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Deals: Rubin's New Pet
Rubin's New Pet Within two hours of receiving the proposal, Doubleday publisher Steve Rubin preempted world rights to New York Times editor Janet Elder's tentatively titled Huck on an exclusive submission from Esther Newberg; Rubin paid six figures. Newberg approached Rubin with the story of a poodle named Huck that had transformed Elder's life because she knew about Rubin's enthusiasm for dogs.
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Viking Wins Self-Published Stroke Memoir
Viking's Clare Ferraro has acquired world rights to My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor's account of recovering from a stroke that she had originally released through lulu.com.
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Deals: Three More From Bourdain
Three More from Bourdain Daniel Halpern at Ecco has acquired Anthony Bourdain's next three books in a North American rights deal with Kim Witherspoon at Inkwell. The first book, Cooks, is a follow-up to Kitchen Confidential, in which the author explores how the industry he loves—and the people in it—have changed, if at all, since his years in the kitchen, and tracks the bizarre chan...
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Portfolio Wins Spitzer Scandal Book
A forthcoming book about Eliot Spitzer, by Fortune magazine writer Peter Elkind, has been acquired by Portfolio.
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Deals: S&S Wins Wall Street Tale
S&S Wins Wall Street Tale S&S senior editor Colin Fox bested four other houses in an auction for Duff McDonald’s untitled book on Jamie Dimon; David Kuhn sold world rights. Derived from a cover piece McDonald wrote for New York magazine last month, the book will look at the career of the JP-MorganChase CEO—from protégé, then castoff, of Citigroup’s Sandy Weil...
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Sentinel Acquires Huckabee Book
Sentinel has acquired a new book from Mike Huckabee. The title is slated for a November 2008 release.
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Spitzer Book Making the Rounds
Representatives for Peter Elkind, Fortune writer and coauthor The Smartest Guys in the Room, are shopping a proposal of a book on former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
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Square One Signs Movie Deal with Ang Lee
Square One Publishers, best known for its nonfiction titles, has signed a deal with Focus Features and director Ang Lee for the two to develop a movie based on the publisher's Taking Woodstock, a memoir by Elliot Tiber.
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Deals: Hot Debut to Penguin Press
Hot Debut to Penguin Press Penguin Press ed-in-chief Eamon Dolan won a big auction for Jedediah Berry's first novel, The Manual of Detection, via Esmond Harmsworth at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth. The book, said to defy genre but borrowing elements from speculative novels, surrealistic fiction and classic detective fiction, follows a lowly clerk charged with investigating the disappearance of the...
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Rowling and RDR Meet in Court
Having filed suit against Muskegon, Mich.-based publisher RDR Books last fall, J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. saw their case tried in federal court this week. The trial centered around RDR’s intended publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steven Vander Ark, based on Vander Ark’s Web site of the same name, which included an alphabetical listing of and details about all of the characters, spells, places and creatures in Rowling’s Harry Potter universe.
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Rowling Trial Wraps Up on Day Three
Despite Judge Robert P. Patterson’s calling the lawsuit a “so-called three-day trial" at one point during Tuesday’s proceedings, on Wednesday the remaining witnesses took the stand—including J.K. Rowling once more—and closing arguments were delivered in Rowling and Warner Brothers’ trial vs. RDR Books.
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Day Two Brings Fresh Drama at Rowling Trial
As new witnesses took the stand on the second day of the Rowling/Warner Brothers trial against RDR Books, discussion moved to the usefulness of the Harry Potter Lexicon, the potential advantages of its being first to market, and the degree to which the book might affect sales of Rowling’s own long-planned Potter encyclopedia.
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Rowling Takes the Stand in RDR Suit
The clash of perspectives between author J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers versus Michigan-based publisher RDR Books was evident from the beginning of the first day of testimony today in U.S. District Court in downtown Manhattan.
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Deals: Picturing Marriage
Picturing Marriage Random executive editor Susan Mercandetti won a six-way auction for A Cartoon Marriage: A His and Hers Collection of Original Cartoons by longtime New Yorker magazine cartoonists Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin. Perhaps the only married couple in the U.S. who are both full-time cartoonists, the duo will explore and celebrate the ups and downs of marriage in the book, to cons...
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Deals: Daum to Knopf
Daum to Knopf Knopf senior editor Robin Desser preempted North American rights to a new nonfiction book by Meghan Daum, Give Me Shelter; Tina Bennett at Janklow & Nesbit made the sale. This chronicle of real estate obsession explores the relationship between solitude, independence, love and home.
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HM Sets September Pub for New Roth
Houghton Mifflin has announced that Philip Roth's new novel, Indignation, will be released in September.
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Dutton Wins Recall
Dutton Wins Recall Dutton executive editor Stephen Morrow won world English rights to Total Recall: The Astonishing, Imminent and Inevitable Ability to Remember Your Entire Life by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell; James Levine at Levine Greenberg took the project to auction after receiving three preempt offers.
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Skyhorse Is Set to Ride Jesse Ventura to Fame and Fortune
Year-old publisher is still establishing itself, but finds its first big author in former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura
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'Miss Pettigrew' a Hit for London's Persephone Books
There is no “official” movie tie-in edition of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. However, a small English publishing house, Persephone Books, which re-releases forgotten classics by 20th-century (mostly) women writers and has two stores in London, has sold 23,000 copies of its version of Winifred Watson’s novel. It’s the biggest seller in Persephone’s nine-year history.
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Archipelago Wins Miriam Bass; AAP Indie Meeting Set
The Brooklyn-based not-for-profit literary press, Archipelago Books, has been awarded this year's Miriam Bass prize. The AAP has also announced the speaker line-up for its annual small and independent annual meeting program.
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