Michele Gorman
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Michele Gorman | |
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 Gorman in 2019 | |
| Born | Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States |
| Pen name | Lilly Bartlett |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Genre | Chick lit, fiction |
| Notable works | Single in the City The Curvy Girls Club The Big Little Wedding in Carlton Square The Staycation |
| Website | |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- Gorman, Michele (2010). Single in the City. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780141048260.
- Gorman, Michele (2012). Misfortune Cookie. Notting Hill Press. ISBN 9781478248767.
- Gorman, Michele (2012). Twelve Days to Christmas. Notting Hill Press. ISBN 9781479103676.
- Gorman, Michele (2013). Life Change. Notting Hill Press. ISBN 9781481277693.
- Gorman, Michele (2013). Christmas Carol. Notting Hill Press. ISBN 9781492242611.
- Gorman, Michele (2014). Perfect Girl. Notting Hill Press. ISBN 9781499179330.
- Gorman, Michele (2015). The Curvy Girls Club. HarperCollins. ISBN 9781499179330.
- Gorman, Michele (2016). Match Me If You Can. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780007585663.
- Gorman, Michele (2016). Love is a Four-Legged Word. Notting Hill Press. ISBN 9781539062165.
- Bartlett, Lilly (2017). The Big Little Wedding in Carlton Square. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008226589.
- Bartlett, Lilly (2017). The Second Chance Cafe in Carlton Square. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008226602.
- Bartlett, Lilly (2017). The Big Dreams Beach Hotel. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008226626.
- Bartlett, Lilly (2017). Christmas at the Falling-Down Guesthouse. Notting Hill Press. ISBN 9781502736253.
References
[edit]- ^ Flood, Alison (4 September 2012). "Sock puppetry and fake reviews: publish and be damned". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ Hyslop, Leah (31 January 2012). "The chick-lit author who followed her heart to London". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Gorman, Michele (3 August 2010). "Michele Gorman". The Guardian. London.
- ^ a b "Author Details : Michele Gorman". www.harpercollins.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015.
- ^ Flood, Alison (12 December 2011). "Michele Gorman's chick-lit à la carte". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ a b "Michele Gorman". www.penguin.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Michele Gorman".
- ^ "Hong Kong: My kind of town". The Daily Telegraph. London. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ Nottinghillpress.co.uk Archived 16 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gorman, Michele (7 August 2019). The Staycation. ISBN 9781409190110.
- ^ "The Staycation by Michele Gorman sold to Trapeze! – Hardman & Swainson". www.hardmanswainson.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Trapeze flies in for Gorman's Staycation | the Bookseller".
- ^ a b c d Michelegorman.co.uk
- ^ Michelegorman.co.uk Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Accountingweb.co.uk
- ^ "Britain's millionaire club is growing". 2 April 2001.
- ^ "Affluence benefits marketeers". TheGuardian.com. 2 April 2001.
- ^ Thebookseller.com
- ^ "Lilly Bartlett".
- ^ Lamb, Joyce (3 June 2013). "Discover the best of British chick lit/rom-com". USA Today.
- ^ "New press hits on 'third way' between traditional and self-publishing". TheGuardian.com. 12 June 2013.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- [1] at HarperCollins
- Michele Gorman at Penguin Books
- Michele Gorman at Hardman & Swainson
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- Living people
- Writers from Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- American expatriates in England
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- British romantic fiction writers
- Women romantic fiction writers
- British chick lit writers
- British women novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- 21st-century British women writers
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