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Macmillan's Revised Contract Lowers Digital Royalties, Raises Direct to Consumer

| 10/29/2009 @ 02:20PM

A new Macmillan contract will change the way the publisher pays for digital sales as well as upping royalties for direct to consumer sales.
Deals: 10/26/2009

by Rachel Deahl | 10/26/2009 @ 06:00AM

Ecco gets Leonard Cohen bio, Grand Central nabs a Food Network personality, Hyperion closes on Willie Geist's second book, more.
HarperOne Signs Psychic Sylvia Browne

| 10/21/2009 @ 01:47PM

HarperCollins's San Francisco-based imprint, HarperOne, has inked psychic (and bestseller) Sylvia Browne to a three-book deal.
Simon & Schuster Signs Trilogy Adapted from iTunes App

By Rachel Deahl | 10/19/2009 @ 01:19PM

Simon & Schuster's Atria Books imprint has struck a three-book deal with F.J. Lennon for a series based on his popular video game app, Soul Trapper.
Deals: 10/19/2009

by Rachel Deahl | 10/19/2009 @ 06:00AM

Simon & Schuster nabs Pamela Geller, Hacking Work goes to Portfolio, Naval Institute Press gets Russian sub documentary tie-in, and more.
Bantam Signs Koontz for New Frankenstein Novels

By Lynn Andriani | 10/15/2009 @ 01:33PM

Bantam has signed Dean Koontz for three new Frankenstein novels, which will be the first of the series—launched with two volumes in 2005—that will be published in hardcover. The first new volume, Lost Souls, will be published in May 2010 and begins a new story cycle that will continue with the two subsequent books, to be released in May 2011 and May 2012.
Frankfurt Book Fair: Writers House Announces Simultaneous Six-Country Release of Follett’s Next Novel

By Lynn Andriani | 10/14/2009 @ 01:44PM

The first major deal out of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair involves an international laydown of Ken Follett’s next novel, Fall of Giants, which will be the first title in Follett’s New Century Trilogy. The simultaneous six-country release—set for September 28, 2010—will coincide with the airing of an eight-hour Pillars of the Earth TV miniseries next fall.
Deals: 10/12/2009

by Rachel Deahl | 10/12/2009 @ 06:00AM

John Glusman, Victoria Alexander, Peter McGuigan, MacAdam/Cage, more.
Pre-Frankfurt Deals: Two Iowa Writers' M.F.A.s Go at Auction

By Rachel Deahl | 10/09/2009 @ 04:42PM

Closing a five-way auction just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Brian DeFiore sold North American rights to 26-year-old Benjamin Hale's debut to Cary Goldstein at Twelve. Another Iowa graduate, Anna Keesey, just sold her debut novel, Little Century, at auction, to Courtney Hodell at FSG.
Self-Published Guardsman Lands Deal with NAL

By Rachel Deahl | 10/07/2009 @ 01:29PM

Capt. Benjamin Tupper, a member of the New York National Guard who blogged about his experiences overseas, has just closed a deal with NAL for his book, Welcome to Afghanistan, Send More Ammo, thanks to an inadvertent plug from Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.
Deals: 10/5/2009

By Rachel Deahl | 10/05/2009 @ 06:00AM

Putnam's Neil Nyren, Hyperion's Leslie Wells, St. Martin's Jennifer Enderlin, Gotham's Miriam Rich, Henry Holt's Gillian Blake, and more.
Licensing Hotline: October 2009

By Karen Raugust | 10/01/2009 @ 02:50PM

David Biedrzycki's Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective is ready to generate buzz through a new representation deal between Charlesbridge and The ThinkTank Emporium, marking the first time Charlesbridge has signed with an outside agent to develop one of its book franchises. See more licensing stories, including news of Golden’s Iron Man: Armored Adventures titles, and Parragon teaming with MGA Entertainment on a new doll line for tween girls.
Garth Stein Moves to Simon & Schuster for Next Book

By Rachel Deahl | 09/29/2009 @ 01:49PM

Garth Stein, author of the bestselling The Art of Racing in the Rain, is leaving HarperCollins, which published Rain in 2008, for Simon & Schuster, which will publish his next novel in summer 2011.
Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Briefcase 2009

By Rachel Deahl, Liz Thomson and Nicholas Clee | 09/28/2009 @ 06:00AM

Ann Brasheres grows up, Bret Easton Ellis heads back to his L.A. roots, Julia Childs's grand-nephew talks H2O, Julie Powell hits the butcher block, Eoin Colfer does his best Douglas Adams impression and George Romero lays down the rules of zombie-dom—that and more in PW's roundup of the big books up for grabs at this year's fair.
Deals: 9/28/20009

By Rachel Deahl | 09/28/2009 @ 06:00AM
Jimmy Carter Moves to FSG for White House Diaries

By Rachel Deahl | 09/25/2009 @ 07:12PM

Jimmy Carter has moved houses, signing to do his next book with FSG. (Carter's last book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, was published by Simon & Schuster in January.) John Sterling acquired world rights to the book--which will be the former president's White House diaries--and the house is planning to publish in October 2010.
Ballantine Buys Sanford Memoir

| 09/22/2009 @ 12:19PM

Ballantine Books has acquired the memoir of Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford.
Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Survey Examines New Business Models

| 09/11/2009 @ 01:17PM

The Frankfurt Book Fair is conducting a survey of what the world’s publishers believe will be the business models of the future.
Patterson Signs 17-Book Deal with Hachette

| 09/08/2009 @ 03:39PM

James Patterson has signed a new 17-book deal with Hachette that will include 11 adult novels and six young adult works, in a deal extending through 2012.
Deals: 9/7/2009

By Rachel Deahl | 09/07/2009 @ 06:00AM

Civil Rights, Graphically Mark Siegel at First Second took world rights to a coming-of-age graphic novel called The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long and Jim Demonakos, with illustrations by Nate Powell. Agent Judy Hansen brokered the deal, and the book, set in 1967 Houston against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, is, she says, in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird; in the novel...

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