Tomasson-Knight's author portfolio includes both established and first-time writers in a
broad range of categories. Clients with novels on release in 2005 include:
Mikita Brottman earned her PHD at Oxford University and is currently Professor of Language and Literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Her first television play, Emily, was winner of the Silver Award for Drama in New York in 1985, and she received a Writers' Achievement Award from the British Arts Council in 1995. Linda Hoy is currently based in Sheffield, UK.
Noble's works include Border Town (Independent Press, 1999) and What's Right (Goldbæk, 2002)
Mikita Brottman
Mikita Brottman has been described one of the most provocative authors working in alternative culture today. Her works address such 'uncomfortable' topics as snuff movies, cannibalism and car crashes, making accessible many topics previously seen as taboo. Her works include Offensive Films: Toward an Anthropology of Cinema Vomitif (Greenwood, 1997), Meat is Murder: An Illustrated Guide to Cannibal Culture (Creation, 2001), Hollywood Hex (Creation, 1999), Car Crash Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Hollywood Top Ten: Jack Nicholsen (Creation 2000). Her latest work is entitled Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor (Analytic, 2004).Mikita Brottman earned her PHD at Oxford University and is currently Professor of Language and Literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Linda Hoy
Linda Hoy has been a favourite in the UK since her first novel, Your Friend Rebecca, was published in 1981. Translated into several languages, Linda Hoy is the author of fourteen works of fiction for children and teenagers, and two anthologies. Her works include 1994 Children's Book Award winner Haddock 'N' Chips (Walker books 1988) Kiss (Walker Books 1989) Nightmare Park (Collins 1987) Ring of Death (Armada 1990) United on Vacation (Walker Paperbacks 1995) and Dear Poltergeist (Walker Paperbacks, 2000)Her first television play, Emily, was winner of the Silver Award for Drama in New York in 1985, and she received a Writers' Achievement Award from the British Arts Council in 1995. Linda Hoy is currently based in Sheffield, UK.
Jessica Brandt
Tomasson-Knight is pleased to announce the recent signing of Jessica Brandt. Based in the United States, Jessica is a novelist of both historical and category romance as well as contemporary romantic comedy. Her works include The Violin, The Reluctant Heiress, The Original, and It Takes One to Know One. Ms. Brandt is a member of the Maryland Romance Writers and Romance Writers of America.Marcus Geiss
Marcus Geiss is that rarest of writers - a continental European most comfortable writing in English. Geiss is responsible for the German language translation of Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, which was published in Germany by Kiepenheuer & Witsch and Rogner & Bernhard, and has since penned his own novel about football, My World at Your Feet. He studied law and English literature in Freiburg and Manchester and holds a Ph.D. in European law. His previous publications include an English translation of The Birth of a European Constitutional Order by Jürgen Schwarze. Geiss is currently living in Munich and working on his second novel.Henry Noble
An Englishman based in Denmark, Henry Noble has been described by one critic as a Scandinavian Bukowski - 'in liquor intake if not talent'. Noble's novels describe life on the mean streets of one of Europe's more affluent cities - Copenhagen - where 'robbery, retribution and raw herring make for a sordid smorgasbord'Noble's works include Border Town (Independent Press, 1999) and What's Right (Goldbæk, 2002)
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