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'PW' Reviews: 'Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters' by Marilyn Monroe
Farrar, Straus and Giroux today released Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe. PW's review of the embargoed book follows.
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Deals: Week of 10/11/10
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Former Herald Book Editor Pens Votive Mystery
Votive portraits featuring the artist's patrons were common in religious paintings of the 15th century. Votive literature in the 21st century, not so much. But in her debut mystery novel, Front Page Teaser, Rosemary Herbert does exactly that. The former Boston Herald book review editor, who edited several mystery anthologies, pays tribute to Mary Higgins Clark, who encouraged her to write a book of her own.
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Deals: Week of 10/4/10
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S&S Signs Old, New Candace Bergen Memoir
Simon & Schuster has just signed a new memoir by actress Candace Bergen--sort of. In an odd twist, the new book, which is scheduled to drop in 2012 from the house's flagship imprint, has technically been under contract for 23 years.
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North Patterson Moves to Scribner; Senior Signs With Ecco
Bestseller Richard North Patterson has moved houses, signing a two-book deal with Scribner. Susan Moldow, executive v-p and publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint inked the deal for North American rights with Patterson's agent, Frederick Hill. Patterson was at Holt.
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Deals: Week of 9/27/10
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Deals: Week of 10/25/10
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Deals: Week of 9/20/10
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Rights Report: September 16
Disney and Offspring Entertainment have bought film rights to Ally Condie's Matched, a futuristic fantasy novel that Dutton is publishing in November, and Stacy Whitman at Lee & Low Books has acquired the first two novels for its Tu Books imprint.
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Houghton to Publish 'Mysteries of Harris Burdick' Spinoff
One Pulitzer Prize, five Newbery Medals, three Newbery Honors, two Caldecott Medals, one Caldecott Honor, three National Book Awards, and five Coretta Scott King Awards. This is just a partial list of accolades that have been bestowed upon the contributors to a book due from Houghton Mifflin in fall 2011.
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Deals: Week of 9/13/10
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Bloomsbury to Publish Memoir by Irish President
Bloomsbury USA has acquired North American rights to Everybody Matters, a memoir by human rights activist Mary Robinson. Agent Lynn Franklin, of Lynn C. Franklin Associates, brokered the deal for Robinson, who was also the first female President of Ireland, in office from 1990-1997.
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Deals: Week of 9/6/10
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Deals: Week of 8/30/10
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Deals: Week of 8/23/10
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Deals: Week of 8/16/10
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Putnam and Berkley Sign Two More From Cornwell
Crime writer Patricia Cornwell has sold two new novels featuring her character Kay Scarpetta to her longtime publishers, Putnam and Berkley. Putnam will publish the books in hardcover, and Berkley will do the paperbacks.
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Deals: Week of 8/9/10
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Beaufort Teams with 'American Spectator' for 'The Ruling Class'
Al Regnery has not been directly involved with book publishing for a number of years, but he is getting back into the business in a joint venture with Eric Kampmann, head of Midpoint Trade and Beaufort Books, to publish a book based on the cover story of the summer issue of The American Spectator for which Regnery is publisher. The 12,000-word article, "The Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution" by Angelo Codevilla, argues that the country is not divided along Democratic and Republican lines but by a class system in which a group of elites uses their power to promote their own agenda.
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