LC/5/1/TRA/106 - Notes, Marianne Velmans to Lee Child - for the Transworld Sales Conference, Bournemouth, 14-15 September, 2000

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LC/5/1/TRA/106

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Item

Title

Notes, Marianne Velmans to Lee Child - for the Transworld Sales Conference, Bournemouth, 14-15 September, 2000

Date/s

September 2000

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2 leaves Notes (typescript)

Creator

Velmans, Marianne

Creator

Child, Lee

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recipient

Scope and content

Notes to accompany [Powerpoint] slide presentation.

LC's agent had sold rights to his books in 26 countries.
A Hollywood film option had been taken on the character of Jack Reacher.
LC won several awards including the American Anthony Award for best novel for Killing Floor.
Die Trying won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award.
The Visitor was published in April 2000 and they sold twice as many as the previous novel, 26,000 copies on the home market plus 25,000 overseas. It listed for 4 consecutive weeks on the Sunday Times list.

The key to breaking LC into 'the really big league' is Jack Reacher. Marianne describes how Transworld is going about this, and provides detail of their marketing and publicity activities, including the LC website.

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