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Gross Scores Six-Book Global Contract with Morrow
Andrew Gross, whose first solo novel The Blue Zone was a New York Times bestseller for William Morrow last spring, has signed with the house for six new books, with HarperCollins to publish in the U.K. The deal marks the first in a new global fiction branding and publishing strategy for Morrow.
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Three More from Thor
Bestselling author Brad Thor has signed a new three-book deal with Atria.
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New Deal for Chase Lapine
New York Times bestselling author of The Sneaky Chef Missy Chase Lapinehas just inked a deal with Running Press for a third Sneaky Chef volume.
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Knopf Announces Title, New Pub Date for Paolini’s Latest
Knopf Books for Young Readers has revealed the name and cover of the third title in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance series. The book, Brisingr, will have a first printing of 2.5 million, the largest initial print run to date for the Random House Children’s Books division.
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Wolcott to Doubleday
Wolcott to Doubleday Gerald Howard at Doubleday acquired North American rights to two new books by James Wolcott via Elyse Cheney. The first is an as-yet untitled memoir of downtown New York in the '70s, when in 1972 Wolcott, at Norman Mailer's suggestion, left Maryland to take a job at the Village Voice as a classified ad taker and eventually became the paper's television and music critic.
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Robbins to Ecco
Robbins to Ecco David Hirshey at Harper, along with Dan Halpern at Ecco, has preempted world rights to a new novel by Tom Robbins, to be published by Ecco in fall 2008; Hirshey will edit. Robbins’s first novel in five years—and his first in 30 years not published by Bantam—is called B Is for Beer; Hirshey describes it as a hallucinogenic hymn to beer, children and the mystery ...
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Little, Brown To Release New Tom Wolfe
Little, Brown has acquired a new novel from Tom Wolfe. Back to Blood, the author's first work of fiction since his 2004 book, I Am Charlotte Simmons, published by Wolfe's longtime house FSG, will be set in Miami and deal with recurring themes for the author such as class and race.
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Sports Stories
Sports Stories Daniel Halpern at Ecco won an auction for S. L. Price’s Heart of the Game, acquiring world rights from Andrew Blauner. Expanded from a September Sports Illustrated article, the book will tell the story of 35-year-old Mike Coolbaugh, a 17-year veteran of minor league baseball who died instantly after being struck by a foul ball.
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Scholastic Signs Riordan for Multiplatform Series
Scholastic has signed Rick Riordan, author of the bestselling Percy Jackson series, for an ambitious multiplatform middle-grade adventure series that debuts next September.
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Rove Auction Over
The hotly contested auction for a book by former White House insider Karl Rove has been concluded, and a decision could come within a few days.
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Crown Preempts Debut Compared to Larson
Crown has signed a high six-figure deal with screenwriter David Jaher, whose narrative style is being compared to bestselling Crown author Erik Larson. The Witch of Lime Street is set to be published in early 2010.
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Two Wins for Avery
Two Wins for Avery Jeff Galas at Avery won an auction for New York Times and BusinessWeek journalist Andrew Park's memoir Unchurched via agent Faye Bender, who sold world rights. As someone raised without a religious tradition, Park will recount his struggle to find a role, if any, for spirituality and faith in his life.
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Andersen Acquires Nylen for RH
Kurt Andersen, who took on an editor-at-large role at Random House in June, has acquired an untitled memoir by media entrepreneur Bob Nylen via David McCormick, who sold North American rights.
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Rove Closing in on Book Deal
A book deal is inching ever closer for former White House advisor Karl Rove; according to one insider with knowledge of negotiations, the decision is now down to two publishers.
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Riverhead Inks Mosley to Three Book Deal
Walter Mosley has signed with Riverhead for three new books; one a literary novel and two others that will launch a new mystery series.
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Hyperion Signs New Shriver
California First Lady Maria Shriver will publisher her next book, Just Who Will You Be with Hyperion under a deal just signed with the publisher's Bob Miller.
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The Most Remote Place on Earth
In Kitty Sewell's debut, Ice Trap (Reviews, Oct. 8), Welsh surgeon Dafydd Woodruff unearths some disturbing secrets in a Canadian Arctic outpost, where 14 years earlier he had served as a physician. How did you choose such a remote setting for Ice Trap? I love the Canadian Arctic, having lived in this region myself for three years.
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Howard Signs Barthelme
Howard Signs Barthelme Gerald Howard at Doubleday has acquired North American rights to a new novel by Frederick Barthelme titled Waveland; Jin Auh at the Wylie Agency made the sale. Set in a Mississippi Gulf Coast community still reeling from the impact of Hurricane Katrina, the book focuses on the relationships among an architect, his ex-wife and his new girlfriend, who may or may not have mu...
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Rove Close to Book Deal
The winner in the Karl Rove book sweepstakes is expected to be announced within a few weeks. The former top aid to President Bush was in New York last month and is believed to have received several offers.
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Glusman Wins Black Hearts
Glusman Wins Black Hearts Harmony’s John Glusman bested three other bidders in an auction for Time editor Jim Frederick’s first book, Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Disintegration in the Triangle of Death and the American Failure in Iraq; Elizabeth Sheinkman at Curtis Brown UK sold North American rights for strong six figures.
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