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S&S Signs Cassandra Clare to Two More Books
Simon & Schuster has signed books five and six in Cassandra Clare's bestselling YA series, The Mortal Instruments. S&S says there are more than 3 million copies of the series' three published titles in print. Clare launched The Mortal Instruments in 2007, with City of Bones, about a teenage demon slayer; City of Ashes and City of Glass followed. Book four, City of Fallen Angels, is scheduled for April 2011.
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Baker & Taylor in Book Deal with Michaels
Baker & Taylor has signed an agreement with Michaels to handle the book program for the arts and crafts chain. The agreement is part of B&T's strategy to provide book services to retailers whose primary business is not books.
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Turner Publishing Buys Fieldstone Alliance Titles
Turner Publishing has acquired the publishing assets of Fieldstone Alliance, a Minnesota consulting and publishing firm aimed at the nonprofit market. The acquisition includes existing inventory, publishing agreements and related intellectual property for more than 50 business management titles geared towards helping nonprofit, community, funders, government and business leaders improve their communities. Its books have sold more than 250,000 copies.
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NEPA and Publish or Perish Merge
The literary agencies New England Publishing Associates and Publish or Perish have merged. NEPA founder Elizabeth Frost-Knappman, and her partner Edward Knappman, will work with Publish or Perish founder Roger S. Williams, who will be managing director of the new agency, which will now be based out of the Publish or Perish office near Princeton, NJ. Williams said he expects a smooth transition process, and has begun moving NEPA clients to the newly combined agency.
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Skyhorse Takes Arcade for $548,000
Skyhorse Publishing has emerged as the winner in lively auction for the assets of Arcade Publishing. Skyhorse had established itself as the stalking horse in the auction process earlier this summer with a bid of $318,000 and acquired the assets with a bid of $548,000. The purchase includes approximately 500 titles and gives the four-year-old Skyhorse a much deeper backlist.
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Can Any Author Be Worth $50 Million Today?
While hardcover sales are holding up so far this year, the uncertain future the format faces in light of the explosive growth of e-books has thrown a new element into the agent-publisher dance, especially on high long-term advance deals. That issue came to the fore when Deadline.com reported that Janet Evanovich's agent/son, Peter, was asking her longtime house, St. Martin's Press, for $50 million for a new four-book deal.
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IPG Partners with Edwards Brothers
Independent Publishers Group, under its digital division IPG Digital, has announced that it is partnering exclusively with Edwards Brothers for its print-on-demand services. According to IPG, the deal with Edwards will offer greater flexibility of printing very short runs while increasing availability of mid-list titles and backlist titles to its client publishers.
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Simon & Schuster Acquires Paperback Rights to Swedish Bestseller Camilla Lackberg
Pegasus Books has sold paperback rights to Swedish international bestseller Camilla Lackberg's first three books to Simon & Schuster. S&S's Free Press and Pocket Books imprints acquired trade paperback and mass market rights to The Ice Princess and Lackberg’s next two books. Pegasus published Princess in June.
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Phoenix Author Tries Self Publishing
While Dan Smetanka is taking some Phoenix authors to Counterpoint another Phoenix writer is turning to self publishing. With a push from pop-psychologist Phil McGraw, The Last Day of My Life author Jim Moret founded Incognito Books to keep the book, originally released in January, alive. The media savvy writer,chief correspondent for Inside Edition, a frequent guest host on Larry King Live, and a contributor to CNN, understands better than most the importance of taking advantage of a big break and that is why he chose to publish the book to have copies ready for the July 9 airing of a Dr. Phil show he taped right before Phoenix closed.
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Rights Report: July 15
There’s a prequel to the Mysterious Benedict Society series, Marc Brown will illustrate a picture book for Little, Brown, and Ghost Huntress has been optioned for the movies.
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Knopf to Publish Sotomayor Memoir
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has signed with Knopf to write a coming-of-age memoir. Sonny Mehta, Knopf chairman and editor-in-chief, acquired world rights, including pre- and post-publication serial rights, English-language and translation rights, and audio and electronic rights, from literary agent Peter W. Bernstein.
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SMP Signs Pat O'Brien Book
Marc Resnick, executive editor at St. Martin's Press, has acquired an autobiography by Pat O'Brien. Andrew Morton, known for penning bestselling celebrity tell-alls, is working with O'Brien on the book.
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Pat Tillman's Mother to Publish with Blurb
Yesterday Blurb announced it will publish the paperback edition of Mary Tillman's Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman on July 31. It is the first project for the San Francisco-based do-it-yourself publisher with a "name" author. Leigh Haber, who was Tillman's editor for the hardcover published by an imprint at Rodale Press in 2008, was brought in as Blurb's paid consultant to rework the paperback with Tillman and her co-writer Narda Zacchino.
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S&S's Howard Books Signs Dave Ramsey to Co-Pub Deal
Bestselling author and personal finance expert Dave Ramsey has signed a two-book, world rights co-publishing agreement with the Howard Books imprint of Simon & Schuster. Based on Ramsey's EntreLeadership principles, the first book will be published in fall 2011. The deal is similar to the profit-sharing/partnership deal signed by Stephen King.
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Orphaned Phoenix Titles Picked Up By Counterpoint
At least two of the books left in limbo after Phoenix Books abruptly closed now have a new home. Heidegger's Glasses and 51/50 have both been acquired by Counterpoint.
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IPG Buys European Art Book Distributor
Chicago Review Press, Inc., parent company of Independent Publishers Group, has acquired Art Stock Books, a distributor of fine art and architecture books based in Stuttgart, Germany. According to IPG president Mark Suchomel, ASB distributes titles from 30, mostly European publishers, encompassing between 600 to 700 titles. All books are in English or dual languages.
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FSG to Publish Collection of New Yorker's '20 Under 40'
The New Yorker's much-discussed roundup highlighting young authors to watch, called the "20 Under 40" issue, is headed for book form. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which happens to publish five of the 20 writers included on that list, will release the full collection of stories (and, in some cases, novel excerpts) The New Yorker is running by the elite young crew. Most of the pieces will be running in the magazine's double fiction issue, which hits stands on June 14, while a few will run in issues appearing later in the summer. FSG's trade paperback original, 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker, is scheduled to go on sale December 7.
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Midlist Author Tries Hybrid Self-Publishing
Bob Katz seems like an author who should have no trouble selling his sophomore novel, Third and Long. His debut, Hot Air (Birch Lane), about a charismatic Latin American leader, was optioned by MGM. In between, Katz wrote two educational books: The New Public School Parent (Penguin), with Bob Chase, which led him to the story of a teacher and fourth grade student with an inoperable tumor, Elaine's Circle: A Teacher, a Student, a Classroom and One Unforgettable Year (Marlowe/Da Capo). Five years later it continues to hover in the top 75 titles on special education on Amazon. But when Third and Long was turned down, Katz resorted to a hybrid self-publishing model to bring out the story of a former football star hired as a plant manager in a small town, who must save the community.
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Konrath Moves 'Jack Daniels' Series to AmazonEncore
Amazon today announced that its publishing imprint, AmazonEncore, will release the newest book in J.A. Konrath's Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels series, Shaken. The Kindle version will go on sale in October, and the print version in February 2011. Hyperion had published the six previous books in Konrath's series about the Chicago cop, including Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, and Cherry Bomb.
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