Sutcliffe's editor at Bloomsbury, Hannah Sandford, said: “I’m delighted to be working with William Sutcliffe. The two book deal for world rights, all languages (excluding Europe) was brokered between Rebecca McNally, publishing director for Bloomsbury Children’s Books, and Felicity Rubinstein at Lutyens & Rubinstein. This will be followed by a second, as yet untitled, humorous novel for autumn 2018 exploring "the highs and lows of adolescence". It is also a love story, according to its author. The first, We See Everything, publishes in September 2017 and is described by Bloomsbury as a "gripping and powerfully relevant" thriller set in a closed-off, bombed-out London where constant surveillance is the norm. Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired two Young Adult titles from William Sutcliffe.
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Ausiello contributed to the website's weekly podcast, TV Guide Talk and the weekly TV Guide Channel program The 411 with a five-minute segment entitled "The Big Five", where he commented on the top five entertainment industry stories of the week. Ausiello's columns at TV Guide included Today's News, The Ausiello Report, a weekly print column that expanded into a regularly updated blog online, and Ask Ausiello, an exclusively online weekly Q&A. During his eight-year tenure at TV Guide, he wrote for both the magazine and its website. Career Īusiello spent three years as the senior news editor of Soaps In Depth magazine and served as media relations coordinator at Entertainment Tonight. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Ausiello also published a memoir in 2017, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies.Īusiello grew up in Roselle Park, New Jersey, and attended Roselle Park High School. 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