E-books E-merge

Ever since she was a 10-year-old in Liverpool, England, turning out adventure stories, Patricia le Roy wanted to be a writer. But aside from some love poems written at university and a bit of journalism for a Paris expatriate newspaper, le Roy remained unpublished and got on with her life — a degree in French at the University of Sussex, a husband in Paris, two children, a job as a manuscript editor at Radio Liberty. Then in 1997, a British e-publisher, Online Originals, snapped up her fourth novel, The Glass Palace Chronicle. Her next e-book, The Angels of Russia, was chosen...

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