We’re delighted to announce that, in a deal brokered by The Gotham Group and ICM Partners, major Hollywood studio Relativity Media has acquired the film rights to Richard Parker’s brilliant psychological thriller Scare Me and has signed Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller to adapt the novel for screen.

Miller’s debut screenplay Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Chan-wook Park, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently released to wide critical acclaim.

Scare Me tells the story of a wealthy businessman who receives a phone call in the middle of the night asking him, ‘When did you last google yourself?’ He discovers a website with photos of the inside of his own home, along with six other houses he’s never seen before, inside one of which a gruesome murder has already taken place.

Author Richard Parker said, “Relativity is the perfect home for this project and Wentworth Miller has the sort of dark sensibility that makes him the perfect screenwriter to adapt it.”

Exhibit A acquired dramatic rights to Scare Me as part of a two book deal with Richard Parker last year. Scare Me will be published in the UK and US in paperback and eBook this May.

Exhibit A is delighted to announce that we’ve signed Italian-based UK author Charles Lambert for two novels, The View From the Tower and The Folding World, in a deal concluded by commissioning editor Emlyn Rees and Isobel Dixon of the Blake Friedmann agency.

The View From the Tower is a gripping novel about friendship, love and betrayal, which begins with the killing of a high-level Italian civil servant when his wife is in a Rome hotel room with her lover, not far from the scene of the assassination.

Rees said, “This is an exquisitely-crafted psychological thriller that combines the suspense and wide appeal of a William Boyd or Le Carré novel with a plot that will ensnare readers right from the start and keep them feverishly turning the pages all night.”

Exhibit A will publish The View from the Tower in February 2014, simultaneously in the UK and US, in paperback and eBook.
The author, Charles Lambert, was born in England and educated at Cambridge, but has lived in Italy for more than twenty years. His short fiction has been shortlisted for the Willesden Short Story Prize and his story ‘The Scent of Cinnamon’ won him an O. Henry Prize.

His most recent novel Any Human Face was described by the Bookseller as “immensely impressive … holds you completely enthralled throughout” and in The Telegraph Jake Kerridge described it as “a slow-burning, beautifully written crime story that brings to life the Rome that tourists don’t see – luckily for them.”

The View From the Tower and the novel that follows will continue this suspenseful exploration of Rome’s dark side.

For more info on the author, visit his website at charleslambert.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at @charles_lambert.

Angry Robot’s swathe of cool genre imprints is in need of a lively PUBLICITY MANAGER. The aim of this job is to work with our divine authors, our favourite bookshops, our lovely bloggers and the Robot Army, and our fab distributors who link this all together, to promote the hell out of our books.

Duties include arranging signings and store promotions, placing reviews and articles online and in print, blogging and attending events. You’ll also be making sure all the metadata that feeds all this activity is both correct and snappier than an alligator at lunchtime.

The details:

• The job will include work for Angry Robot (SF/fantasy), Strange Chemistry (fantastical Young Adult) and Exhibit A (crime/thrillers), so an enthusiasm for those genres is essential.
• You’ll be a good communicator, with plenty of ideas and some experience of generating buzz with a modest budget.
• Experience of the UK booktrade and the blogosphere would obviously be useful.
• In return you’ll be joining the coolest SF publisher in the land, become a valued member of our happy band of renegades, and help shape us as we head for total global domination.
• We’re a part of the award-winning Osprey Group of companies, small enough to care, big enough to kick ass.
• The job is based in Nottingham, UK, so if you need a plane ride to get to an interview it’s not for you.

If you are interested, please apply with your CV and salary expectations to AR managing director Marc Gascoigne, care of incoming [at] angryrobotbooks.com with the subject line ‘Job Application – Fiction Publicity Manager’. No postal applications, please.

Don’t delay – the closing date is noon GMT on 25th March 2013.

I know it’s really all about what’s on the inside, not the outside, but damn it all, we’re pretty excited about these first four Exhibit A covers, which we’ve laid out for your perusal and delectation below.

Here at Exhibit A Towers, we’ve gone one better. We’ve got giant printouts of them in all their transcendent glory covering our walls.

Now, I’m not saying we’re obsessed or anything. Just like I’m not saying we’re just sitting here all day gazing up at these stunning images in rapt and loving awe. But, hell yeah, I admit it, Team Ex A members have been noted staring lingeringly at them with increasing frequency. There’s even been some surreptitious stroking of their smooth surfaces. Some whispering too, about their sexy fonts and alluring lines and curves.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and really hope you like them / love them / want to marry them as much as we do. Click the images below for larger versions. And, please, feel free to share them with your friends.

        

You’ll be able to buy the first of these books – Scare Me by Richard Parker and Penance by Dan O’Shea – from late April (US/CAN print and global ebook) and early May (UK print). Wounded Prey by Sean Lynch will follow in late May / early June and The Cambodian Book of the Dead by Tom Vater in late June / early July.

Press Release

 22^nd January 2013

Exhibit A Signs Robert Bailey in Two-Book Crime Fiction Deal

Exhibit A, the crime fiction imprint of Angry Robot Books, has signed debut US author Robert Bailey for two novels, featuring Tom McMurtrie, a long time law professor at the University of Alabama.

Commissioning editor, Emlyn Rees, bought World English rights in The Professor and Between Black & White from Liza Fleissig at the Liza Royce Agency, New York.

The Professor is a US legal thriller about one of legendary Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s football players turned Law Professor, who hasn’t tried a case in forty years until he teams up with a former student for a wrongful death action against the biggest trucking company in the South. The deck was stacked for them to lose, but they had other plans, and what ensues becomes not just a fight for justice, but literally a fight for their lives.

Rees said, “This is a fantastic new take on the US legal thriller. Think John Grisham for the audience that flocked to Friday Night Lights.”

Exhibit A will publish The Professor in January 2014 simultaneously in the UK and US in paperback and eBook.

The author, Robert Bailey, attended Law School at the University of Alabama and is now a civil defense trial lawyer in his hometown of Huntsville. From the time he could walk, he’s loved stories, especially those about Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant and his beloved Alabama Crimson Tide football team. In his free time, Robert enjoys playing golf, watching football and coaching his sons’ little league baseball teams.

You can follow Robert on Twitter @RBaileyBooks.

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WISHING ALL OUR AUTHORS & FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS

OUT THERE IN BOOK LAND

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SEE YOU ALL

IN 2013

FOR THE LAUNCH OF EXHIBIT A

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Press Release

18th December 2012

Angry Robot’s crime imprint, Exhibit A, has acquired two titles by debut Canadian author Dan Newman.

Commissioning editor Emlyn Rees bought World English rights in The Clearing and a follow up from Carrie Pestritto at Prospect Agency, New York.

The Clearing is a neo-Gothic chiller, which tells the story of how four boys walked into a Caribbean jungle in 1976, but only three came back alive. They blamed what happened on a mythical monster, but now almost forty years later the truth is about to come out.

Rees said, “This is a terrifying novel, dealing with our fear of the unknown and our capacity to be tricked into madness. It will appeal to fans of both Shutter Island and Stand By Me and will leave readers too scared to turn out the light.”

Exhibit A will be publishing The Clearing in November 2013 simultaneously in the UK and US.

Press Release

11^th December 2012

Angry Robot’s crime imprint, Exhibit A, has acquired two titles by debut UK author J B Turner.

Commissioning editor Emlyn Rees bought World English rights in No Way Back from Sam Copeland at Rogers, Coleridge & White.

No Way Back is the first in a series of hard-hitting US thrillers featuring the extraordinary partnership between female FBI Assistant Director, Martha Meyerstein, and US Government covert assassin, Jon Reznick.

Rees said, “This is an extremely well-researched and authentic series. A perfect page-turning blend of politics, corruption and thrills.”

Exhibit A will be publishing No Way Back in August 2013 simultaneously in the UK and US.

Press Release

4^th December 2012

Angry Robot’s crime imprint, Exhibit A, has acquired two titles by international bestselling UK author John Matthews, whose previous work has been included in a top ten all-time best legal thrillers list in The Times.

Commissioning editor Emlyn Rees bought World English rights in Letters From a Murderer from Robert Kirby at United Agents.

Letters From a Murderer is the first in a series of hardboiled Victorian detective mysteries featuring Finley Jameson, an aristocratic intellectual English criminal profiler, and Joseph Argenti, a streetwise New York cop.

“With this series, John has very cleverly rebooted the historical thriller to appeal to the sensibilities of the modern reader. If Arthur Conan Doyle had been asked to write a sequel to The Gangs of New York, then this would be it.”

Exhibit A will be publishing Letters From A Murderer in October 2013 simultaneously in the UK and US.

Here at Exhibit A, we’re very proud to be publishing Dan O’Shea‘s blockbusting debut thriller, Penance,  in the English language right around the world next May.

We’re thinking Dan might be a little bit excited about it too, because he’s just designed an awesome new site to help advertise the fact, as well as to steer any readers who haven’t yet discovered him towards his awesome blog and short story collection Old School.

Dan asked us what we though of his site’s reboot.

Dan

The Exhibit A crew considered, pontificated, mused, and drank tea…before finally concluding that Dan’s new site is:

A: ‘Sharper than a tungsten chainsaw.’

B: ‘Meaner than a rattle snake with a migraine.’

C: ‘Slicker than George Clooney’s “Dapper Dan” hair goo in Oh Brother, Where Are Thou.’

D: ‘Finer than a pair of gossamer insoles.’

E: ‘Hipper than an underwear model on an orthopaedic unit.’

F: ‘Wiser than an owl with a degree in astrophysics.’

G: ’Funnier than KajaGooGoo‘s haircuts (and threads).’

H: ‘Smarter than Feliks Zemdegs.’ (He solved the Rubik’s Cube in 5.66 seconds at the Melbourne Winter Open 2011.)

I: ‘Cooler than liquid nitrogen.’

But don’t just take our word for it. Here’s a link to Dan’s new site, so you check it out yourselves: http://www.authordanoshea.com/

Oh, and we’d love to hear your thoughts too…