Ashley Audrain
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Ashley Audrain is a Canadian writer.[1][2] During a July 2019 interview with the Toronto Star Audrain described her debut novel, The Push, as a "psychological drama told through the lens of motherhood.”
Prior to turning her hand to writing, Audrain was publicity director for the publisher Penguin Canada.[1][2] In 2015 a health crisis with her youngest child caused her to retire. She found writing was an occupation she could undertake at home.
The Bookseller reports that her UK book deal, with Michael Joseph Limited, a Penguin UK imprint, was worth approximately one million British pounds, while her US book deal was in "the high seven figures".[3] The book is scheduled to be published in 2021.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Raju Mudhar (2019-07-10). "Meet Ashley Audrain, the Toronto author who has the publishing world buzzing". Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2019/07/10/meet-ashley-audrain-the-toronto-author-who-has-the-publishing-world-buzzing.html. Retrieved 2019-07-11. "Viking U.S. also quickly bought the book. This is almost unheard of in the industry, as it’s an unpublished debut novel, it was sold outside of a book fair and the summer is generally considered a quiet time in the publishing world."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ryan Porter (2019-07-11). "Former Penguin publicist lands record-breaking deal for debut novel". Quill & Quire. https://quillandquire.com/omni/former-penguin-publicist-lands-record-breaking-deal-for-debut-novel/. Retrieved 2019-07-11. "Penguin Canada, which bought the Canadian rights as part of a two-book deal, didn’t have to look far for Audrain – the 37-year-old worked as the publisher’s in-house publicity director until 2015."
- ↑ Heloise Wood (2019-07-10). "Audrain’s debut thriller nets £1m in UK deal". The Bookseller. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/ashley-audrain-s-debut-thriller-nets-almost-3m-global-prh-deals-1037821. Retrieved 2019-07-11. "The Bookseller understands the UK deal is worth £1m ($1.2m) while the subsequent deal with Pamela Dorman Books/Viking in the US is a higher seven-figure deal. Milburn did not disclose the figures. The Bookseller sourced the figures from third parties."
- ↑ Rachel Deahl (2019-07-12). "Book Deals: Week of July 15, 2019". Publishers Weekly. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/80671-book-deals-week-of-july-15-2019.html. Retrieved 2019-07-13. "Adding to the burgeoning cache of domestic fiction that examines motherhood through a horror-suffused lens, the novel, Dorman said in a release, is 'a story about mothers and their children, and about how an unspeakable act can reverberate and change the lives around us forever.'"
