Who is Mark Miller? His publisher, Bernard Fixot, claims not to know him. And that doesn't seem to bother him.
“There are very nice people … But who write badly, he smiles on the phone from Los Angeles where he regularly lives. Here, it's the opposite. I have a good manuscript from someone I don't know. The characters look like us. Added to the suspense and the action is an emotion rarely felt. So, even if the author wants to remain anonymous, I have no problem with that. »
The book, Midnight! New York has all the ingredients to become a bestseller on the beaches this summer. Lorraine goes to New York to run an advertising agency. There, she spends her inheritance by buying a painting at auction for four million euros.
His father, a famous art gallery owner, had dreamed of this painting. He was murdered in the middle of the street twenty years ago. Leaving the auction room, Lorraine is saved from an attack by Léo… himself a gifted painter, with a slightly sulphurous past, a fan of the same painting.
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Dive into the world of art
Obviously, we can't reveal the rest. Just to say that there is suspense, that we are immersed in the world of art, painters and collectors. And that there is love, happy and unhappy. The chapters are short. We jump from twist to twist, with a surprise at the end. In short, the recipe for a successful popular novel.
XO edition, the house of Bernard Fixot, published Guillaume Musso for years until his departure from Calmann-Lévy. Today, XO publishes, for example, the thrillers of Bernard Minier. “We only release twenty books a year, so they are handpicked,” says the publisher.
He found this manuscript in front of his house one day. Lawyers settled the matter. "This is the first time I have been faced with such a 'romantic' situation," he wrote in a statement. The mysterious individual, who contacted me in the United States, just told me that he was French, that he lived a few hours by car from my home, and asked me if I would agree to read his book. novel which he had the intuition could become a great success. The next morning, I find a big envelope on my doorstep. »
Publishing an unknown person is a first in forty years in the business, assures Bernard Fixot. His impressive journey is that of a “self-made-man” of the book. He started as a storekeeper at Hachette, where he returned after becoming commercial director at Gallimard. To end up mounting XO. Today, he lives partly in Los Angeles, where his company sells books to cinemas. “With some, it’s always complicated. This author is not demanding and does not ask for a lot of money. »
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