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Red Wheel Weiser Buys Disinformation Books
Red Wheel Weiser, best known for its New Age, spiritual and inspirational titles, its broadening the scope of its program by acquiring Disinformation Books from the Disinformation Company.
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Parton, Dawkins, Lehane, Others In Flurry of Pre-BEA Deals
With BookExpo America beginning today at the Javits Center, publishers wasted no time in announcing a number of high profile acquisitions this morning.
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Deals: Week of June 4, 2012
Bloomsbury Tilts at Windmills With Egginton and more
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Waxman, Leavell Form New Agency
Agents Scott Waxman and Byrd Leavell have teamed up to form a new shingle, The Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.
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King Signs for New Novel With Hard Case Crime
Titan Books's line of pulp novels, Hard Case Crime, will be releasing a new Stephen King novel called Joyland in June 2013. The book is set in a North Carolina amusement park in 1973.
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Deals: Week of May 28, 2012
Atria lands transgender tale, Rachel DeWoskin's first novel for young adults, and more.
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Random Imprint Acquires Self-Pubbed Phenom on Journey to Heaven
WaterBrook Multnomah, the evangelical Christian imprint of Random House’s Crown Publishing Group, has acquired To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels and Life Again by Mary C. Neal, which she self-published in November 2011.
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Deals: Week of May 21, 2012
Lescroart Moves to Atria and more
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Allan Gurganus Moves to Liveright & Co. To Publish Two New Works
Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright & Co., has acquired two new works by novelist Allan Gurganus, author of the acclaimed and bestselling 1989 novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
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Young's 'Cross Roads' Coming Nov. 13
Hachette Book Group, which last August acquired rights to The Shack author W. Paul Young’s new novel, announced that its FaithWords imprint will release Cross Roads November 13 in hardcover. Audio, e-book, and foreign editions are also planned.
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Deals: Week of May 14, 2012
Razorbill Nabs MacHale Trilogy, Lisa Scottoline signs a new deal, Tor Teen lands a new fantasy series, and more.
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Deals: Week of May 7, 2012
Tarttelin Goes ‘Golden’ for Atria and more
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Deals: Week of April 30, 2012
Morrow Gets Hitched with Choo and more
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Big Deals, ‘Seismic’ Change at LBF 2012
It wasn’t ash from an Icelandic volcano this time, but a cloud hung over the 2012 London Book Fair, fallout from the U.S. Department of Justice’s price-fixing suit against publishers, filed just days before the fair began. Unlike the eruption that stranded fairgoers two years ago, a busy show floor in the main hall as well as a noticeably large contingent from this year’s guest of honor, China, suggests the 2012 London Book Fair attendance may well exceed the 24,802 of last year, though final numbers won’t be released for weeks. And this year’s fair generated some buzz, with new books announced from big-name authors, a surprise seven-figure deal for a first-timer, and a few noteworthy trends emerging on the show floor and in the professional program.