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|  Red Telephone Books is a new publishing company from Manchester, UK. We publish great new fiction for Young Adults.
The first book published by The Red Telephone was The Prophecy, a futuristic YA dystopia by
Gill James. The sequel, Babel, was released in summer 2011.
Our 2009 novel writing competition was won by Alex Smith, with her romantic YA adventure Calling For Angels.
We have now launched our 2011 YA novel competition, giving you the chance to sign with The Red Telephone and see your novel get published. Full details are on the competition microsite.
****LATEST RED TELEPHONE NEWS****
26/8/11
Call for YA authors to submit short stories
Red Telephone Books are offering YA authors the chance to get their short fiction reviewed, edited and published online.
The Manchester-based company have decided to open up their new blog to selected YA authors in order to showcase their talent.
Featured authors will see their story published on the blog, accompanied by a short interview, biography, picture and links to their websites / social media pages.
Red
Telephone's assistant editor Ollie Wright said, "We want to build
relationships with new authors and see this as a great opportunity to
identify talented writers, with a view to potentially working with them
in the future."
Ollie
will provide written feedback to all authors who submit their short
fiction, but stressed that only the best stories received would be
published on the Red Telephone blog.
Any
stories featured on the Red Telephone blog remain the property of the
author, to use in any other way they see fit. There is no charge for
submitting your short fiction to The Red Telephone.
To submit your short fiction to the Red Telephone, or if you have any queries, please email admin@theredtelephone.co.uk.
Along with your story, please include: - - 50-word biography
- Any relevant weblinks
Meanwhile, the Red Telephone 2011 YA novel competition is open until 31st December 2011. For more information, please visit http://theredtelephone.co.uk/2011YANovelCompetition.aspx.
18/8/11
Alex Smith recently took time out to comment on her experiences as our 2009 novel competition winner: -
When
I entered The Red Telephone novel competition back in 2009, I completely put it
out of my mind afterwards, as I knew I would be up against contestants a lot
older than myself. I never expected anything to come out of it. So
imagine my amazement when I found out I was the winner.
My
first reaction was, “are you serious?” I couldn’t take it in until I saw Calling
For Angels in print and even now, I still find it difficult to believe.
Working
with The Red Telephone on the novel was a fantastic experience. I had a
lot of help, as I had no prior knowledge of how a book was published. I
was involved in the various stages of development in the production of the
book, from meeting the cover artist through to the editing process and it was
really exciting to see my novel transformed.
One
of the most memorable moments was the book launch in November 2010 and I felt
really lucky that The Red Telephone organised the event. Gill James came
to support the launch, which helped to publicise the book locally. It was
great fun for my family and friends to actually see the novel.
After
the launch, The Red Telephone publicised Calling For Angels by sending
it off to reviewers and organising a US blog tour. It’s pretty scary to
think people are actually reviewing your book, but I guess that’s what happens
when you get a book published!
What
I also really liked was that both Gill and Ollie sent me links to new competitions
and opportunities, which led my involvement with the Guardian
Children’s Book Site. I really enjoyed working with The Red Telephone and it was a great introduction to publishing for me, as a first-time writer - Alex Smith
8/7/11
8/7/11
Another wonderful review for the terrific Calling For Angels: -
"If you want a brilliantly written, encouraging, positive, optimistic, non-violent, everything-but-shallow, realistic,
sweetly innocent, yet exciting and intense novel, a novel to which they
will easily relate, treat your teen bookworm to Calling for Angels."
(Ivana Maric, Willing to See Less)
23/6/11
Gill James is offering free author visits to UK schools, to coincide with the launch of her new young adult sci fi adventure for older teens, Babel. Visit the school visits microsite for more details.
27/5/11
Babel by Gill James is out now.
This futuristic adventure for young adults, set on the dystopian planet
Terrestra, is the second volume in the Peace Child Trilogy.
Babel and volume one of the trilogy, The Prophecy, are also now both available for Kindle, priced at £4.60 each in the UK.
View Babel in the Kindle store
View The Prophecy in the Kindle store
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