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Garth Stein Moves to Simon & Schuster for Next Book by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Sep 29, 2009
Garth Stein, author of the bestselling The Art of Racing in the Rain, is leaving HarperCollins, the house that published Rain in 2008, for Simon & Schuster, which will release his next novel in summer 2011. The deal, for world English rights, was brokered by Jeff Kleinman of Folio Literary Management, in an exclusive submission to acquiring S&S executive editor Marysue Rucci. Speaking to the move, Kleinman said: “We’ve been thrilled with Harper, but Marysue and S&S were r... more »
Deals: 9/28/20009 by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Sep 28, 2009
Joan of Arc Revisited Eric Simonoff of William Morris Endeavor sold North American rights to Kimberly Cutter's debut, The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc, to Andrea Schulz at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The buzzed-about book, which follows the French peasant-turned-saint from her life as Jehanne of Lorraine through her time leading the French army, is, according to Simonoff, part historical fiction and part “meditation on proto-feminism, the power and burden of faith, and the exhilarating and ... more »
Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Briefcase 2009 by Rachel Deahl, Liz Thomson and Nicholas Clee
Sep 28, 2009
Ann Brasheres grows up, Bret Easton Ellis heads back to his L.A. roots, Julia Childs's grand-nephew talks H2O, Julie Powell hits the butcher block, Eoin Colfer does his best Douglas Adams impression and George Romero lays down the rules of zombie-dom—that and more in PW's roundup of the big books up for grabs at this year's fair. The American Houses HarperCollins Among the highlights from HC this year are titles from the Prince of Wales and Joe Hill. From the Harper imprint there's Laur... more »
Jimmy Carter Moves to FSG for White House Diaries by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Sep 25, 2009
Jimmy Carter has moved houses, signing to do his next book with FSG. (Carter's last book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, was published by Simon & Schuster in January.) John Sterling acquired world rights to the book--it's the former president's White House diaries--which FSG plans to publish in October 2010. Agent Lynn Nesbit brokered the deal and FSG described the book as a truncated version of the diary entries Carter made while he was Commander-in-Chief, from 1977 through 1981. The... more »
Ballantine Buys Sanford Memoir by Publishers Weekly
Sep 22, 2009
Ballantine Books has acquired what it is calling the “inspirational memoir” of Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina’s embattled governor Mark Sanford. Joy Tutela at the David Black Literary Agency made the North American rights deal with Ballantine executive editor Marnie Cochran, who will edit the book. Ballantine, which will publish in May 2010, said Sanford’s story “will grapple with the universal issue of maintaining integrity and a sense of self during life&rs... more »
Deals: 9/21/2009 by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Sep 21, 2009
Tim Duggan, executive editor at HarperCollins, has signed Nigerian author E.C. Osondu to a two-book deal. Duggan took North American rights to a short story collection, called Voice of America, and a novel, called This House Is Not for Sale, by the Providence College professor who won the Caine Prize for African Writing and has a Syracuse University M.F.A. The short story collection follows a variety of characters moving between Nigeria and the U.S., and Duggan described the novel as &l... more »
Deals: 9/14/2009 by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Sep 14, 2009
True Nonbelievers Radio host Michael Krasny's Spiritual Envy: A Meditation on Agnosticism was nabbed by Georgia Hughes at New World Library last week. Amy Rennert struck the deal, for world rights, and NWL plans to pub in fall 2010. Krasny, who hosts the news and politics show Forum on KQED in San Francisco, will explore questions of faith and faithlessness in the book. According to Rennert, Envy will be “for seekers and for those who, like Krasny, have wrestled with... more »
Agencies Deepen Commitment to Publicity by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Sep 14, 2009
In an era when cutbacks have driven publishers to shrink already small publicity and marketing teams, a handful of literary agencies have hired full-time staffers to work on what was traditionally publisher-only domain. What's striking about the agencies that are hiring in-house publicists is that many are small, boutique firms. Joe Regal's Regal Literary has five full-time agents and last year hired Michael Strong to oversee small-budget Internet campaigns. Strong, a career-changer with experie... more »
Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Survey Examines New Business Models by Publishers Weekly
Sep 10, 2009
The Frankfurt Book Fair is conducting a survey of what the world’s publishers believe will be the business models of the future. The brief survey asks industry members what they think the main sources of revenue will be in the digital world. Results will be published in an upcoming issue of PW as well as in the October issue of the Frankfurt Book Fair newsletter. To take the survey, click here. ... more »
Patterson Signs 17-Book Deal with Hachette by Publishers Weekly
Sep 08, 2009
While sales of titles by some brand name authors have slowed in recent years, that hasn’t been the case with James Patterson and the prolific author has just inked a new 17-book deal that will keep him with publisher Hachette through 2012. The deal includes 11 adult titles, to be published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company and in paperback by Grand Central Publishing, and six titles for young readers, to be published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The contract includes n... more »
Deals: 9/7/2009 by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Sep 07, 2009
Civil Rights, Graphically Mark Siegel at First Second took world rights to a coming-of-age graphic novel called The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long and Jim Demonakos, with illustrations by Nate Powell. Agent Judy Hansen brokered the deal, and the book, set in 1967 Houston against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, is, she says, in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird; in the novel, based on an actual event, a white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood crosses the color bar... more »
Deals: 8/31/2009 by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Aug 31, 2009
Mother and Child Reunion In a unique deal inspired by the father-son addiction memoirs separately written (and published) by Nic Sheff (Beautiful Boy) and his son David (Tweak), Adam Chromy of Artists and Artisans closed a two-book deal with HarperCollins's It Books imprint for a mother-son perspective on addiction, selling a pair of memoirs by Steven Adler and his mother, Deanna Adler. Adler, the former drummer for Guns N' Roses who has made headlines more recently for his often jarringly unsuc... more »
Writer Beware Busier than Ever by Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly
Aug 25, 2009
In 1998, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America founded Writer Beware, a program aimed at exposing scams, educating writers and maintaining a database of questionable literary agents, publishers, editorial services and literary contests. With the Internet making it easier than ever for publishing con artists to operate, Writer Beware has never been busier. The organization has played a part in getting fee-charging literary agents arrested, breach-of-contract judgments entered against... more »
Deals: 8/24/2009 by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Aug 24, 2009
Krieger Re-Ups with Wiley Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich has closed on an offer from John Wiley & Sons for the newest cookbook by Ellie Krieger. Justin Schwartz took world rights to Comfort Foods Made Light, and Wiley plans to pub in fall 2011. The deal with Krieger, who hosts the Food Network show Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger and has published previous cookbooks with Clarkson Potter and Taunton Press, marks a second effort with Wiley, which will release So Easy: Healthy Recipes... more »
The Price War for 'The Lost Symbol' by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Aug 24, 2009
Last week Amazon announced, to little surprise, that it would be selling the Kindle edition of Dan Brown's forthcoming (and presumed megaselling) The Lost Symbol for $9.99. (Random House's North American print run is five million, and the house is doing another 1.5 million for the U.K., South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.) That $9.99 price is a 67% discount off of Random House's $29.95 cover price. (The title is, by the way, Amazon's current bestseller and has been, according to the e-taile... more »
Guild Responds to Second WME Letter on Google Settlement by By Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Aug 18, 2009
After the William Morris Endeavor agency issued a letter to clients last week advising them to opt out of the Google settlement, the agency has issued a second letter reasserting its position and detailing it further. In the newest letter, WME states that the Authors Guild, in defending the settlement (which it helped to iron out), fails to "adequately address" the issue that writers, by remaining in, "waive, again for the term of copyright, their right to have Google remove their... more »
Deals: 8/17/2009 by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly
Aug 17, 2009
Gotham Buys a 'Hug' Gotham's William Shinker acquired world rights to a new book by Hug Your Customers and Hug Your People author Jack Mitchell. Mitchell, CEO and chairman of Mitchells/Richards/Marshs, with two popular clothing stores, Mitchells and Richards, in Westport and Greenwich, Conn., delivered his message about succeeding in business through above-and-beyond customer service in the previous Hug titles, both published by Hyperion. Those books, per Gotham, have sold, combined, more than 2... more »
Authors Guild Claims William Morris 'Off Target' On Google Settlement by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly, 8/10/2009 2:33:00 PM
Aug 10, 2009
After the New York Times reported that the William Morris Endeavor agency would be officially advising clients to opt out of the Google settlement, the Authors Guild issued a statement of its own Monday afternoon claiming the agency was off base in its assessment and recommendation. In an open memo to agents and authors, the Guild, one of the main plaintiffs in the case brought against Google over copyright issues associated with Google's Book Search program, said WME's advice to clients "c... more »
Deals: 8/10/2009 by Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly, 8/10/2009
Aug 10, 2009
Dutton Kids Signs Brewer to Five Michael Bourret at Dystel and Goderich has inked a five-book deal for Heather Brewer with Dutton Children's Books for a spinoff to her YA vampire series, the Chronicles of Vladimir Rod. The new series, the Slayer Journals, starts the summer before Eighth Grade Bites (book 1 in the Chronicles of Vladimir Rod) and follows the character Joss, one of Val's friends. Joss watched his sister get killed by vampires and decides to become a vampire slayer. Dutton bought... more »
'Dewey' Author Gets Million-Dollar Deal at Dutton by Rachel Deahl
Aug 04, 2009
Peter McGuigan at Foundry sold a new book by Dewey author Vicki Myron to Dutton in a deal that's rumored to be in the seven figures. Myron, a Midwest librarian who shot to the top of the bestseller lists with her 2008 book about caring for a cat she discovered in her Iowa branch, was at Hachette, which published the hardcover edition of Dewey in September 2008 and also has paperback rights. (Since the book hit, Hachette has acquired two picture books about Dewey from McGuigan—the first, De... more »
Deals: 8/3/2009 by Rachel Deahl
Aug 03, 2009
Norton's New Limerick Former MacArthur “genius” winner and UC Boulder professor Patricia Limerick has sold her new work, Exploring the Interior, to Norton's Ed Barber. Barber acquired North American rights from Scott Moyers at the Wylie Agency. Limerick, who's best known for her 1987 book, The Legacy of Conquest (about the settling of the American west), here chronicles the U.S. government's “vexed” management of public land, Moyers said. She tracks the establishment o... more »
Former Firebrand Agents Hangs New Shingle by Rachel Deahl
Jul 31, 2009
Michael Stearns, a former editor at HarperCollins Children's Books who recently left his agent position at Firebrand Literary, is starting a new endeavor called Upstart Crow Literary. Chris Richman and Danielle Chiotti, who worked with Stearns at Firebrand, are joining him in the new venture. (The company's new Web site, www.upstartcrowliterary.com, has just gone live.) Upstart Crow started taking submissions this week, and the three agents are bringing all their clients to the new ventur... more »
Deals: 7/27/09 by Rachel Deahl
Jul 27, 2009
Clock Watchers Deb Futter at Grand Central acquired U.S. rights to Lucy Kellaway's In Office Hours. In the novel Kellaway, a columnist for the Financial Times, follows two professional women who concurrently fall for the wrong guys—both of whom are office mates. Grand Central compared the novel to Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, saying Kellaway “does for office life what Pearson did for domestic life.” Clare Alexander of Aitken Alexander brokered the deal, an... more »
Bestselling Author E. Lynn Harris Dies by Lynn Andriani
Jul 24, 2009
Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris died earlier today while on a book tour in Los Angeles promoting his 11th novel, Basketball Jones. He was 54. Stuart Applebaum of Random House said that to his knowledge, the cause of Harris's death is unknown. Essence.com reported that Harris’s personal assistant confirmed that Harris's health had recently declined. Harris, who was published by Random House’s Anchor, Bantam and Doubleday imprints, was known for writing about gay, black culture. He w... more »
Regnery Inks Deal With Carrie Prejean
Jul 20, 2009
Former Miss California Carrie Prejean has signed to do a book for conservative publisher Regnery called Still Standing. The title is scheduled for November 2009. The 22-year-old sparked controversy after answering a question about same sex marriage at the Miss USA Pageant by saying she believed legal unions should be between a man and a woman. The comment, according to Prejean, resulted in her being stripped of her beauty pageant title. Her book, Regnery said, will be about her facing the ... more »
Deals: 7/20/2009 by Rachel Deahl
Jul 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.” The downloadable audio snippets have reached millions of listeners and led to the establishment of a small media emp... more »
Quirk Announces Follow-Up to 'P&P&Z' by Rachel Deahl
Jul 15, 2009
After the overwhelming success of its campy Jane Austen mashup, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it was clear that Quirk Books needed to give readers more of what they wanted. With that in mind, the Philadelphia-based house has announced Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters as the next entry in its Quirk Classics series, to be published on September 15. The idea to blend aquatic baddies with Austen’s romance seemed, according to editor Jason Rekulak, an ideal way to refresh the mashup cr... more »
Free Press Acquires Posthumous Carlin Memoir by Rachel Deahl
Jul 14, 2009
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. Hendra, a founding editor of National Lampoon magazine and author of his own memoir, Father Joe, got permission to publish the book from Carlin's family. Unlike Carlin's three previous comedy titles--When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, Brain Droppings, and Napalm and Silly Putty--Last Words will f... more »
No Advance, Author Turns To Fund-raising by Wendy Werris
Jul 13, 2009
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, reached out for financial assistance and sent a fund-raising letter to 500 potential backers. The app... more »
Deals: 7/13/2009 by Rachel Deahl
Jul 13, 2009
Family Ties Riverhead executive editor Sean McDonald acquired North American rights, at auction, to journalist Joshuah Bearman's memoir, St. Croix. Bearman, who's written for Rolling Stone and Harper's among other publications, chronicles his complex and bizarre experience getting to know (and taking care of) his estranged mother and younger brother at the age of 32. Having grown up in California with his father, Bearman was, until his grandparents' death, unaware of his other family members'... more »
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