Racing novel authors donate profits to kidney research
Richard Pitman as well as Joe McNally – the British co-authors of the Eddie Malloy serial of racing criminal offense thrillers – are donating all profits from Warned Off for 2012 to Kidney Research UK.
The mass has been their almost popular, and overseas sales are already double the U.K. figure.
Pitman, 69, of late retired from his presenting jobs inwards the media, made an altruistic kidney donation inwards Jan this year, as well as thence went at nowadays into fitness preparation to ride inwards a celebrity consequence at Aintree’s John Smith’s Grand National coming together inwards April.
Pitman said: “Joe as well as I had a fair fleck of success amongst the printed versions of our books inwards the ’90s. We at nowadays accept the publishing rights dorsum as well as we’ve decided to re-publish the whole serial every bit eBooks. We’ll live on getting stuck inwards over the coming months amongst plans to write to a greater extent than racing thrillers. If the ask is high enough, nosotros volition too issue the books inwards paperback.”
McNally, ex-marketing manager at Aintree, met Pitman when they were workmates at SiS. “Richard has written 6 non-fiction books. Reared on Dick Francis, I had a few plot ideas for a fiction serial as well as nosotros pose our heads together as well as started writing. Our instant novel, Hunted, was bought past times Reader’s Digest as well as they published 300,000 copies of it inwards their condensed books series. I’m looking forrard to sitting downwards amongst Richard as well as writing many more.”
Pete Storey, a manager at Kidney Research UK, said: “We are delighted that Richard as well as Joe accept kindly offered to donate all royalties from Warned Off to Kidney Research UK. This sort of generosity helps the Charity proceed funding life-saving interrogation into the prevention as well as handling of kidney illness which sadly affects over 3 1 one 1000 thousand people inwards the UK.”
Warned Off is available on Amazon.co.uk as well as on Amazon.com. It went on sale on June 20, 2012.
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