No, not those National Book Awards. E.L. James will square off with the likes of Bernard Cornwell, Victoria Hislop and Kate Mosse in the Popular Fiction category of the U.K.'s National Book Awards on Dec. 4 in London.
JoJo Moyes
Profits at the book publisher Penguin slumped by almost 50% in the first six months, thanks in part to the runaway global success of EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey, which is published by a rival, Vintage Books.
The runaway success of Fifty Shades and The Hunger Games helped cut sales at Penguin by 4% to £441m and its adjusted operating profit down 48% to £22m.
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