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Book Deals: Week of June 7, 2021
Graydon House bets on a debut; Berkley takes two Jane Austen updates; Luis Alberto Urrea re-ups at Little, Brown; and more.
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Doubleday to Publish Margaret Atwood Essay Collection
Doubleday will publish a new collection of Margaret Atwood's essays, 'Burning Questions: Essays 2004-2021,' on March 1, 2022. It has an announced 100,000-copy hardcover first printing.
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Book Deals: Week of May 31, 2021
Pulitzer-winning reporter Andrea Elliott sells her debut to Random House, Atria takes three from Armando Lucas Correa, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of May 24, 2021
Ballantine buys a family epic from Isabel Allende, Maitland Ward sells a memoir to Atria about her journey from Hollywood to the adult film industry, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of May 17, 2021
Molly Jong-Fast sells a book about the ’90s to One Signal, Jhumpa Lahiri takes on Ovid for Modern Library, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of May 10, 2021
Jeffery Deaver sells two thrillers to Putnam, Penguin buys a debut by the founder of the Brown Girl Therapy Instagram account, and more.
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Bloomsbury Acquires Two Book Projects by Alan Moore
Bloomsbury has acquired U.K. and North American rights to two book projects—a five-volume fantasy series and a short story collection—from the celebrated comics writer and novelist Alan Moore.
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Book Deals: Week of May 3, 2021
Karen M. McManus re-ups with Delacorte, Knopf buys Ayobami Adebayo’s sophomore effort, Random House takes on Bob Odenkirk’s memoir, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of April 26, 2021
Martha Wells sells six more to Tordotcom, Delacorte buys the first three in a planned YA series from Aimee Carter, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of April 19, 2021
Pamela Dorman buys a debut novel by a longtime Knopf editor, Holt signs a memoir by Ronnie Spector, Hanya Yanagihara re-ups with Doubleday, and more.
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Knopf's Jackson Sells Debut Novel for Rumored Seven Figures
In a deal rumored to be in the seven figure-range, Knopf editor Jenny Jackson sold 'Pineapple Street' to Pam Dorman, who has an eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House.
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Book Deals: Week of April 12, 2021
S&S buys Mike Pence’s autobiography, Elizabeth Strout sells a novel to Random House, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of April 5, 2021
William Morrow preempts a debut novel by Liz Stein, Michelle Tea sells a memoir about the reproductive industrial complex to Dey Street, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of March 29, 2021
Adrian McKintry inks seven-figure deal with LB, David Sheff to do Ono bio for S&S, Morrow takes Patricia Cornwell’s 'Autopsy,' and more.
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Book Deals: Week of March 22, 2021
HarperOne buys a book on racial equity from Ijeoma Oluo, Karen Joy Fowler sells a historical novel about John Wilkes Booth to
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Authors Guild, HMH Partner to Publish Benefit Collaborative Novel
The Authors Guild Foundation has reached a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to publish a collaborative novel edited by the acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood that will feature the writing of more than a dozen notable authors.
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Book Deals: Week of March 15, 2021
Disney-Hyperion buys the first two titles in a planned middle grade series by Leah Johnson, Flatiron goes big on a speculative fiction trilogy, Ace takes four from Kim Harrison, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of March 8, 2021
Ecco goes big on Shelby Van Pelt's 'Remarkably Bright Creatures,' Kal Penn sells a memoir to Gallery, Brittney Cooper sells seven for seven figures to Scholastic, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of March 1, 2021
Jennifer Grey sells a memoir to Ballantine, Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny team up for a thriller with S&S and St. Martin’s, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of February 22, 2021
Lois Lowry sells a new middle grade novel to HMH, Heather Morris sells the third installment of her 'Tattooist of Auschwitz' trilogy to St. Martin’s, and more.