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In 2012, I had an idea for a novel called The Desire Card, which centered around a sinister organization that promised "Any Wish Fulfilled for the Right Price." I'd been speaking to a doctor friend of mine about the difficulty of getting a liver transplant, and an idea gelled: What if someone who'd always been able to get anything he wanted in life desired a liver and contacted an organization   Read more

The subscription newsletter platform Substack announced on Wednesday it had signed an exclusive deal with Salman Rushdie - but he is just the latest in a growing number of authors making the leap to write serialised fiction delivered straight to the inboxes of subscribers who pay a monthly fee.

Netflix's blockbuster show, Bridgerton, has led to renewed demand for the Regency-era novels by Julia Quinn that form the basis for the eight-episode program. Netflix released Bridgerton on December 25 and since that time, HarperCollins's Avon imprint reports that it has sold a total of 750,000 copies of books from the series, including 285,000 copies last week.