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Michele Gorman

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Michele Gorman
Gorman in 2019
Gorman in 2019
BornPittsfield, Massachusetts, United States
Pen nameLilly Bartlett
OccupationAuthor
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Illinois at Chicago
GenreChick lit, fiction
Notable worksSingle in the City
The Curvy Girls Club
The Big Little Wedding in Carlton Square
The Staycation
Website
michelegorman.co.uk

Michele Gorman is an American-born British author.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Gorman is represented by Hardman & Swainson.[7] Her debut, Single in the City, was published by Penguin Books;[6][8] Gorman has now published more than a dozen books with Notting Hill Press[9] in the US and Orion/Trapeze and HarperCollins in the UK and the rest of the world.[10][11][12][4] She also writes cosy romantic comedies under the pen-name Lilly Bartlett.

Career

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Gorman was raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts,[13] and her background is financial rather than literary. She went back to school full-time in Chicago for her master's degree in Sociology.[13] In 1998 she moved to London where she worked as a market analyst for more than a decade.[13][14][15][16][17]

Her first book, Single in the City, was published by Penguin Books in June 2010. In 2014 she signed with Avon (publisher), an imprint of HarperCollins[18] and in 2017 she moved to HarperImpulse for the publication of her Lilly Bartlett pen-named books.[19] In 2020 she signed with Orion/Trapeze for the publication of The Staycation.[12] Today she is a full-time author living in London.[13][7]

In 2012, Gorman joined forces with fellow chick lit authors Talli Roland and Belinda Jones to found Notting Hill Press.[20][21]

Books

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References

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  1. ^ Flood, Alison (4 September 2012). "Sock puppetry and fake reviews: publish and be damned". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  2. ^ Hyslop, Leah (31 January 2012). "The chick-lit author who followed her heart to London". The Daily Telegraph.
  3. ^ Gorman, Michele (3 August 2010). "Michele Gorman". The Guardian. London.
  4. ^ a b "Author Details : Michele Gorman". www.harpercollins.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015.
  5. ^ Flood, Alison (12 December 2011). "Michele Gorman's chick-lit à la carte". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Michele Gorman". www.penguin.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 March 2017.
  7. ^ a b "Michele Gorman".
  8. ^ "Hong Kong: My kind of town". The Daily Telegraph. London. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  9. ^ Nottinghillpress.co.uk Archived 16 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Gorman, Michele (7 August 2019). The Staycation. ISBN 9781409190110.
  11. ^ "The Staycation by Michele Gorman sold to Trapeze! – Hardman & Swainson". www.hardmanswainson.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2020.
  12. ^ a b "Trapeze flies in for Gorman's Staycation | the Bookseller".
  13. ^ a b c d Michelegorman.co.uk
  14. ^ Michelegorman.co.uk Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Accountingweb.co.uk
  16. ^ "Britain's millionaire club is growing". 2 April 2001.
  17. ^ "Affluence benefits marketeers". TheGuardian.com. 2 April 2001.
  18. ^ Thebookseller.com
  19. ^ "Lilly Bartlett".
  20. ^ Lamb, Joyce (3 June 2013). "Discover the best of British chick lit/rom-com". USA Today.
  21. ^ "New press hits on 'third way' between traditional and self-publishing". TheGuardian.com. 12 June 2013.
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