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NZ Author Tammy Robinson Signs UK Publishing Deal

Self-published New Zealand author Tammy Robinson says a “significant five-figure” deal with a United Kingdom publisher is “huge”.

Piatkus has acquired two novels by Tammy – the first book Differently Normal will be published in 2018 and the second Photos of You in 2019.
Formerly from Rotorua, Tammy now lives on a farm in the Waikato with her husband and three young children.

In an interview with the BMS Write Stuff blog, Tammy told the story of how, after going the self-publishing route, she sought out Vicki Marsden of WordLink to help find a publisher. While the five-figure sum is big, we get the impression that it is the opportunities opening up for Tammy that is the key.

The Bookseller reported that associate publisher Emma Beswetherick and Anna Boatman at Little, Brown Book Group, in their first joint acquisition for Piatkus fiction, did the deal for world rights with Vicki Marsdon at WordLink. Kate Stevens at Hachette Australia will publish Differently Normal in New Zealand, also in 2018, as part of the collaborative deal.

Tammy says the deal, which will see her books distributed throughout Australia, New Zealand and the UK from next year, is a dream come true.
However, it hasn’t been without hard work and a great deal of achievement through self-publishing via Amazon Kindle. Differently Normal, for example, achieve 60 five-star reviews on Amazon UK.

Tammy also credits much of her success in breaking into the international publishing seen to her agent Vicki Marsdon, noting: “Without her, it simply wouldn’t have happened.”

For more information, go to:

https://bmswritestuff.blogspot.co.nz/2017/07/nz-self-published-authors-huge-uk-deal.html


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