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YouWriteOn Member's Book Published in 3 Book Deal with Award Winning Publisher - Johnny Mackintosh

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YouWriteOn.com is delighted to announce that member Keith Mansfield's children's novel Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London is published today in a three book deal with award winning publisher Quercus. Quercus is the publisher of bestselling books such as Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves, which won the Costa Best Novel Award, and also Peter Temple’s The Broke Shore.

View Opening Chapters of Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London     View Book on WH Smith

Keith informs us: "Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London comes out on 3rd July. So it's another success for the site.

The setting ended up changing completely from the one that appeared on YouWriteOn, but of course the core of the book remains much as it was (I think that might actually be quite informative for how you can improve a book and alter it quite radically while staying true to it). I was hugely grateful to the YouWriteOn reviewers and worked with all of their comments as I set about that task or reworking the story.

Now it's paid off so handsomely, I'm thinking about posting the first chapter of book 2 on the site to see what people think about it.

Thanks to you and everyone who participates on the YWO site for helping to make it all possible. I hope my story will encourage others to persevere.

Thanks and best wishes

Keith"

Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London Synopsis: When thirteen-year-old Johnny's specially programmed computer, Kovac, detects an extraterrestrial signal, his life is set to change for ever. Until then, stuck in his children's home in Castle Dudbury New Town, with the nasty cook Mr Wilkins watching his every move, football had been his only escape. But soon things start happening around him that Johnny doesn't understand. Why is his mother, who is on life support in a hospital for the criminally insane, being guarded by sinister looking men? And why was a journalist murdered shortly after Johnny talked to him? When Johnny finds out he has a sister, he decides to run away to find her. But his search for answers take him beyond Earth and into a spectacular adventure through time and space where he visits new worlds, meets aliens, and along the journey discovers the truth about his parents and who he really is.”


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