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Crown Wins Beschloss Auction
Sean Desmond at Crown won an auction for a new book by acclaimed historian Michael Beschloss via Esther Newberg at ICM, who sold world rights.
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Larson Again to Crown
Larson Again to Crown Erik Larson has signed with Crown for two new books; Tina Constable negotiated the deal with David Black, and Larson's longtime editor, Betty Prashker, will edit. The first book, yet to be titled, is said to continue the mode of historical narrative Larson established in his previous books, and tentative pub date is fall 2010.
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A Prolific Life to the End
Upon his November 10 death at age 84, the provocative, prolific Norman Mailer left behind a huge body of work. The two-time Pulitzer winner published more than 30 novels, biographies and nonfiction works. The rights to Mailer's oeuvre largely reside within two major publishing houses. Picador has The Naked and the Dead (1948) and Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967) and v-p of marketing and sales Dari...
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Batchelor to S&G
Batchelor to S&G Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau has preempted a new book by former Riverhead author Stephen Batchelor, to be called Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist; Anne Edelstein made the North American rights sale. This will be a personal and historical look at who the Buddha really was, inspired by Batchelor's interpretation of the Pali Canon, the first written record of the Buddh...
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Follett Cashes In On ‘Century'
Ken Follett’s forthcoming trilogy, The Century, was expected to draw big foreign deals in Frankfurt as we reported back in early October. Now Writers House confirms the series has, and then some. CEO of Writers House Amy Berkower said Follett has thus far landed deals, in the U.S. and abroad, totaling $50 million.
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Swarm Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence Jeff Galas at Avery won an auction for National Geographic magazine editor Peter Miller's The Smart Swarm: How Ants, Bees, and Birds Teach Us to Cope with a Complex World via David McCormick at McCormick & Williams. McCormick turned down multiple preemptive offers before going to auction three days after submission.
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Alex Rodriguez Bio in the Works
Richard Ben Cramer, who clipped the wings of the sainted Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio in his last sports biography, is already at work on the life story of the latest—and lately departed—Yankee Great, Alex Rodriguez, for Twelve. And though Cramer promises not to do a “DiMaggio” on the temperamental star who is also baseball’s highest-paid player, he does see parallels between A-Rod’s just-announced free agency and the world’s oldest profession.
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Robinson Again to FSG
Jonathan Galassi has signed Marilynne Robinson's next book, Home, for publication by FSG next fall.
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Sterling Lord Trifecta
Sterling Lord Trifecta An auction conducted by Sterling Lord's Chris Calhoun for Mary Beth Keane's debut novel, The Walking People, culminated with Jane Rosenman at Houghton winning North American rights. Keane's story of Irish emigration from the early 1950s to present-day New York is said to be reminiscent of Edna O'Brien.
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Knopf to Publish Blair’s Memoir
The life and times of former British PM Tony Blair are headed to print, with Knopf set to publish in the U.S. No publication date has been set.
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PW Review Leads to Multimillion-Dollar Deal
Brunonia Barry, whose independently published debut novel, The Lace Reader, received a starred PW review in early August, now has a seven-figure world English rights deal with William Morrow for that book and a second.
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And the Oscar Goes To...
And the Oscar Goes to... Four days after submission, Brenda Copeland at Hyperion preempted Dr. David Dosa's Rounding with Oscar: Lessons Learned from a Cat on Aging and Dying; Emma Sweeney sold North American rights. Geriatrician Dosa first wrote about Oscar, the hospice cat at a Rhode Island nursing home with an apparent ability to predict when patients are about to die, this summer in the New...
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Iraq Preempts
Iraq Preempts Just before leaving Free Press to head Collins, Bruce Nichols made a six-figure preempt for The Whisperer's War, a memoir by the senior interrogator for the top-secret Joint Special Operations Command task force that tracked and killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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Rodale Signs New ‘South Beach’ Book
The 2003 book that made a posh Miami neighborhood part of everyday weight loss speak, The South Beach Diet, is getting updated. The South Beach Diet Supercharged, is scheduled for an April 2008 release from Agatston’s longtime publisher Rodale.
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Coffee House Scores Rights Deals for ‘Firmin’
A novel about a rat who learns to read in a bookstore has garnered the largest rights sales in the history of Coffee House Press.
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HarperOne Signs New Poitier Book
Fresh from the success of his bestselling Oprah pick, The Measure of a Man, Sidney Poitier has signed with HarperOne for Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter.
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New Series to S&S
New Series to S&S Amanda Murray at S&S has acquired U.S. rights to the first two books in a mystery series set in New Delhi and described as the Indian answer to Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling series set in Botswana. The books feature a fastidious sleuth named Vish Puri, and the first book is titled Vish Puri: The Case of the Missing Servant.
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Galassi Takes Debut for FSG
Farrar, Straus & Giroux head Jonathan Galassi has acquired U.S. rights to a debut novel that could be one of the bigger books at Frankfurt next week. The author is 31-year-old C.E. Morgan, and the book's working title is All the Living. After a submission September 20 to a selected group of editors, last Monday morning Trident's Ellen Levine had several offers on the table, eventually accep...
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Memoir in Verse
Memoir in Verse It's not often that a work of poetry will prompt an auction, but that's what happened last week for Frances Richey's second book, The Warrior, which Paul Slovak at Viking bought from agent Molly Friedrich. Richey's son is a 1998 West Point grad who has completed two tours in Iraq, and she will explore, through 28 poems, the agonizing that goes on inside a mother's head as her o...
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Random to Publish Mailer’s On God
When you’ve made a 60-year career out of writing provocative books on war, politics, culture and sex, what else is there to write about? If you’re Norman Mailer—married six times, with a reputation as bruiser, known for writing counter-cultural essays—one huge subject remains: religion.
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