This Could Mean the Apocalypse People

Now would-be writers are to get the reality TV show treatment in an attempt to find a new Dan Brown or JK Rowling.Aspiring authors will be invited to pitch their ideas for a blockbuster novel to a panel of judges headed by Tony Cowell, big brother of The X Factor’s Simon Cowell.

Bestseller is billed as a literary version of Dragons’ Den, the BBC show in which budding entrepreneurs try to persuade investors to back them.

Winners will receive a six-figure advance and a deal with a major publisher in Britain and America. Contestants who survive the first round will be ‘mentored’ by a line-up of authors expected to include Jackie Collins and Jeffrey Archer.

7 thoughts on “This Could Mean the Apocalypse People”

  1. Kevin Church

    Wow, I can’t wait to see the amazing editing action and maybe even some typing!

    (When I was coming up with the bad guys for COVER GIRL, I was told not to use hackers: they’re boring and they type a lot – who wants to see that? I think TV producers could learn something from this.)

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  3. Imani

    I’m stuck on the idea that we’re going to see writerly “mentoring” in action. How the heck does that work? How long will they get with the mentor?

    Huh?

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  5. DH

    Gack! Could the Cowells just fall off the face of the earth already?

    And being the next Dan Brown is something worth striving towards? *snark*

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