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HarperCollins Acquires New Amy Tan Novel
HarperCollins Publishers has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to publish Amy Tan’s latest novel, The Valley of Amazement. In the U.S. the deal was negotiated by Daniel Halpern, president and publisher of Ecco, and by Tan's agent, Sandra Dijkstra of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
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Kostova Moves to Ballantine
Ballantine Bantam Dell has acquired a new novel by Elizabeth Kostova, author of the bestsellers The Historian and The Swan Thieves. The publisher acquired North American hardcover, paperback, audio, and e-book publication rights for the new novel, which is not yet titled, from Amy Williams of McCormick & Williams.
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Permanent Press Looks to Reprint Anti-Nuclear Power Expose
As Japanese authorities struggle to head off catastrophic meltdowns at their devastated nuclear power plants, the contentious debate over the future and safety of nuclear power is on the rise again here in this country. Originally published in 1980, investigative reporter Karl Grossman’s acclaimed anti-nuclear power expose, Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power (Permanent Press), has long been out of print but Permanent Press copublisher Martin Shepard is looking for publishing partners to bring out a revised edition.
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Deals: Week of 3/21/11
Other Press Goes Graphic and More.
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Rights Report: March 17
Emily Meehan at Disney-Hyperion has acquired the seventh and final installment of Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series, along with two companion novels. Christy Ottaviano has bought world English rights to Lisa Schroeder's first foray into YA fantasy, Impossibly Small, for her imprint at Henry Holt.
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Crown Signs Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama has inked a deal to write a book about the garden she planted on the South Lawn of the White House for Crown.
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Random Acquires Al Gore's Next Book
Random House has acquired a new book by Al Gore, a yet-to-be-titled book on the political, social, and economic forces “shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades.” The book is the first acquisition for Jon Meacham, executive v-p, executive editor, since he joined Random earlier this year, and it is slated for release in 2012.
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Deals: Week of 3/14/11
Macmillan Kids' Nabs Schroeder Fantasy Effort and More.
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Rights Report: March 10
New deals for several YA novels, and a middle-grade poetry anthology.
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Alice Hoffman Moving to Scribner
Alice Hoffman is moving from Random House to Scribner. The house will publish Hoffman’s next novel, The Dovekeepers, on October 4. Evp and publisher Susan Moldow and svp and editor-in-chief Nan Graham, who will be Hoffman’s editor, acquired the book from Elaine Markson of the Markson Thoma Literary Agency.
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Deals: Week of 3/7/2011
HC Children's Throws Down for Debut and more.
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Deals: Week of 2/28/2011
Free Press Nabs Sweden's 'Crime Sisters' and more.
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S&S Signs Kingsbury to 10 Book Co-Publishing Deal
Simon & Schuster's religious imprint Howard Books has signed a multi-book world rights co-publishing agreement with bestselling Christian fiction author Karen Kingsbury. The deal, negotiated by Becky Nesbitt, v-p and editor in chief of Howard Books and Rick Christian, president of Alive Communications, involves 10 books with the first to be released in June 2012.
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Deals: Week of 2/21/11
Avery Gets Fine 'Bud' and more.
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Harpo Picks Abrams for 'Oprah' Book
Harpo, Inc. and Abrams have inked a deal to publish a book about The Oprah Winfrey Show. The book will come out this fall, following the conclusion of the show’s 25th and final season. The illustrated coffee table book will include images from the show as well as “new material and text,” an Abrams spokesperson said.
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Deals: Week of 2/14/11
Spencer Tries Horror and More.
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RH Children's Nabs YA Trilogy by 'Twin Peaks' Co-Creator
Mark Frost, the co-creator of David Lynch's celebrated cult TV hit Twin Peaks, has sold his first children's book to Random House. Editorial director of Random House Children's Jim Thomas acquired the trilogy, called Will West: The Epic, in a deal brokered by agents Sophie Hicks and Ed Victor of Ed Victor Ltd. The first book in the series, The Paladin Protocol, is scheduled for release in North America for fall 2012.
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