booktrade.info - Book Trade News - Best-Selling Chick-Lit Author Killed Herself After Marriage Break-Up

Saturday 4th February

Best-Selling Chick-Lit Author Killed Herself After Marriage Break-Up

Posted at 9:49PM Thursday 04 Feb 2010

Best-selling chick-lit author Susan Morgan killed herself in a hotel room after her husband walked out on her, it has been revealed.

The 52-year-old, who wrote under the pseudonyms Zoe Barnes and Sue Dyson, took an overdose of painkillers while on holiday on the Isle of Man.

Share |

Daily book trade headlines and breaking publishing news by email - just £3 a month. Click on the Subscribe button below to sign up now

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Theodore Boone are among the books vying for the title

Random House officials said the "terms of sale" for Random House e-books to libraries will change

Fierce bidding war, apparently

BEA Adds Children's Day
www.publishersweekly.com

Reed Exhibitions and the American Booksellers Association have made a number of tweaks

Schooldchildren from across London are being invited to Selfridges - not to shop, but for reading lessons with a difference

Waterstones stops using unpaid jobseekers, as government rejects claim scheme is contrary to Human Rights Act