THE SECRET AUTHOR has always regarded the Bookseller as a symbol of pretty much everything that is wrong with contemporary publishing. Nevertheless, he took a keen interest in a story that appeared there at the beginning of last month.
Here it was revealed that Ana Fletcher, a former employee at Jonathan Cape who had worked with such luminaries of the modern novel as Martin Amis, Howard Jacobson and Ian McEwan, was founding an agency called Unfolding Edits.
Its aim, Ms Fletcher explained, was to “demystify the art
