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Deals: Week of 5/24/10

By Rachel Deahl (@deahlsdeals) | 05/24/2010 @ 12:00AM
Rights Report: May 20

| 05/20/2010 @ 12:00AM

Walden Media will produce a film version of Frank Cottrell Boyce’s novel Cosmic; Razorbill has acquired world English rights to a debut middle-grade novel, Giant Man-Eating Frogs with Hideous Fangs! by Richard Farr, and Tracy Gates at Viking has bought the next installments in Alane Ferguson's Edgar-nominated forensic mysteries series, The Academy.
S&S's MTV Books to Release 'Jersey Shore' Tie-In

by Rachel Deahl | 05/17/2010 @ 12:00AM

Fist-pumping guidos and juicehead-loving guidettes--and the millions who fell in love with them watching MTV's unexpected reality hit Jersey Shore--will soon have a companion book to guide them through the memorable sayings delivered on the show, Gym, Tanning, Laundry: The Official Jersey Shore Quote Book. The book will be published under the MTV Books imprint at Simon & Schuster and will include a 30-minute DVD of bonus material from the show. The trade paperback, which is due out in June and will include photos, marks the first official book tie-in to the show, though not the first title to capitalize on the sudden stardom of its stars.
Konrath Moves 'Jack Daniels' Series to AmazonEncore

| 05/17/2010 @ 12:00AM

Amazon today announced that its publishing imprint, AmazonEncore, will release the newest book in J.A. Konrath's Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels series, Shaken. The Kindle version will go on sale in October, and the print version in February 2011. Hyperion had published the six previous books in Konrath's series about the Chicago cop, including Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, and Cherry Bomb.
Deals: Week of 5/17/10

BY Rachel Deahl (@DeahlsDeals) | 05/17/2010 @ 12:00AM
Deals: Week of 5/10/10

BY Rachel Deahl | 05/10/2010 @ 12:00AM
Deals: Week of 5/3/2010

by Rachel Deahl | 05/03/2010 @ 12:00AM
HMH Looks to Reinvigorate Philip K. Dick with New Book, Backlist Program

by Rachel Deahl | 04/29/2010 @ 12:00AM

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is investing in sci-fi icon Philip K. Dick. The publisher, which just bought North American rights to an unpublished two-volume collection of letters, journal entries, and other work by Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, has also acquired 39 of the author's backlist titles. The backlist books will be published by HMH's Mariner imprint, after the house releases The Exegesis in fall 2011.
Deals

by Rachel Deahl | 04/19/2010 @ 12:00AM

HC Kids' Gets 'Divergent' ; SMP Leads with Jensen; Rodale Gets 'Masterly' in the Kitchen; more.
Hyperion to Publish Jackie Kennedy Oral History Book

By Rachel Deahl | 04/13/2010 @ 02:21PM

Hyperion has signed a new book about Jackie Kennedy, collecting never-before-published interviews with the former first lady.
Deals

By Rachel Deahl | 04/12/2010 @ 12:00AM

Wolff Takes Bregman; Waxman sells Oher; Morrow Gets Shut-In; more.
Deals

by Rachel Deahl | 04/05/2010 @ 12:00AM

Touchstone nabs Guns N' Roses memoir; Walker signs Joel Greenberg; Houghton Mifflin scores debut novelist Jennifer Miller; more.
Flat World Knowledge Reaches Out to College Bookstores

Calvin Reid | 04/01/2010 @ 12:00AM

Flat World Knowledge, an open source textbook publisher offering free online texts and for-pay supplements, is launching an initiative to attract college bookstores to its publishing program.
Deals

by Rachel Deahl | 03/29/2010 @ 12:00AM

The Force Is with Dutton; Two from Gernert; Cumming Sticks with SMP; more.
Little, Brown Attends
Monster High

By Karen Raugust | 03/18/2010 @ 07:33PM

Under license from Mattel, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will be publishing a new YA series, Monster High, written by Lisi Harrison, best known for the Clique and Alphas series. In the books, the sons and daughters of Frankenstein, The Mummy, and other famous movie monsters, disguised as humans, interact with the modern teenagers who are their fellow students. The concept was created in-house by Mattel, which sought out a publisher to help establish the brand and its storylines and characters.
Deals

by Rachel Deahl | 03/15/2010 @ 12:00AM

Razorbill pre-empts rights to Beth Revis debut; Cashore Reups at Dial; Hyperion wins Bob Friel's Colt; more
London Briefcase: What the Big Six Are Bringing to the Fair

By Rachel Deahl | 03/15/2010 @ 12:00AM

Glenn Beck rants about conspiracy theories (this time in fiction), Steve Martin explores the art world, Gary Shteyngart gets romantic, Jimmy Carter unlocks his diary, Laura Bush unlocks her life, and Drs. Oz and Roizen tackle parenting. These are just a few of the highlights you'll find among the books the “big six” are selling at the 2010 London Book Fair.
Dutton Children's Pre-Empts YA Debut for Six Figures

Rachel Deahl | 03/11/2010 @ 03:43PM

In a deal for six figures, Dutton Children's Books bought a debut YA novel by a young editor at another Penguin imprint.
Harper Buys Scott Brown Memoir

Rachel Deahl | 03/10/2010 @ 03:02PM

After word spread throughout the industry that a book proposal from newly elected Massachusetts senator Scott Brown was circulating, HarperCollins announced today Jonathan Burnham acquired a currently untitled memoir by the junior politician.
HMH Children's Buys Buzzed-About Anne Frank Novel

Rachel Deahl | 03/08/2010 @ 12:00AM

In another buzzed-about pre-Bologna acquisition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's bought U.S. and Canadian rights to a YA novel called Annexed that tells a famous Holocaust tale from the vantage point of an unexpected player.

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