…As yet there hasn’t been a bestselling a writer amongst us – though a couple of us have come close (Eliza Graham has sold 100,000 copies of her first book in Germany alone and Brian McGilloway’s fan base is escalating) – but I get the feeling that this is about to change.
Last year, Ann Weisgarber’s Personal History of Rachel DuPree became the 30th book to be published Macmillan New Writing, and now it has been short-listed for the Orange New Writers prize, along with Francesca Kay and Nami Mun.But that’s not all. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree has also been long-listed for the main Orange prize too, and over on the blog, we’ve got everything crossed that Ann’s book will get the main prizes. Just being listed is awesome, but here’s hoping that there are great things ahead for her, the book, and I guess the imprint too. (I’ll try to restrain myself by saying that Robert McCrum ‘can eat my shorts’ for the comments he made in 2006 about the very idea of Macmillan New Writing).
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