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HC's Prince Charles Deal Tops Pre-London Sales
HarperCollins signed a two-book deal with Prince Charles, just one of a number of book sales made as the London Book Fair begins.
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Internet Archive Latest to Object to Google Settlement
The Internet Archive has sent a letter to the judge overseeing the Google settlement requesting permission to file a motion that would address the question of orphan works and look for other companies to be granted to same protection from liability that Google will receive if the settlement is approved.
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Penguin India Spends Record Amount on Debut Novel
British literary agency David Godwin Associates Ltd. has sold Tiger Hills, a novel by Sarita Mandanna, to Penguin India for the largest advance the house has ever paid for a debut. Sophie Hoult of DGA did not give an exact amount but said the deal was seven figures.
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Harlequin Lands Reno Title
Health and fitness guru Tosca Reno's next book will be published by Harlequin as part of the publisher's growing nonfiction list.
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Hyperion Signs Breslin for Blagojevich Book
Hyperion editor-in-chief Will Balliett has signed a new book by Jimmy Breslin about the scandal surrounding Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
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Andrews McMeel Signs Deal with Bon Appétit
Andrews McMeel Publishing has signed a cookbook deal with Bon Appétit magazine. The house will release The Bon Appétit Desserts Cookbook in fall 2010. Bon Appétit has previously published books with Wiley; the most recent one, Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh, won a 2008 IACP award.
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The Return of ‘Blueberries for Sal’
Robert McCloskey’s Caldecott Honor picture book, Blueberries for Sal, hasn’t been available to order for the past year. However, following several years of negotiation between Penguin and McCloskey’s estate, that situation is about to change. Finally, last Thursday, an agreement was reached between Viking and the McCloskey estate for the entire body of McCloskey’s work.
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Book Deals: Week of 4/6/2009
Norton Signs Schoenfeld, Woof Maria Guarnaschelli at Norton bought North American rights to Gabe Schoenfeld’s Necessary Secrets via Chris Calhoun at Sterling Lord. Schoenfeld, formerly a senior editor at Commentary magazine and author of the essay “Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act?” will offer a historically informed analysis of America’s tolerance for l...
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Book Deals: Week of 3/23/09
Putnam Preempts Farnsworth’s Vampires Rachel Kahan at Putnam preempted Christopher Farnsworth’s debut, Blood Oath, and two subsequent novels, via Alexandra Machinist at Linda Chester, who made the major six-figure world rights deal amid multiple initial offers. The series of books centers on a vampire sworn to protect the U.
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Book Deals: Week of 3/16/09
Two for Castillo and Colchie Johanna Castillo at Atria won an auction for Felix J. Palma's The Map of Time via Thomas Colchie, who sold North American rights for six figures (in collaboration with Palma's principal agent, Antonia Kerrigan, on behalf of Algaida in Spain). Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, Palma's English-language debut features three intertwined plots, i...
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Book Deals: McCall Smith to Pantheon; Niffenegger to Scribner
Alexander McCall Smith has signed a new deal with Edward Kastenmeier at Pantheon for three more books in his The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, as well as the first volume in a new series entitled Courduroy Mansions and a standalone called La's Orchestra Saves the World. Audrey Niffenegger’s second novel sold to Scribner, Her Fearful Symmetry, for a figure reported to be just shy of $5 million.
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Death and 'Dirty Dancing'
Former PW editor Emily Chenoweth interweaves the story of a daughter's sexual awakening with her mother's terminal illness, culminating in a bittersweet anniversary party, in her debut, Hello Goodbye.
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The Monkey God's Hands
Cheeni Rao is an award-winning fiction writer and graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop. Rao's memoir, In Hanuman's Hands (Reviews, Jan. 19), is a visionary journey from rock bottom to recovery, telling how a drug and alcohol addiction opened his eyes to the divine and, in particular, forged for him a relationship with Hanuman, the monkey god of the Hindu epic the Ramayana.
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Book Deals: Week 3/9/09
SMP Wins Tibetan Saga St. Martin's Press editor Lindsay Sagnette prevailed in a weeklong, multipublisher auction for Freedom Deep in My Heart by Tibetan activist and actress Yangzom Brauen, her mother, Sonam Dolma, and her grandmother Kunsang Wangmo. The memoir portrays three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending ...
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Deals: Week of 3/2/2009
Scribner Wins Vanderbes Alexis Gargagliano won an auction for two new novels by Jennifer Vanderbes in a mid-six-figure deal with Dorian Karchmar at William Morris. The first in the deal, Trespasses, explores how the forces of history and culture invisibly encroach on three generations of an American family, culminating in a horrific crime committed on Thanksgiving day.
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Toy Fair 2009: Back to Basics
The number of exhibitors at this week's New York International Toy Fair was down from years past—fewer than 30 booths featured publishers or authors, for example, compared to the typical 40 to 45—and traffic was light. Many publishers said they had a productive show, however, noting that attendees were serious about writing orders.
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Deals: Week of 2/23/2009
Wallace’s Wisdom Julian Pavia at Crown acquired North American rights to Mike Wallace and Beth Knobel’s Heat and Light: Advice for the Next Generation of Journalists; Doug Grad made the sale. The book will offer advice on what it takes to create great journalism, including tips on gathering story ideas, cultivating sources, crafting compelling narratives and conducting interviews.
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Of Prussia, with Love
Michael G. Jacob, under the pseudonym of Michael Gregorio, writes, along with his Italian wife, Daniela De Gregorio, a historical mystery series influenced by the ideas of Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, the latest of which is A Visible Darkness.
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Deals
The Economics of Behavior David Moldawer at Portfolio beat three other bidders in a two-day auction for Moneylab: Lab-Tested Wisdom from the New Science of Business by Kay-Yut Chen and Marina Krakovsky; Ted Weinstein made the well-into-six-figure world rights sale. In the book, Hewlett-Packard economist Chen and science journalist Krakovsky will explain the practical implications of behavioral...
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Deals
Free Press Keeps Gilmore Free Press editor-in-chief Dominick Anfuso has acquired North American rights to Mikal Gilmore's The Albums: The Story of a Life Lived With and Without a Music Collection in a deal with Richard Pine at InkWell. In the book—which Gilmore considers to be a “partner” to his National Book Critics Circle Award—winning memoir, Shot in the Heart, about ...
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