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Trevor Paglen’s 'The Last Pictures' To Be Launched Into Perpetual Orbit
In a unique co-publishing arrangement between University of California Press and New York's Creative Time Books, artist and scholar Trevor Paglen has written and edited The Last Pictures, a collection of 100 photographs that speak to questions in politics, science, and art.
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S&S Signs Sally Ride Biography
Sally Ride, the first female astronaut to make it into space, who died on July 23, will be the subject of a new biography by journalist Lynn Sherr.
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Book Riot Launches ‘Start Here’ Kickstarter Campaign
Book Riot, an online site devoted to promoting books, reading and writing, is launching a crowdfunding campaign to fund a book collection of Start Here, a popular feature on the site that introduces readers to classic works of literature.
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Deals: Week of July 30, 2012
Castillo Nabs Int’l Hit & a Self-Pubbed Bestseller and more
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Random House Launches TV Division
After several years of working in the film business, with its Random House Films unit, Random House is getting into television. The publisher is partnering with TV production/distribution company FremantleMedia to develop scripted programs based on its books.
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Deals: Week of July 23, 2012
Moran Takes ‘Empress’ to Touchstone and more
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Deals: Week of July 16, 2012
Bloomsbury Lands Mapson’s Latest and more
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Gaiman Signs Multi-Book Deal with HarperCollins
Bestselling author Neil Gaiman has signed a multi-book deal with HarperCollins, agreeing to do three novels and two picture books. Kate Morgan Jackson, editor-in-chief of HC Children's Books, and Rosemary Brosnan, executive editor, negotiated the agreement with Gaiman's agent, Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.
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Deals: Week of July 9, 2012
Nestle Settles In at Rodale and more
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Greg Palast, Seven Stories Take Aim at ‘Election Bandits’ in New Book
Acclaimed investigative reporter Greg Palast (along with cartoonist Ted Rall) takes on the big money interests financing—and in his view stealing—the American presidential election in his new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Ways, being published by Seven Stories Press.
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Deals: Week of July 2, 2012
Clark Closes Double and more
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Deals: Week of June 25, 2012
Grand Central Rides the Death Machine, Part Deux, and more
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Evanovich Re-Ups With Random House
Janet Evanovich has signed an eight-book deal with Random House's Ballantine Bantam Dell division, agreeing to do four more books in her bestselling Stephanie Plum series for the publisher, as well as four books in a new series to be written with Lee Goldberg.
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Karp and Singh Nab Parenting Book/Memoir
In a notable book deal this week, NYU Dean of Social Sciences (and author of Honky), Dalton Conley, sold a currently untitled work that's being called part parenting guide and part science book.
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