Good Housekeeping has teamed up with Orion Books and top literary agent Luigi Bonomi to give one talented reader the chance to get ahead start in the hugely competitive world of book publishing, by seeing their novel on the bookshelves.
First prize is a £25,000 advance, help and advice from the editorial team at Orion Books and from agent Luigi Bonomi, plus the chance to have the winning book published and featured in Good Housekeeping. The three runners up will each receive an Advent Monza C1 laptop.
Launching in the January issue (on sale 1 December), the Good Housekeeping novel competition is looking for someone who’s never had a novel published and entries can be in any genre – family saga, romance, adventure or crime/thriller – except children’s literature.
A panel of Good Housekeeping and Orion Books literary experts including bestselling author, co-founder of the Orange Prize for Fiction and co-director of the Chichester Writing Festival Kate Mosse, top literary agent Luigi Bonomi, Orion Books Fiction Publishing Director Kate Mills and Good Housekeeping Editorial Director Lindsay Nicholson, will judge the competition with details of the winner being published in the August 2012 issue.
Good Housekeeping Editorial Director Lindsay Nicholson says, “We are delighted to be launching the Good Housekeeping Novel Competition, in association with Orion Books. From Jane Austen to Kate Mosse, Britain has produced some of the world’s most successful and enduring authors, and in such a competitive world we’re looking forward to discovering the UK’s next big literary talent.”
Orion Books Fiction Publishing Director Kate Mills says, “I’m delighted to be involved in the Good Housekeeping Novel Competition. I’m always meeting writers who are feverishly working away in isolation and this a fantastic opportunity to get that hard work read and recognised, with a great prize. It would be terrific to discover an exciting new fiction voice and I can’t wait to start reading the entries.”
The Good Housekeeping novel competition, in association with Orion Books, launches in the January 2012 issue, on sale Thursday 1 December.
