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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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Deals: Week of 12/13/10
Katherine Tegen Finds 'Bliss'; Perigee Goes with Smith, Again; and More.
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Glenn Cooper: An American Writer Only Europeans Can Love?
He's big in Italy. Ditto England, Germany, and Spain. But Massachusetts-based thriller author Glenn Cooper is still largely unknown, and notably under-published, in the one place you'd least expect: his home country of America.
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Sandra Brown Signs With Grand Central
Sandra Brown is returning to her old house. The bestselling author signed a three book deal with Hachette's Grand Central Publishing imprint, restarting a relationship that ended in 2002 when Brown decamped for Simon & Schuster. Grand Central published 16 novels by Brown, starting with 1988's Slow Heat in Heaven.
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Deals: Week of 12/6/10
Wiley Signs Two from Gediman; Frederickson Talks 'Love'; and More.
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A Rush on Books by Tea Party Candidates? Conservative Imprints Say No
Scott Brown did it. Rand Paul did it. And now Christine O’Donnell has done it. The trend of Tea Party candidates--winners and losers--landing book deals would seem to indicate that publishers are hot for titles by these much-covered politicians. Editors at conservative imprints, however, say books by Tea Party politicians are less attractive than books about the movement itself.
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Deals: Week of 11/29/10
FSG Kids Inks Brody For Four; Martin Closes Hat Trick At HMH; and More.
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Deals: Week of 11/22/10
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Paver Moves to Puffin for New Series
Bestselling British children's author Michelle Paver has signed a world rights five-book deal with Penguin UK's Puffin imprint for a new series called Gods & Warriors. The first book in the Bronze Age-set tale is scheduled to come out in autumn 2012.
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Deals: Week of 11/15/10
Levy Re-Ups with Two Dollar Radio; Romeo & Juliet, Updated; Kaufman Gets 'Amp'-ed; Simmons Settles at Hyperion; and More.
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Licensing Hotline: November 2010
Random House is adding to its portfolio of boys' titles with a new line tied to Cartoon Network's Generator Rex. "It's a little bit monsters, a little bit superhero, a little bit sci-fi," says Dennis Shealy, editorial director, licensed and novelty properties, Random House/Golden Books Young Readers Group.
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