The HotHive are thrilled to announce that our author, James McIntosh, has won the highly prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Series of Food Books in the World!

The award was announced on 1 July in Paris at Comedie Francaise in Paris. James McIntosh was accompanied by Sue Richardson and Karen Swinden from The HotHive to collect his award.

James, who is from Northern Ireland, is not only an award-winning food writer and excellent cook but a highly qualified home economist. This means that he is genuinely qualified to provide sound advice on food nutrition, lifestyle, and home matters alike . This fantastic award confirms him as the leading food expert in the UK for 2009.

The main objective of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards is to reward and honour those who "cook with words" and to help readers find the very best of food and wine books published every year. This year there were approximately 8,000 entries for the awards and entries from 29 countries for James's category. Edouard Cointreau, president of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, explains that mix. stands out from other entries. "We selected mix. and the series because of its innovative concept; it really helps the readers with practical easy recipes and shows them how to learn the basics. These four small books are just as important as the big books by Blumenthal, Robuchon as they correspond exactly to the needs of today's home cooks: they are cheap, they are practical and they really do work."

Click here to buy James's award-winning book!

The second title in the series, dinner., is now available.

Forthcoming titles include veg. and cake., to be published on 1 September 2009.

For more information on James and his work go to www.jamesmcintosh.co.uk

For more information on the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards go to www.cookbookfair.com

Are you a rising star and expert in your field? Do you have a fresh and innovative approach to your subject? Do you want to win an ‘entrepreneur of the year’ award next year? Then you need to write a book.

The HotHive is an independent, award winning publishing company that works with authors to produce highly professional, reader grabbing books. We are already working with some great rising stars:

• James McIntosh – winner of the Gourmand best UK cookbook in a series for mix.

• Angi Egan, retail branding expert, President of the Midlands Professional Speakers Association and author of the Romancing the Customer series

• Neal Ghandi, CEO of Quickstart Global, an expert in globalisation and helping SMEs to become globally leveraged and author of Born Global

• Paul Campbell, the UK’s real ‘property guru’ with over 20 years’ experience of the property market and survivor of two crashes, and author of Sold!

For more of our rising stars, please see the stories below.

Have you been turned down by the bigger publishers because they only want to work with safe bets? Then come and talk to us. We understand how innovative and creative you are and how important it is for you to get that message out to your audience.

by Jack Delmonte

"A boundless creativity and an insatiable appetite for new experiences with his alter-ego photography career showcasing what really drives him." René Carayol

In January 2008, Jack accepted an international sales role for a global IT company. For the first time, Jack decided to combine his sales job with photography to document his travels. He embarked upon a twelve month photographic essay project and Out of Office is the fruit of this labour.

Fulfilling his two roles contemporaneously is not a trivial matter. From his base in London, he flies to international destinations. His priority is the business meeting where photography plays no part in the process. Often these are short trips to countries where heightened security or opportunity for
photography is minimal.

For this publication he captured images in the high pressure business world he occupies, displaying that even in this often stark and lonely environment, beauty can be found in the simplest of subjects: a hotel table, a street scene at night or just a few free hours spent wandering the city streets.

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