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David Sedaris Becomes Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris's sixth collection of essays has undergown a third title change before it's June 3, 2008 one-day laydown. The newly titled When You Are Engulfed in Flames has an announced first printing of 650,000.
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Twelve Rushing Paperback of McCain's 'Hard Call'
After releasing John McCain's Hard Call in hardcover on August 2007, when the politician's run for the White House was crumbling, Twelve is hoping to have a second crack at the proverbial sales apple with a rushed paparback edition of the title slated for a February 29 release.
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Not a Moment Too Earley
Four years after being prematurely tapped for Granta's Best of the Young American Novelists club, Tony Earley finally released his debut novel, Jim the Boy (2000), a Depression-era pastoral about a 10-year-old and his North Carolina family. Eight years on, Little, Brown is releasing the sequel, The Blue Star (Reviews, Dec.
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Hoop Dreams
Hoop Dreams Mark Tavani at Random won an auction for George Dohrmann's Take Their Hearts Out via Andrew Blauner, who sold world rights. The Sports Illustrated writer, who won the Pulitzer in 2000 at the age of 27, will draw on eight years of reporting to immerse readers in the world of grassroots basketball.
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Simon Spotlight to Publish Jose Canseco's Vindicated
After Berkley/Penguin passed last week on Vindicated, Jose Canseco's follow-up to his memoir Juiced, Simon Spotlight has announced it will publish the book, in which Canseco vows to “save the game I love.”
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Gross Scores Six-Book Global Contract with Morrow
Andrew Gross, whose first solo novel The Blue Zone was a New York Times bestseller for William Morrow last spring, has signed with the house for six new books, with HarperCollins to publish in the U.K. The deal marks the first in a new global fiction branding and publishing strategy for Morrow.
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Three More from Thor
Bestselling author Brad Thor has signed a new three-book deal with Atria.
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New Deal for Chase Lapine
New York Times bestselling author of The Sneaky Chef Missy Chase Lapinehas just inked a deal with Running Press for a third Sneaky Chef volume.
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Knopf Announces Title, New Pub Date for Paolini’s Latest
Knopf Books for Young Readers has revealed the name and cover of the third title in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance series. The book, Brisingr, will have a first printing of 2.5 million, the largest initial print run to date for the Random House Children’s Books division.
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Wolcott to Doubleday
Wolcott to Doubleday Gerald Howard at Doubleday acquired North American rights to two new books by James Wolcott via Elyse Cheney. The first is an as-yet untitled memoir of downtown New York in the '70s, when in 1972 Wolcott, at Norman Mailer's suggestion, left Maryland to take a job at the Village Voice as a classified ad taker and eventually became the paper's television and music critic.
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Robbins to Ecco
Robbins to Ecco David Hirshey at Harper, along with Dan Halpern at Ecco, has preempted world rights to a new novel by Tom Robbins, to be published by Ecco in fall 2008; Hirshey will edit. Robbins’s first novel in five years—and his first in 30 years not published by Bantam—is called B Is for Beer; Hirshey describes it as a hallucinogenic hymn to beer, children and the mystery ...
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Little, Brown To Release New Tom Wolfe
Little, Brown has acquired a new novel from Tom Wolfe. Back to Blood, the author's first work of fiction since his 2004 book, I Am Charlotte Simmons, published by Wolfe's longtime house FSG, will be set in Miami and deal with recurring themes for the author such as class and race.
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Sports Stories
Sports Stories Daniel Halpern at Ecco won an auction for S. L. Price’s Heart of the Game, acquiring world rights from Andrew Blauner. Expanded from a September Sports Illustrated article, the book will tell the story of 35-year-old Mike Coolbaugh, a 17-year veteran of minor league baseball who died instantly after being struck by a foul ball.
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Scholastic Signs Riordan for Multiplatform Series
Scholastic has signed Rick Riordan, author of the bestselling Percy Jackson series, for an ambitious multiplatform middle-grade adventure series that debuts next September.
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Rove Auction Over
The hotly contested auction for a book by former White House insider Karl Rove has been concluded, and a decision could come within a few days.
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Crown Preempts Debut Compared to Larson
Crown has signed a high six-figure deal with screenwriter David Jaher, whose narrative style is being compared to bestselling Crown author Erik Larson. The Witch of Lime Street is set to be published in early 2010.
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Two Wins for Avery
Two Wins for Avery Jeff Galas at Avery won an auction for New York Times and BusinessWeek journalist Andrew Park's memoir Unchurched via agent Faye Bender, who sold world rights. As someone raised without a religious tradition, Park will recount his struggle to find a role, if any, for spirituality and faith in his life.
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Andersen Acquires Nylen for RH
Kurt Andersen, who took on an editor-at-large role at Random House in June, has acquired an untitled memoir by media entrepreneur Bob Nylen via David McCormick, who sold North American rights.
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Rove Closing in on Book Deal
A book deal is inching ever closer for former White House advisor Karl Rove; according to one insider with knowledge of negotiations, the decision is now down to two publishers.
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Riverhead Inks Mosley to Three Book Deal
Walter Mosley has signed with Riverhead for three new books; one a literary novel and two others that will launch a new mystery series.
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