, 2011 at 10:40 am

Thanks for this post Lynsey – what a great selection of books you're working on this year! I can't wait for John Boyne's new one, and I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it (even though you missed tube stops… eek!).

Naomi February 7, 2011 at 11:16 am

What a great post, you must have the odd Jammy Dodger? go on be honest ;o)

Vivienne February 7, 2011 at 12:21 pm

What a great selection of books. It sounds like a fantastic job where every day is different.

I tried I thio enter competition, but my computer crashed, so will try again. Please delete one if there are two entries.

MoonStar February 7, 2011 at 12:42 pm

I really want to read Black Swan Rising. Though I didn´t know it was going to be a series. Thanks for the info

Pagecrawler February 7, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Great selection of books but I have to say that the one that really grabs my interest is the new Terry Pratchett one – I cannot wait for that!

Thanks for a great giveaway!

andy341139(at)hotmail(dot)com

BooksforCompany February 7, 2011 at 2:39 pm

This is a great post! Very different from other posts l have seen on blogs.
Thanks for the post, l am so jealous of you!

SusanKMann February 7, 2011 at 2:43 pm

Sounds like a very interesting job. I like the fact that no two days are the same. It also comes across that you enjoy your job and to me that makes all the difference.

The Slowest Bookworm February 7, 2011 at 2:56 pm

It sounds like a very busy but very fun job. A new Terry Pratchett book is definitely something to look forward to and another that you mention is Black Swan Rising. I need to get my hands on a copy of that one very soon.

Jammy dodgers! Lol love those biscuits!

Holz February 7, 2011 at 3:53 pm

Such a good number of novels that i wouldn't even be aware of if not for this post, so thank you:) It sounds like your job keeps you super busy but i bet the rewards are well worth it:P
Thank you so much for this generous giveaway!

holz_twilight@msn.com

natalie23 February 7, 2011 at 6:25 pm

Thanks for the guest post, I wasn't aware of some of these books before reading the post,now they are on my wishlist.
I'm always excited whenever there is a new Terry Pratchett book out, then disappointed when I finish it, because it's one less Terry book to look forward to.(the books themselves don't disappoint)
It's just that the series always seemed like it could go on forever but now I know that they will come to an end, and every Discworld book I finish is one book closer to the last one(I hope that made sense).

Nikki-ann February 7, 2011 at 6:45 pm

A great interview. Transworld are definitely one of (if not THE) my favourite publishers. They're always releasing brilliant books

Neda B February 7, 2011 at 7:32 pm

Wow, honestly,reading all these books and discovering them before anyone else – DREAM JOB!!

Mel February 7, 2011 at 8:24 pm

I love Terry Prachett too – I can fight you for first read of the new book!

Rusted February 7, 2011 at 8:48 pm

Good luck with the Terry Pratchett work! & What a fab variety of books you work with

To BCC – Thanks for the publishing feature! It's making for fantastic reading

Sally February 7, 2011 at 9:30 pm

To Lynsey,
What an awesome job you have! This is an excellent post – I have to admit I don't pay much attention to who publishes the books I read but this post has made me more aware so thanks.

Sally.

P.S. I loooove Jammy Dodgers!

Sarah February 8, 2011 at 1:11 am

OMG I'm soooooooooo jealous that you'll be getting your hands on a copy of Snuff soon!!! I'm dying to read that one – LOVE Terry Pratchett )

Kelsey February 8, 2011 at 1:46 am

Oh wow what a awesome selection of books! It's nice to see somewhere that does a giveaway/contest for just the UK instead of the usual just US, it's really nice for a change!

Kelsey

nicnacnoo100 February 8, 2011 at 6:24 am

Some great books listed and I'd love to read any (or all!) of them! Your job sounds fab although I'm not so sure about having to dress up in silly costumes! Thanks for the glimpse into your (Trans)world!

Books Glorious Books February 8, 2011 at 7:05 pm

wow haha that's some list of books!
Thanks for the great giveaway!

Caroline February 8, 2011 at 7:50 pm

Lynsey, you have the type of job I dream of having. All the books you mentioned sound amazing.

Caroline February 8, 2011 at 7:51 pm

The Book Bee February 9, 2011 at 9:14 am

That is an amazing list of books and your job sounds amazing. Thanks for all the information in the post.

SJH (A Dream of Books) February 9, 2011 at 7:13 pm

Wow, there are some amazing upcoming books for 2011. I really, really want to read 'Black Swan Rising'. Thanks for the chance to win some of these titles!

liveotherwise February 9, 2011 at 11:57 pm

Fantastic sounding list of forthcoming titles, look forward to seeing some of them in the flesh

angelshimmery February 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm

That is a great list of books that you get to be involved with, and I am soooooo jealous that you will get your hands on the new Terry Pratchett! The job sounds great and obviously isn't boring.

Jaedia February 12, 2011 at 11:26 pm

Wow, that's quite a list of books
And hooray for Snuff! I really really should read my Discworlds, I love Pratchett to bits but I've slacked so much on reading those recently.

Sarah C February 15, 2011 at 2:18 pm

I'm super excited about Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll!

1morepageplease February 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Hi Lynsey,
Excitedd about Mistress's revenge.Thanks for sharing it.

Regards
Alpa

bookfreak72 February 21, 2011 at 7:39 pm

I've heard excellent things about one of the books Blacklands, would love a copy, thank you

Caroline February 27, 2011 at 12:42 pm

This sounds like a truly amazing job!
And the books you're giving away sound amazing – I'd love to get my hands on them. Thank you so much for the great giveaway!

cath February 27, 2011 at 9:58 pm

These books sound great, I'm looking forward to reading them!

UK Publisher Month: Meet Lynsey Dalladay from Transworld Publishers, Plus Upcoming Titles 2011 & Fab Giveaway!

Carolyn

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