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Deals: 7/20/2009
Graphic Sex Scott Mendel, of Mendel Media Group, looks to have sold a first-of-its-kind how-to graphic nonfiction, a guide to sex by Kidder Kaper called Sex Is Fun. Brianne Mulligan at Gotham Avery nabbed world rights. Kaper, who lives in the Twin Cities, has established himself as an unlikely 21st-century sex guru with the podcast he launched in 2005, “Sex Is Fun.
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HarperCollins and Jim Henson Partner on Sid the Science Kid Series
HarperCollins Children’s Books and the Jim Henson Company are launching a publishing program for Sid the Science Kid, based on the Emmy-nominated animated TV series that began airing on PBS Kids last fall. The books will feature full-color stills from the series and will launch in December 2009, with three titles targeting preschoolers ages three to six.
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Quirk Announces Follow-Up to 'P&P&Z'
Quirk Books has announced Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters as the next entry in its Quirk Classics series, to be published on September 15.
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Free Press Acquires Posthumous Carlin Memoir
Simon & Schuster's Free Press imprint has acquired George Carlin's memoir, Last Words. Carlin, who died in June 2008, had been working on the book, with writer Tony Hendra, for the last decade.
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No Advance, Author Turns To Fund-raising
When Deanna Zandt signed her contract with Barrett-Koehler to publish her first book, Sink or Swim: Making Waves of Change in a New Social Media World next April, she knew the house did not give advances, relying instead on a more author-friendly royalty structure. To help fund her research and give herself the opportunity to devote full-time to writing, Zandt, a media and technology consultant...
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Deals: 7/13/2009
Riverhead executive editor Sean McDonald acquired North American rights, at auction, to journalist Joshuah Bearman's memoir, St. Croix. More...
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Random House Unveils 'Lost Symbol' Jacket
Biding its time to the big September 15 publication of Dan Brown's long-awaited follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, Random House is slowly releasing tidbits about the heavily guarded book. Today it unveiled the new jacket for the book, along with scant plot details.
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Sentinel Kills Sanford Book
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, whose extramarital affair, after becoming front page news, has threatened his political career (and his marriage), has also now lost his book deal.
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The Monster Mash
Little did Quirk Books know when it published Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith in April that the book would spawn a cottage industry.
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Salinger Wins as Judge Blocks Publication of 60 Years Later
Finding that author J.D. Salinger is “likely to succeed on the merits of its copyright case," a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction barring the publication of what Salinger’s attorneys called an unauthorized sequel to The Catcher in the Rye.
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The Secrets Behind the Secrets Series
When Dan Burstein read The Da Vinci Code in 2003, he was so excited by the book and the myriad historical ephemera it explored that he rushed to his local Barnes & Noble to find out what was true and what wasn't in Dan Brown's book. The search led Burstein on something of an intellectual wild goose chase—he wound up with more than 200 titles on subjects referenced in what became one o...
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Deals
A SEAL, Revealed Bruce Nichols at HarperCollins has nabbed world English rights to Eric Greitens’s memoir, Carry You Home: The Making of a Navy SEAL and the Education of a Humanitarian. Greitens, a Rhodes scholar turned Navy SEAL who fought in Afghanistan and did aid work with Mother Teresa’s Home for the Destitute and Dying, tracks his war-time experiences—among other things ...
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Gotham Buys Achatz Memoir
Gotham Books has acquired rights to chef Grant Achatz’s memoir, Life, On the Line. The deal was for North American rights and was brokered by Pilar Queen and David McCormick of McCormick & Williams. Rachel Holtzman will edit.
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DK Plans Out-of-This-World LEGO Star Wars Event
DK Publishing, along with Lucasfilm and LEGO, is planning a one-day in-store launch event for its October release LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary by Simon Beecroft. The book is based on LEGO’s 10-year-old line of toys tied to George Lucas’s Star Wars saga; DK is offering participating stores an activity kit with game and trivia contests; giveaways and raffle prizes; and appearances from members of a volunteer group of Star Wars costume enthusiasts.
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Deals
Maddy & Me Pitched as The Last Lecture meets Marley & Me, Matt Logelin's Adventures with Maddy: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Extraordinary Community That Healed Us, went at auction to Amanda Englander at Grand Central. Rachel Sussman and Eve Bridburg of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth brokered the deal for North American rights.
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HC Children's Inks Series Deal with Grogan
HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired world rights to 13 children’s books featuring the Labrador John Grogan wrote about in his bestselling memoir, Marley & Me.
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Rowman and Littlefield Acquires Aussie Bestseller
Rowman and Littlefield Publishing has acquired North American rights to In Heaven and Earth: Global Warming: The Missing Science, by leading Australian geologist Ian Plimer. In the book, Plimer makes the scientifically controversial argument that carbon dioxide has an insignificant role in affecting climate.
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Hyperion Wins Auction for Captain Phillips Book
After stories surfaced on Friday reporting rumors that Captain Richard Phillips' memoir was sold to Hyperion, PW has confirmed that the publisher did win the auction for an as-yet-untitled book from the former head of the Maersk Alabama.
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Deals
YA Doubles for Brown Agency Liz Szabla at Feiwel and Friends paid six figures for two books from Andrew Smith. Szabla acquired world rights to Winger and The Marbury Lens, which are respectively slated for fall 2010 and fall 2011. Smith, who won ALA Best Books for Young Adults for his September 2008 novel, Ghost Medicine (also published by F&F), follows a boy at prep school, struggling with...
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Connelly Stays with Little, Brown
Michael Connelly has re-signed with Little, Brown in a new five-book deal.
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