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Newton's Law: John Jarrold Literary Agency Must Expand
05/07/2004 . Source: Jessica Martin 
A second name joins fantasy author Stephen Hunt at new genre lit. agency. John Jarrold has taken on his second author as a literary agent. Mark Newton is 23 years old and works in the Coventry branch of Ottakar's Bookstores as SF and Fantasy buyer.
'I was put in touch with Mark by George Mann, who worked with Mark at Ottakar's in Coventry before his recent move to BL Publishing,' said Jarrold. 'George is an old chum and a published author with both fiction and non-fiction to his credit. He rates Mark highly, and when I read the opening twenty thousand words of Mark's novel, The Book of Transformations, I was blown away. It has some of the best descriptive writing I've seen in the genre over the past ten years or more, and fascinating characters. Mark has a truly original imagination, and I have no doubt he's going to be one of the stars of SF and fantasy in the new millennium.'
Newton acknowledges influences from Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino to M John Harrison and China Miéville. He characterises his first novel as 'A strange fantasy hybrid concerning the themes of identity and the lengths we go to in order to hide from or change ourselves, set on the desert world of Has-jahn .
'It is nothing short of a privilege to be able to work with John. To merely be somewhere under his umbrella - in the shadows of figures such as Michael Moorcock and Iain Banks - is very exciting and a little daunting too.'
You can find more on JJ's new literary agency at https://www.sff.net/people/john-jarrold/
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