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Deals: Week of 8/23/10
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Deals: Week of 8/16/10
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Putnam and Berkley Sign Two More From Cornwell
Crime writer Patricia Cornwell has sold two new novels featuring her character Kay Scarpetta to her longtime publishers, Putnam and Berkley. Putnam will publish the books in hardcover, and Berkley will do the paperbacks.
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Deals: Week of 8/9/10
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Beaufort Teams with 'American Spectator' for 'The Ruling Class'
Al Regnery has not been directly involved with book publishing for a number of years, but he is getting back into the business in a joint venture with Eric Kampmann, head of Midpoint Trade and Beaufort Books, to publish a book based on the cover story of the summer issue of The American Spectator for which Regnery is publisher. The 12,000-word article, "The Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution" by Angelo Codevilla, argues that the country is not divided along Democratic and Republican lines but by a class system in which a group of elites uses their power to promote their own agenda.
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Vince Flynn to Co-Write New Series with Brian Haig
Thriller writer Vince Flynn, author of Pursuit of Honor and other titles, has signed a two-book deal with Atria and Pocket, for a new series featuring a New York City anti-terror operation that Flynn will co-write with retired writer and U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Brian Haig. Flynn, whose latest novel, American Assassin, Atria will publish on October 12, said the series covers a story he has "wanted to tell for many years.... Teaming up with Brian Haig will afford me the opportunity to pursue this without keeping readers waiting for my next Mitch Rapp novel."
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Deals: Week of 8/2/10
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Deals: Week of 7/26/10
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Deals: Week of 7/19/10
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Deals: Week of 7/5/2010
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Ripken Steps to the (Children's Book) Plate
Disney Book Group has signed a deal with Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. for a middle-grade baseball series; Baltimore Sun, sportswriter Kevin Cowherd will coauthor. The retired Baltimore Oriole's first book, Hothead, about a third baseman with a problematic temper, will be published by Disney-Hyperion in winter 2011, with additional books arriving yearly. Disney-Hyperion editorial director Stephanie Owens Lurie did the deal for world rights with Ian Kleinert of Objective Entertainment.
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Macmillan Signs Rob Lowe Memoir
Macmillan is just now announcing an acquisition it made in the fall of 2009, when Steve Rubin, president and publisher of Henry Holt, bought Rob Lowe's memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends. The publisher said the manuscript came in as a "confidential submission" because Lowe is writing the book himself and all parties wanted to keep the work under wraps until the first chapters had come together. The title is now slated for May 2011, with Holt's Gillian Blake editing.
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Deals: Week of 6/28/10
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June 24: Rights Report
This week, Alvina Ling at Little, Brown buys the new YA novel from Laini Taylor,
Virginia Duncan at Greenwillow Books gets North American rights to Counting Cars by Christina Meredith, Jocelyn Davies at Razorbill acquires Crush Control, a new novel by Jennifer Jabaley, and Jon Anderson of Simon & Schuster has bought A ValueTales Treasury: Stories for Growing Good People by Spencer Johnson, M.D. -
Sterling, Hearst Renew Agreement
Hearst Magazines and Sterling Publishing have renewed their long-term trademark licensing agreement granting Sterling the rights to create and publish books under the Hearst Books imprint with Hearst Magazines' trademarks worldwide. Under the deal, Sterling has produced a number of lifestyle and cookbooks based on Hearst's magazines.
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Deals: Week of 6/21/10
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HC Acquires Brit's Debut for Rumored Seven Figures
A heated auction in the UK for two books by Brit Steven J. Watson, including his debut Before I Go to Sleep, has led to a major pre-empt in the States by HarperCollins. Claire Wachtel and Jonathan Burnham have paid a rumored $1 million for Sleep, along with another book by Watson, Nine Lives.
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Deals: Week of 6/14/10
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Colfer Pens First Adult Novel
Jane Morpeth and Marion Donaldson at Headline in London, and Peter Mayer at Overlook Press in New York, have bought Eoin Colfer's first independent adult novel, in deals negotiated by Sophie Hicks at Ed Victor Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Plugged is set in New Jersey and is a classic noir novel which will be published in 2011.
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