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HarperCollins has bought world rights for books from three writers that it discovered on its social networking site for writers, Authonomy.com, for an undisclosed sum.
The titles will all be published in the summer. HC's mass market imprint Avon will publish Coffee at Kowalski's by Miranda Dickson and The Reaper by Steve Dunne. Real-lives imprint HarperTrue bought Never Say Die by Lynne Barrett-Lee.
The Authonomy website was set up in September and has attracted more than 100,000 users, with more than 2,000 manuscripts uploaded onto the site. Each manuscript is voted on by Authonomy users, with the highest ranked guaranteed to be read by a HarperCollins editor each month.
Sammia Rafique, editorial and sales assistant at Avon, bought Coffee at Kowalski's as part of a three-book deal. Rafique also signed Steven Dunne in a two-book deal while publisher Carole Tonkinson bought Never Say Die by Melanie Davies and novelist Lynne Barrett-Lee.