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The L.A. Times Festival of Books: Highlights
A recap of the L.A. Times Festival of Books where Jane Smiley and Ray Bradbury appeared.
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'The Hypnotist' Becomes One of the Fair's Big Books
While London saw a number of big book deals, one of the biggest involved the thriller, The Hypnotist. The title, which has yet to sell in the U.S., was at the center of a heated auction in the U.K. involving some of the country's leading crime publishers.
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Weisbach Makes First Sale
Rob Weisbach has sold a memoir to Jonathan Burnham and Gail Winston at Harper, his first deal since setting up his own firm.
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Hudson Street Press Signs Weil to Book on Healthcare
Penguin's Hudson Street Press imprint has acquired a new title from bestseller, and health guru, Dr. Andrew Weil.
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Random to Release Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol' in September
After a long wait, Random House announced that Dan Brown's new novel, The Lost Symbol, will be released September 15. The company is setting a 5-million copy first printing to the follow-up to the Da Vinci Code, the highest in RH history.
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HC's Prince Charles Deal Tops Pre-London Sales
HarperCollins signed a two-book deal with Prince Charles, just one of a number of book sales made as the London Book Fair begins.
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Internet Archive Latest to Object to Google Settlement
The Internet Archive has sent a letter to the judge overseeing the Google settlement requesting permission to file a motion that would address the question of orphan works and look for other companies to be granted to same protection from liability that Google will receive if the settlement is approved.
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Penguin India Spends Record Amount on Debut Novel
British literary agency David Godwin Associates Ltd. has sold Tiger Hills, a novel by Sarita Mandanna, to Penguin India for the largest advance the house has ever paid for a debut. Sophie Hoult of DGA did not give an exact amount but said the deal was seven figures.
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Harlequin Lands Reno Title
Health and fitness guru Tosca Reno's next book will be published by Harlequin as part of the publisher's growing nonfiction list.
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Hyperion Signs Breslin for Blagojevich Book
Hyperion editor-in-chief Will Balliett has signed a new book by Jimmy Breslin about the scandal surrounding Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
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Andrews McMeel Signs Deal with Bon Appétit
Andrews McMeel Publishing has signed a cookbook deal with Bon Appétit magazine. The house will release The Bon Appétit Desserts Cookbook in fall 2010. Bon Appétit has previously published books with Wiley; the most recent one, Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh, won a 2008 IACP award.
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The Return of ‘Blueberries for Sal’
Robert McCloskey’s Caldecott Honor picture book, Blueberries for Sal, hasn’t been available to order for the past year. However, following several years of negotiation between Penguin and McCloskey’s estate, that situation is about to change. Finally, last Thursday, an agreement was reached between Viking and the McCloskey estate for the entire body of McCloskey’s work.
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Book Deals: Week of 4/6/2009
Norton Signs Schoenfeld, Woof Maria Guarnaschelli at Norton bought North American rights to Gabe Schoenfeld’s Necessary Secrets via Chris Calhoun at Sterling Lord. Schoenfeld, formerly a senior editor at Commentary magazine and author of the essay “Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act?” will offer a historically informed analysis of America’s tolerance for l...
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Book Deals: Week of 3/23/09
Putnam Preempts Farnsworth’s Vampires Rachel Kahan at Putnam preempted Christopher Farnsworth’s debut, Blood Oath, and two subsequent novels, via Alexandra Machinist at Linda Chester, who made the major six-figure world rights deal amid multiple initial offers. The series of books centers on a vampire sworn to protect the U.
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Book Deals: Week of 3/16/09
Two for Castillo and Colchie Johanna Castillo at Atria won an auction for Felix J. Palma's The Map of Time via Thomas Colchie, who sold North American rights for six figures (in collaboration with Palma's principal agent, Antonia Kerrigan, on behalf of Algaida in Spain). Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, Palma's English-language debut features three intertwined plots, i...
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Book Deals: McCall Smith to Pantheon; Niffenegger to Scribner
Alexander McCall Smith has signed a new deal with Edward Kastenmeier at Pantheon for three more books in his The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, as well as the first volume in a new series entitled Courduroy Mansions and a standalone called La's Orchestra Saves the World. Audrey Niffenegger’s second novel sold to Scribner, Her Fearful Symmetry, for a figure reported to be just shy of $5 million.
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Death and 'Dirty Dancing'
Former PW editor Emily Chenoweth interweaves the story of a daughter's sexual awakening with her mother's terminal illness, culminating in a bittersweet anniversary party, in her debut, Hello Goodbye.
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The Monkey God's Hands
Cheeni Rao is an award-winning fiction writer and graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop. Rao's memoir, In Hanuman's Hands (Reviews, Jan. 19), is a visionary journey from rock bottom to recovery, telling how a drug and alcohol addiction opened his eyes to the divine and, in particular, forged for him a relationship with Hanuman, the monkey god of the Hindu epic the Ramayana.
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Book Deals: Week 3/9/09
SMP Wins Tibetan Saga St. Martin's Press editor Lindsay Sagnette prevailed in a weeklong, multipublisher auction for Freedom Deep in My Heart by Tibetan activist and actress Yangzom Brauen, her mother, Sonam Dolma, and her grandmother Kunsang Wangmo. The memoir portrays three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending ...
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Deals: Week of 3/2/2009
Scribner Wins Vanderbes Alexis Gargagliano won an auction for two new novels by Jennifer Vanderbes in a mid-six-figure deal with Dorian Karchmar at William Morris. The first in the deal, Trespasses, explores how the forces of history and culture invisibly encroach on three generations of an American family, culminating in a horrific crime committed on Thanksgiving day.
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