LC/5/1/TRA - Transworld Publishers Ltd

LC/5/1/TRA

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Transworld Publishers Ltd

1996-2018

238 items Mixed

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Transworld or Doubleday is LC's publisher in the UK. Marianne Velmans (Publishing Director).

Contains compliments slips, agreement memoranda, letters, publishing industry news, greetings cards, despatch notices.

General correspondence with the publishers, including a photo of LC with Marianne Velmans; personal correspondence from agency staff; feedback and praise for LC’s novels (see LC/5/2 for editorial); press acclaim; correspondence on cover designs (see also LC/6 Marketing); covering letters for catalogue copy for The Hook - which became Tripwire (for the copy text see LC/6 Marketing).

The file also includes information on:
Transworld’s sales conference in Cyprus, 11-15 November 1996, attended by LC.
The selection of Killing Floor as The Booksellers’ Association’s Book of the Month for June 1997, this was voted for by over 150 independent booksellers.
A request for LC to write an article about his book for the magazine A Shot in the Dark (LC/5/1/TRA/21).
Permission for Killing Floor to be published in braille/recorded to tape for talking books for the blind.
Reader’s Digest condensation rights sale “who normally turn down everything with any hint of sex/violence” (LC/5/1/TRA/34).
Publicity tour for Tripwire (UK), April 1999.
Advance and royalty on a book club edition of Tripwire.
Without Fail launch party.
Remaindered books.
A dinner to celebrate publication of The Hard Way. Menu at (LC/5/1/TRA/158).
Schedule for writing two books a year (LC/5/1/TRA/186).

Partially catalogued at item level.