![]() In the end Mallory sold the American rights to Morrow, the publisher he worked for (who did not initially know it was his work) his novel went on to secure him deals in 37 different territories (“We think it might be a record for a debut novel,” he suggests.) The Woman in the Window boasts blurbs from Stephen King – “Unputdownable” – and Gillian Flynn – “Astounding. The authors he published – including Karin Slaughter, Peter Robinson and Nicci French – had known auctions of their own. ![]() Prior to that he had been the publisher of the British mass-market crime imprint Sphere. ![]() ![]() When he submitted his manuscript (under his “gender-neutral” pseudonym AJ Finn) he was a senior editor at the New York publishing house, William Morrow. Unlike the one or two other debut authors who, each year, win that particular lottery, Mallory, now 38, was not a stranger to this process. ![]() By the time Mallory returned to New York a few days later a worldwide auction was in place for his book, with offers reported in seven figures by then the film rights had been pre-emptively sold to Fox. The book – The Woman in the Window – was already being talked of as the natural successor to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. All these things coincided and the character of Anna strode into my brain, lugging her story behind her ![]()
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