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Sat 04 Apr 2011So big book deals can still happen
Kathleen MacMahon’s book advance is great news – for her and for all first-time Irish writers, writes ROSITA BOLAND
ANY FIRST-TIME Irish writers quietly beavering away on a novel will have been cheered this week by the news of the latest big publishing deal. RTÉ television journalist Kathleen MacMahon will be receiving £600,000 (more than €680,000) for her two-book contract. This Is How It Endswill be published some time next year by Little, Brown on this side of the Atlantic and by Grand Central in the US.
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