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London Briefcase: What the Big Six Are Bringing to the Fair
Glenn Beck rants about conspiracy theories (this time in fiction), Steve Martin explores the art world, Gary Shteyngart gets romantic, Jimmy Carter unlocks his diary, Laura Bush unlocks her life, and Drs. Oz and Roizen tackle parenting. These are just a few of the highlights you'll find among the books the “big six” are selling at the 2010 London Book Fair.
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Dutton Children's Pre-Empts YA Debut for Six Figures
In a deal for six figures, Dutton Children's Books bought a debut YA novel by a young editor at another Penguin imprint.
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Harper Buys Scott Brown Memoir
After word spread throughout the industry that a book proposal from newly elected Massachusetts senator Scott Brown was circulating, HarperCollins announced today Jonathan Burnham acquired a currently untitled memoir by the junior politician.
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HMH Children's Buys Buzzed-About Anne Frank Novel
In another buzzed-about pre-Bologna acquisition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's bought U.S. and Canadian rights to a YA novel called Annexed that tells a famous Holocaust tale from the vantage point of an unexpected player.
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Harper Teen Pays Seven Figures for Debut YA Trilogy
In a major pre-Bologna acquisition, Laura Arnold at Harper Teen pre-empted North American rights to a debut YA trilogy by Josephine Angelini.
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Chua's Sought-After Parenting Memoir Goes to Penguin Press
Amy Chua's highly sought-after memoir about her experiences with "Chinese mothering," Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has landed at Penguin Press. According to industry sources, the book fetched an advance well over $500,000.
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What's Old Is New for Pooh
Starting this spring, Penguin Young Readers Group's Grosset & Dunlap imprint will publish a variety of formats under the Classic Pooh brand, through a deal with Disney Licensed Publishing. The books, to include hardcover picture books, board books, paperback storybooks, sticker books and novelty books, will feature artwork inspired by the classic E.H. Shepard illustrations and editorial content tied to the world of A.A. Milne's original stories.
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Dutton to Publish First John Grisham Series for Kids
Penguin Young Readers Group in the U.S. and Hodder & Stoughton in the U.K. announced today that they will be publishing bestselling author John Grisham's first series of books for children. The middle-grade series will focus on 13-year-old Theodore Boone, a legal whiz kid. In the first book, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, Theo gets caught up in a high-profile murder trial in his town. It's scheduled to be released by Dutton Children's Books on May 25, and on June 10 by Hodder in the U.K. The second book, as yet untitled, is scheduled for release in 2011.
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Numbers Down, But Spirits Up, at 2010 Toy Fair
The number of publishers exhibiting at Toy Fair continues to decline, with fewer than 25 of the 1,100 booths at the show featuring publishing houses this year, versus about 30 last year and 40 to 45 five years ago. Bargain book vendors and liquidators now take up some of the space previously held by traditional publishers in the Children's Books & Music section of the show, which ran from February 14-17 at the Javits Center.
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Knopf to Do 200K Printing for Remnick's Obama Bio
Knopf has acquired a biography of President Obama by New Yorker editor David Remnick.
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Deals
T.J. Kelleher buys James Stein; "Don't Know Much" Scribe Moves Houses; Shannon Closes on Prose & Smith; more.
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Toy Fair Exhibitors Fewer in Number, but Upbeat
The number of publishers exhibiting at Toy Fair this week at the Javits Center in New York City continues to decline, with fewer than 25 of the 1,100 booths at the show featuring publishing houses this year, versus about 30 last year and 40 to 45 five years ago. Bargain book vendors and liquidators now take up some of the space previously held by traditional publishers in the Children's Books & Music section of the show. Exhibitors that continue to show at Toy Fair, including trade houses such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, educational publishers such as School Zone and Carson Dellosa, mass market/value publishers such as Bendon, and book-plus and novelty publishers such as SmartLab and InnovativeKids, were largely upbeat about this year's show, reporting good traffic (especially after the first day), a significant amount of order-writing, and first-time customers.
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Deals: 2/15/2010
Sweet Valley Revisited; Into the "Woods"; more.
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Da Capo Signs Tiger Woods Bio
Perseus imprint Da Capo Press has closed a deal for a new biography of controversy-embroiled superstar Tiger Woods.
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Deals: 2/8/2010
Time Travel... for Teens; Music, Lyrics, and Pictures, by Hamlisch; Immortal Beloveds; more.
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Bray Lands Major Deal at Little, Brown
Libba Bray, hot off her Printz win for Going Bovine, has landed a major book deal at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Bray's agent-husband, Barry Goldblatt, sold North American rights, in an auction featuring six houses, to a new YA series called The Diviners to LBBYR senior v-p and publisher Megan Tingley, deputy publisher Andrew Smith, and senior editor Alvina Ling.
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Licensing Hotline: February 2010
These days, publishers often are leery of creating licensed publishing programs based on original, non-franchise-based films. But the risk paid off for HarperCollins Children's Books when it tied in with Avatar, which has become the top box-office earner of all time. Read on for information about the Percy Jackson movie, a Between the Lions program from Gryphon House, a new Sherlock Holmes merchandising effort, and more...
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Grand Central in New Deal with Preston/Child
Grand Central Publishing has extended its relationship with bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child in a new deal that will include a new, original series of novels as well as the continuation of their Pendergast novels.
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Deals: 2/1/2010
GCP Gets Simon's 'Girl'; Caruso-Cabrera Lands at S&S; more.
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Deals: 1/25/2010
Gortner Goes to Ballantine... and SMP; Crow's Cancer Diet; Europa Nabs British Backlister; more
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