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Deals: To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief Bob Wittman, the special agent who created the FBI's art theft recovery team and, until his retirement on September 19, was its only undercover operative, inked a deal to tell the story of his career, tentatively titled In Pursuit of the Priceless; Rick Horgan at Crown beat out five other publishers for North American rights via Larry Weissman.
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Deals: Elements of Graphic Style
Elements of Graphic Style Norton senior editor Maria Guarnaschelli beat four other publishers in an auction for Dona Wong's The Wall Street Journal Guide to Presenting Data, Facts and Figures; Lynn Johnston sold world rights. Aiming to be the Strunk & White of graphics, the book will instruct readers how to express themselves in a data-driven world in which the good graphics have become a...
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Deals: Meister to Putnam
Meister to Putnam Putnam's Rachel Kahan won North American rights to a new novel by Ellen Meister in an auction conducted by Andrea Cirillo at Jane Rotrosen. The book, The Silver Line, tells the story of a suburban mom expecting her second child who discovers that she might be able to slip through a wrinkle in time and return to her single life.
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Deals: Michaels Re-Ups with Kensington
Michaels Re-ups with Kensington Kensington president Steve Zachariushas signed bestselling author Fern Michaels to a new five-book contract in a world rights deal negotiated by Martin Friedman at McLaughlin & Stern; Audrey LaFehr will edit. The new books, beginning with Under the Radar in June 2009, will continue the Sisterhood series, about a group of strong female friends who create their...
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Deals: Laird to Viking
Laird to Viking Viking president Clare Ferraro has signed up two new novels by Nick Laird in a U.S. rights—only deal with Natasha Fairweather at A.P. Watt; Viking publisher Paul Slovak will edit. The first of the two books is tentatively titled Glover’s Mistake and examines the corrosive power of jealousy through the prism of an unusual threesome: a 30-something college teacher in L...
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Deals: Big Memoirs to Crown
Big Memoirs to Crown Harmony publisher Shaye Areheart just signed up a new book by Brooke Newman with a preemptive six-figure offer to Sterling Lord, who sold North American rights. The working title is A Love of Numbers, and John Glusman will edit. Described as a memoir with poetic license, the book is set in Washington, D.
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Deals: Miracle Movie
Miracle Movie In January 2006, Logan and Noah Miller's father, a homeless alcoholic, died in jail. The twins, aspiring filmmakers with no meaningful experience, had for years wanted to make an autobiographical film about their dad, and on the day he died, they vowed to make it happen. In Either You're In or In the Way, the Millers will describe how, without a dime to their name or a single Hol...
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Deals: Free Press Preempts 'Stuff'
Free Press Preempts 'Stuff' Wylie O'Sullivan at the Free Press preempted world rights to Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff via Linda Loewenthal at David Black, who had four preemptive offers and 15 publishers interested. Leonard, the creator of the Internet short film phenomenon The Story of Stuff, which has gotten almost four million full views, will expand on the life of the stuff we use eve...
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Deals: Sibling Rivalry
Sibling Rivalry Atria senior editor Greer Hendricks won an auction for a first novel by Sarah Pekkanen titled Way Beyond Compare; Victoria Sanders sold world English rights. Pekkanen, a monthly columnist for Bethesda magazine, will, tongue in cheek, explore low self-esteem, the hunger to succeed and have it all, and the grueling but rewarding bond of sisterhood.
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Deals: Knopf Takes the Bacon
Knopf Takes the Bacon Sonny Mehta has acquired the next work by de Kooning authors Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, to be a biography of artist Francis Bacon; Clare Conville at Conville and Walsh sold North American rights. Stevens and Swan will have full access to Bacon's archives and papers. No pub date yet; Knopf published de Kooning in 2004, and it went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Penguin Press Nabs Coveted Debut Novel
Ann Godoff has won U.S. rights to a hot debut novel by Reif Larsen that Penguin Press will publish next summer.
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Deals: LB Wins Zafon YA Titles
LB Wins Zafón YA Titles Jennifer Hunt at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers bought North American rights to four YA titles by Carlos Ruiz Zafón in an auction conducted by Thomas Colchie on behalf of Antonia Kerrigan. The four books—The Prince of the Mist, The Midnight Palace, September Lights and Marina— launched Zafón's career before his bestselling adult debut, ...
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Stephenie Meyer… in Concert?
Little, Brown will promote the August 2 release of Breaking Dawn, fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling Twilight Saga, with a four-city concert tour, featuring a musical performance by Justin Furstenfeld of the group Blue October.
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Deals: Memoir Preempt
Memoir Preempt Little, Brown executive editor Tracy Behar preempted North American rights to Thomas Buergenthal's memoir, A Lucky Child, via George Lucas at Inkwell on behalf of Profile Books in the U.K. Buergenthal, an expert in human rights law and a judge at the International Court in the Hague, will share the story of his odyssey as a child through two ghettos, Auschwitz, the Auschwitz deat...
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HC To Deliver Election Book from Heilemann and Halperin
HarperCollins has acquired North American rights to a currently untitled book about the 2008 presidential election to be written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
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Deals: Pocket Wins Debut
Pocket Wins Debut Anthony Ziccardi at Pocket was the victor in an auction for a first novel by Lisa Genova titled Still Alice; Vicky Bijur sold world rights. The book is about a successful 50-year-old professor and renowned linguistics specialist who has finally found time to enjoy her marriage and career now that her three children are grown, but whose accelerating memory lapses culminate in a...
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Deals: Return of the Bestsellers
Return of the Bestsellers At Viking, Clare Ferraro has signed up a new book by Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire author Rafe Esquith via Bonnie Solow, who sold world rights. The untitled book, aimed primarily at parents, but applicable to anyone who works with children, will share the values and lessons he teaches his inner-city fourth-grade class, and will include stories about the children who h...
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Deals: Fiction Preempts
Fiction Preempts Touchstone editor-in-chief Trish Todd has preempted what she says is the next big novel about India, in the tradition of The Far Pavilions and The Jewel in the Crown, via Clare Alexander, who sold U.S. rights. The book is East of the Sun by British author Julia Gregson, and it presents the intertwining stories of a chaperone and her three charges who set sail for India in 1926,...
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Knopf Touting Swedish Hit
It’s not every day that you hear an American house talking up its hot new Swedish thriller. But Knopf is starting to do just that for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which it will release in September with a 100,000-copy printing. Author Stieg Larsson’s bizarre backstory—in a John Kennedy O’Toole—ish twist, he died just before he was published—coupled with K...
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Memoirs Keep Coming
Publishers continue to snap up memoirs, undermining the perception that the genre is embattled in this post-Frey, post-Seltzer era. Gotham executive editor Lauren Marino preempted North American rights to a memoir straight from the pages of the New York Times' “Modern Love” column: Julie Klausner's tentatively titled I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons I've Learned from Romantic D...
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