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Writer's Digest, Author Solutions Launch Abbott Press
Writer's Digest, the longtime publication and media company devoted to helping writers get published, is teaming up with self-publishing vendor Author Solutions to launch Abbott Press, a Writer's Digest-branded self-publishing division that will be managed by Author Solutions.
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Deals: Week of 1/31/11
Von Ziegesar Goes 'Psycho' and more.
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Deals: Week of 1/24/11
Dutton Kids Gets 'Remarkable' and More.
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Deals: Week of 1/17/11
Klausner Goes to Poppy and More.
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OR Books Crashing WikiLeaks Title
Another publisher is entering the fray with a book on WikiLeaks. After PublicAffairs announced Monday that it was crashing a book about the website by journalists from The Guardian, OR Books has revealed it has a book on the site as well -- Micah L. Silfry's WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency. Silfry is an expert on politics and the Internet, per OR, and the book, which will be available in paperback and e-book, is scheduled for February 21.
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PublicAffairs Releasing Book on Wikileaks
Perseus's PublicAffairs imprint has signed a book by a group of British journalists about Wikileaks called Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy. The authors, who include David Leigh and Luke Harding, all work for The Guardian and have been covering Assange and his muckraking Web site since they started making headlines.
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Deals: Week of 1/10/11
Penguin Goes to Macedonia and more.
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Deals: Week of 1/3/11
STC Gets More ‘Good Eats' and more
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Crown to Crash Tell-All by Wikileaks Insider
It seems that you can't peruse the Internet, or open a newspaper, without seeing mention of Wikileaks. Hoping to capitalize on that fact, Random House's Crown division acquired world English rights to an insider tell-all about the controversial Web site by its former spokesman, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. The book, Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website, is scheduled for a February 15, 2011 release.
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Portfolio Acquires McChrystal Memoir
Penguin's Portfolio imprint acquired world rights to a memoir by retired general Stanley McChrystal. McChrsytal is the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and his book, which is currently untitled, is scheduled for 2012. Portfolio president Adrian Zackheim brokered the deal with lawyer Robert Barnett, of Williams & Connolly.
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Bookseller Buys Dahl Story
The unfinished Roald Dahl children's story that went up for auction on eBay last week fetched $1,900 for Jerry Biederman, who has owned the document and the rights to the story since 1982 when he paid Dahl $200 for its use in the proposed Do-It-Yourself Children's Storybook. The two typed pages were purchased by Robert Utter, owner of the Other Tiger Bookstore in Westerly, R.I.
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SMP Buys Morton Book On Prince William and New Bride
St. Martin's Press has acquired star biographer Andrew Morton's new book, William and Catherine. The book, about Prince William and the woman who recently became his fiancee, Kate Middleton, is scheduled to be released shortly after couple's highly publicized wedding at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011.
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Deals: Week of 12/20/10
Guinn on Manson and more.
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Bloomsbury Nabs YA Series by Monica Seles
In a two-book deal, Bloomsbury Children's Books acquired world rights to a new YA series by former tennis star Monica Seles called The Academy. Melanie Cecka at Bloomsbury bought the titles from John Steele at IMG, who brokered the deal for Seles.
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Scholastic Buys Selznick's 'Wonderstruck'
Scholastic has acquired the new book by Brian Selznick, author of the bestselling The Invention of Hugo Cabret. His new novel, Wonderstruck, is scheduled for a simultaneous release on September 13, 2011, in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. According to the publisher, it will feature more than 460 pages of original drawings and will intertwine two stories set 50 years apart.
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Juan Williams Signs Two-Book Deal With Crown
The Fox News analyst who caused a national stir over freedom of speech issues in November when he was fired from NPR for comments he made on-air about Muslims, Juan Williams, has signed a two-book deal with Random House's Crown Publishers division. The first book, which is currently untitled, will be about freedom of speech and, per the publisher, "the growing difficulty in America of speaking out on sensitive topics."
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