Jackson hits two million sales

Electric Monkey has announced that author Holly Jackson has sold two million copies of her books across all formats in the UK and export. According to Nielsen BookScan TCM, 787,712 of those have been sold in the UK for £4.8m.

Jackson’s TikTok popular book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Electric Monkey), has emerged as her UK bestseller, with 404,733 copies sold in the original 2019 paperback via the TCM. The book spent 17 weeks in the Nielsen Children’s & YA top 10 fiction chart, and has sold in 33 languages to date.

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder also won the British Book Award Children’s Book of the Year with the first book in the series, and is currently being filmed for a BBC Three TV series adaptation by Moonage Pictures.

Most recently, Electric Monkey published Jackson’s first novel Five Survive in hardback, with a paperback to follow in summer 2023. Described by the publisher as an "explosive standalone thriller set in real-time over the course of eight breath-taking hours", the book reached the top spot in the Nielsen YA Fiction Chart.

Jackson said: "I am eternally grateful for everyone who worked so hard to bring these books to life, and who are still hard at work keeping them on the shelves and getting them into reader’s hands. This series has achieved more than I ever imagined and with the TV show shooting later this year it looks like 2023 is Pip’s year."

Lindsey Heaven, fiction publishing director, added: "Holly is an exceptional talent in the YA and crime thriller book world – particularly for an author whose debut was written at such a young age. Working with her is a masterclass in the art of complex and clever plotting and she is, by far, one of the authors most dedicated to the craft of writing that I’ve ever met."

Jackson’s agent, Sam Copeland, director at RCW Literary Agency, said: "Every single week of 2022 Holly has been on the New York Times series list and her new novel Five Survive was a number one NYT bestseller. In the UK her dominance has increased. She has reinvigorated the UK YA market and is an international success story we should all be proud of."