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Kitty Kelley's Oprah Bio Set for April 13
Crown Publishers will release Kitty Kelley’s unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey April 13 with a first printing “in excess of a half-million copies,” the publisher announced late Thursday afternoon.
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Deals: 1/18/2010
Philomel Nabs WWII Debut; Dykstra Goes with 'Plan B'; Lyons Press Goes with 'Irish' Jerry; more.
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Correction: New Philbrick, 'Bunker Hill,' Slated for 2013
Due to a miscommunication, it was mistakenly reported that Viking is publishing a newly acquired book from Nathaniel Philbrick about the Battle of Little Big Horn in 2013.
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Viking Signs New Philbrick Book
National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick has inked to do his next book, The Last Stand: The Battle of the Little Big Horn, at Viking.
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Overlook Lands Susan Boyle Bio
Overlook has acquired the first biography of British reality TV singing sensation Susan Boyle, Dreams Can Come True.
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Deals: 1/11/2010
Twelve Gets Elementary; Viking Re-Ups Grossman; Cooke Lands at Knopf; more.
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RH Children's Signs New Sachar Title
Random House's Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers imprint has acquired a new YA novel by Louis Sachar called The Cardturner. The title, by the Newbery-winning author of Holes, was sold by Ellen Levine at Trident to Delacorte's Beverly Horowitz, and RH is planning a May 11, 2010, publication. The U.S. deal also follows a British acquisition; Sarah Odedina at Bloomsbury Children's Books closed on the U.K. and Commonwealth rights to the book earlier this week
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Deals: 1/4/2010
Double for McGuigan, Triple for Foundry; Pigeon Gets 'Pacific'; Radziewicz Goes with 'God'... Again; S&S Gets the Jersey Boy; and more.
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Deals: 12/21/2009
Meat Market Clarkson Potter has taken world rights to a currently untitled book by Joshua and Jessica Applestone, owners of Fleisher’s, the upstate New York butcher shop that has been involved in the “anti-feedlot” meat movement. CP senior editor Rica Allannic acquired the book from Amy Hughes at McCormick Williams, and the Applestones—former vegetarians who, among othe...
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Authors Guild Calls Dohle Letter "Regrettable and Unhelpful"
Random House chairman Markus Dohle may have sent this letter to agents in the spirit of collaboration, but that isn’t how the Authors Guild is seeing it. In a message sent to its members this morning, the Guild said it was “regrettable and unhelpful that Random House has chosen to try to intimidate authors and agents over these old book contracts.”
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Hoping for “the Next Stephenie Meyer”
That a publisher is championing the notion it's landed the next Stephenie Meyer isn't very surprising, but Dutton certainly seems to be speaking in more than hyperbole when it compares its newest author to the bestselling author from Utah. Last week the Penguin Young Readers Group imprint laid down a seven-figure advance for three books from Ally Condie, in a heated auction featuring seven other houses.
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Deals: 12/7/2009
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Holt Acquires Schiff Bio of Mailer
Holt has acquired award-winning journalist and screenwriter Stephen Schiff’s forthcoming biography on Norman Mailer.
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Deals: 11/30/2009
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Deals: 11/23/2009
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Deals: 11/16/2009
Foundry, NAL, FSG, more.
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Little, Brown Inks Snicket Deal with Handler
Daniel Handler, who had a long and successful run with his Lemony Snicket-penned A Series of Unfortunate Events series at HarperCollins, is moving to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in a five-book deal. Under the agreement, Handler will write four Lemony Snicket titles in a new series, with the first due out in 2012. Before that series hits, LBYR will release a Handler young adult novel in 2011 that will feature full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman.
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Deals: 11/9/2009
Ryan and McNeil Team Up at Vertigo Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services sold a coming-of-age graphic novel called Bad Houses by artist Carla Speed McNeil and YA novelist Sara Ryan to Joan Hilty at DC’s Vertigo imprint. Hilty took world rights, and Mecoy brokered the deal with Ryan’s agent, Barry Goldblatt.
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Holt Wins Auction for New Elizabeth Kolbert Book
Henry Holt executive editor Gillian Blake has won a hotly contested auction for New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert's new book, The Sixth Extinction. Blake beat out eight other houses for the book, which will be expanded from the author's May 2009 New Yorker piece of the same name.
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Deals: 11/2/2009
Harper Teen, Ballantine, St. Martin's, Minotaur, more.
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