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Deals: 11/16/2009
Foundry, NAL, FSG, more.
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Little, Brown Inks Snicket Deal with Handler
Daniel Handler, who had a long and successful run with his Lemony Snicket-penned A Series of Unfortunate Events series at HarperCollins, is moving to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in a five-book deal. Under the agreement, Handler will write four Lemony Snicket titles in a new series, with the first due out in 2012. Before that series hits, LBYR will release a Handler young adult novel in 2011 that will feature full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman.
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Deals: 11/9/2009
Ryan and McNeil Team Up at Vertigo Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services sold a coming-of-age graphic novel called Bad Houses by artist Carla Speed McNeil and YA novelist Sara Ryan to Joan Hilty at DC’s Vertigo imprint. Hilty took world rights, and Mecoy brokered the deal with Ryan’s agent, Barry Goldblatt.
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Holt Wins Auction for New Elizabeth Kolbert Book
Henry Holt executive editor Gillian Blake has won a hotly contested auction for New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert's new book, The Sixth Extinction. Blake beat out eight other houses for the book, which will be expanded from the author's May 2009 New Yorker piece of the same name.
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Deals: 11/2/2009
Harper Teen, Ballantine, St. Martin's, Minotaur, more.
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Macmillan's Revised Contract Lowers Digital Royalties, Raises Direct to Consumer
A new Macmillan contract will change the way the publisher pays for digital sales as well as upping royalties for direct to consumer sales.
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Deals: 10/26/2009
Ecco gets Leonard Cohen bio, Grand Central nabs a Food Network personality, Hyperion closes on Willie Geist's second book, more.
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HarperOne Signs Psychic Sylvia Browne
HarperCollins's San Francisco-based imprint, HarperOne, has inked psychic (and bestseller) Sylvia Browne to a three-book deal.
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Simon & Schuster Signs Trilogy Adapted from iTunes App
Simon & Schuster's Atria Books imprint has struck a three-book deal with F.J. Lennon for a series based on his popular video game app, Soul Trapper.
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Deals: 10/19/2009
Simon & Schuster nabs Pamela Geller, Hacking Work goes to Portfolio, Naval Institute Press gets Russian sub documentary tie-in, and more.
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Bantam Signs Koontz for New Frankenstein Novels
Bantam has signed Dean Koontz for three new Frankenstein novels, which will be the first of the series—launched with two volumes in 2005—that will be published in hardcover. The first new volume, Lost Souls, will be published in May 2010 and begins a new story cycle that will continue with the two subsequent books, to be released in May 2011 and May 2012.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Writers House Announces Simultaneous Six-Country Release of Follett’s Next Novel
The first major deal out of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair involves an international laydown of Ken Follett’s next novel, Fall of Giants, which will be the first title in Follett’s New Century Trilogy. The simultaneous six-country release—set for September 28, 2010—will coincide with the airing of an eight-hour Pillars of the Earth TV miniseries next fall.
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Deals: 10/12/2009
John Glusman, Victoria Alexander, Peter McGuigan, MacAdam/Cage, more.
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Pre-Frankfurt Deals: Two Iowa Writers' M.F.A.s Go at Auction
Closing a five-way auction just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Brian DeFiore sold North American rights to 26-year-old Benjamin Hale's debut to Cary Goldstein at Twelve. Another Iowa graduate, Anna Keesey, just sold her debut novel, Little Century, at auction, to Courtney Hodell at FSG.
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Self-Published Guardsman Lands Deal with NAL
Capt. Benjamin Tupper, a member of the New York National Guard who blogged about his experiences overseas, has just closed a deal with NAL for his book, Welcome to Afghanistan, Send More Ammo, thanks to an inadvertent plug from Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.
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Deals: 10/5/2009
Putnam's Neil Nyren, Hyperion's Leslie Wells, St. Martin's Jennifer Enderlin, Gotham's Miriam Rich, Henry Holt's Gillian Blake, and more.
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Licensing Hotline: October 2009
David Biedrzycki's Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective is ready to generate buzz through a new representation deal between Charlesbridge and The ThinkTank Emporium, marking the first time Charlesbridge has signed with an outside agent to develop one of its book franchises. See more licensing stories, including news of Golden’s Iron Man: Armored Adventures titles, and Parragon teaming with MGA Entertainment on a new doll line for tween girls.
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Garth Stein Moves to Simon & Schuster for Next Book
Garth Stein, author of the bestselling The Art of Racing in the Rain, is leaving HarperCollins, which published Rain in 2008, for Simon & Schuster, which will publish his next novel in summer 2011.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Briefcase 2009
Ann Brasheres grows up, Bret Easton Ellis heads back to his L.A. roots, Julia Childs's grand-nephew talks H2O, Julie Powell hits the butcher block, Eoin Colfer does his best Douglas Adams impression and George Romero lays down the rules of zombie-dom—that and more in PW's roundup of the big books up for grabs at this year's fair.
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Deals: 9/28/20009
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