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HM Sets September Pub for New Roth
Houghton Mifflin has announced that Philip Roth's new novel, Indignation, will be released in September.
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Dutton Wins Recall
Dutton Wins Recall Dutton executive editor Stephen Morrow won world English rights to Total Recall: The Astonishing, Imminent and Inevitable Ability to Remember Your Entire Life by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell; James Levine at Levine Greenberg took the project to auction after receiving three preempt offers.
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Skyhorse Is Set to Ride Jesse Ventura to Fame and Fortune
Year-old publisher is still establishing itself, but finds its first big author in former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura
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'Miss Pettigrew' a Hit for London's Persephone Books
There is no “official” movie tie-in edition of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. However, a small English publishing house, Persephone Books, which re-releases forgotten classics by 20th-century (mostly) women writers and has two stores in London, has sold 23,000 copies of its version of Winifred Watson’s novel. It’s the biggest seller in Persephone’s nine-year history.
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Archipelago Wins Miriam Bass; AAP Indie Meeting Set
The Brooklyn-based not-for-profit literary press, Archipelago Books, has been awarded this year's Miriam Bass prize. The AAP has also announced the speaker line-up for its annual small and independent annual meeting program.
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Danielle Steel to Do Children's Book for HC
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to new children's picture book by Danielle Steel, The Happiest Hippo in the World.
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Rose Goes to Morrow
Rose Goes to Morrow Morrow executive editor Henry Ferris prevailed over three other bidders for a new book by Daniel Asa Rose called Larry’s Kidney: (Being the Story of) How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail Order Bride, Breaking Chinese Law to Get Him a Transplant—and Save His Life.
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Levy on Google
Levy on Google S&S publisher David Rosenthal has acquired a new book by Steven Levy titled Searching for Google; Flip Brophy at Sterling Lord sold world rights, and senior editor Bob Bender will edit. Levy, chief technology writer at Newsweek, will tell how Google manages to realize its ambitions and how it generates new ideas and maintains a startup mentality in the face of explosive growt...
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Levy on Google
Levy on Google S&S publisher David Rosenthal has acquired a new book by Steven Levy titled Searching for Google; Flip Brophy at Sterling Lord sold world rights, and senior editor Bob Bender will edit. Levy, chief technology writer at Newsweek, will tell how Google manages to realize its ambitions and how it generates new ideas and maintains a startup mentality in the face of explosive growt...
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Debut Preempts
Debut Preempts Ellen Archer and Pamela Dorman at Voice preempted Cathy Marie Buchanan’s The Day the Falls Stood Still via Dorian Karchmar at William Morris, who sold North American rights. Set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, during WWI, this first novel focuses on a privileged young girl who suffers a tragedy that leaves her sister dead and her family disgraced, and a handsome, working-class ...
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Tuttle to Publish U.S. Edition of Murdoch Tell-All
The Far Eastern Economic Review, which Rupert Murdoch recently acquired, killed a review of the Viking Australia book Rupert's Adventures in China due to the book’s unfavorable look at Murdoch. With the book set for U.S. release this summer, it’s unclear how the media will handle it.
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Race, Adversity and Triumph
Race, Adversity and Triumph Chris Jackson at Spiegel & Grau beat five other houses in an auction for Wes Moore's Elevate; Linda Loewenthal at the David Black Agency sold world rights. The book will recount the author's triumph over a troubled adolescence to become a Rhodes Scholar, a White House Fellow and an investment banker by the age of 29, and will also follow the parallel life of anot...
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Deen in New Deal with Simon & Schuster
Bestselling author Paula Deen has inked at new multiple-book deal with Simon & Schuster, her publisher since 2002. In addition to cookbooks, the Food Network star will do a book on style and and children's cookbook.
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Yates to Direct 'Hallows'?
Though it has not yet been confirmed by Warner Bros., David Yates, who is currently directing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in London, may have nabbed the same job for the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final Potter film.
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Norton Wins New Rosenberg
Norton Wins New Rosenberg Bob Weil at Norton beat out six other houses in an auction for Tina Rosenberg's The Social Cure: Cracking the World's Toughest Problems Through the Power of the Group; Gail Ross sold North American rights. The book will look at intractable social problems, both global and domestic, that appear to have no solutions, providing inspirational cases in which peer pressure h...
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Kensington Acquires Holloway House Backlist
Kensington Publishing has acquired most of the publishing assets of Holloway House Publishing in Los Angeles, the original publisher of such classic black crime writers as Donald Goines, adding an historic trove of gritty African American popular literature to its publishing program.
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Hyperion Auctions
Hyperion Auctions Ellen Archer and Pamela Dorman at Voice won an auction for a debut novel titled The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe; Suzanne Gluck sold North American rights in this seven-figure, two-book deal. The debut, which begins with a Harvard graduate student cleaning out an old Marblehead family home and finding a slip of paper that sets her on a reckoning with her ...
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Atria and CBS Films Bank on Flynn
Atria has re-signed author Vince Flynn, inking him to a four-book deal, while corporate sister CBS Films has optioned the rights to the author's Mitch Rapp character for a potential film franchise.
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One Author, Two Deals
One Author, Two Deals In early January, Washington and Lee English professor Laura Brodie sold her first novel, The Widow’s Season, to Jackie Cantor at Berkley via Gail Hochman, who sold world English. Brodie was also at work on a memoir, titled One Good Year, about homeschooling her eldest daughter for fifth grade while her other two daughters continued at the public school.
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S&S Wins New Fischer
Bob Bender at S&S beat out at least five other houses in an auction for U.S. rights to a new book by David Hackett Fischer, in a deal rumored to be worth $800,000. Scott Moyers at the Wylie Agency represented Fischer in negotiations.
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