By Joanna Scutts
Claire Armitstead, literary editor of the Guardian, is spearheading a new collaboration between the London-based newspaper and British independent publisher Legend Press that champions self-published fiction writers in the United Kingdom. This past April, authors residing in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales began submitting their novels to the Guardian Legend Self-Published Book of the Month competition. Each month, twenty staff readers at Legend are tasked with narrowing down an average of five hundred submissions to a shortlist of ten; a panel of experts—including authors Polly Courtney and Stuart Evans, literary agent Andrew Lownie, and Legend's commissioning editor Lauren Parsons—then chooses the winner of the contest, whose book is reviewed in the Guardian. The first winner was Tom Moran for his comedic novel Dinosaurs and Prime Numbers, which was reviewed in June. Armitstead describes the award as an attempt to keep up with the surging interest in self-publishing and to give high-quality work a valuable platform...........
Link: http://www.pw.org/content/qa_with_claire_armitstead
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