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Scribner Wins Auction for Mays Bio
Scribner has won a highly contested auction for an authorized bio of baseball great Willie Mays. Currently titled Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, the book is being written by bestselling author James S, Hirsch. Mays agreed to cooperate because he believes the work will define his legacy in baseball and beyond.
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Running Press To Pub New Book from America 24/7 Author; Invites the Public to Participate
Running Press is attempting to duplicate the success of 2003’s popular photography book America 24/7 and the A Day in the Life of... series. It's new book, America At Home, a similar project to 24/7, is helmed by one of that book’s authors, Rick Smolan. The publisher is asking the American public to submit photographs for possible inclusion in the book.
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Byrne by Bike
Byrne by Bike Talking Heads cofounder David Byrne has sold a new book, Bicycle Diaries, to Paul Slovak at Viking; new Wylie agent Scott Moyers sold North American rights. Byrne, for whom cycling has been a principal means of transportation in New York City since the early 1980s, has also pedaled around many of the world's major cities.
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Sinha Novel to S&S
Simon & Schuster's Dedi Felman has won the auction for U.S. right to Booker nominee Indra Sinha's Animal's People.
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Greenspan's Book Read From Left and From Right
Former Fed Chairman blasts Republicans and Democrats alike, says oil was a major motive for the Iraq War.
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Einhorn's First
Einhorn's First In her first acquisition for her new imprint at Putnam, Amy Einhorn preempted world rights to a memoir by actor Jim Beaver, Life's That Way, via Laney Katz Becker at Folio. Beaver will write about the year following his wife's diagnosis of cancer and his only daughter's of autism; the book germinated as a series of nightly missives to friends and family, gaining a readership of ...
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Barker Novel to Ecco
Darkmans, Nicola Barker’s epic 800+ page novel recently shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has been acquired for U.S. publication by her longstanding American publisher Dan Halpern at Ecco.
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Sinha Auction Underway
On the heels of its Booker shortlisting, U.S. rights to Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People are currently being auctioned, with agent Carole Blake reportedly entertaining bids from several houses.
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Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge Joey Kramer, drummer for Aerosmith since the band's founding in 1970, has sold a memoir, Little Boy Burning, to Roger Freet at HarperOne via Jill Kneerim at Kneerim & Williams. Kramer's account will cover years of wild excess, getting off drugs and his subsequent struggle with depression.
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AuthorHouse Acquires iUniverse
AuthorHouse, the Bloomington, Ind-based self-publisher backed by the private equity firm Bertram Capital, has acquired competitor iUniverse.
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Rodale and Al Gore Team Up for New Book in Spring ’08
Rodale hopes to duplicate the success of An Inconvenient Truth with The Path to Survival.
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Web Exclusive Review: Bill Clinton's 'Giving'
The book’s heart is in its many profiles of individual do-gooders—from Bill Gates to six-year-old McKenzie Steiner, who organized a beach clean-up.
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Two Debuts for Nelson
Two Debuts for Nelson Agent Kristin Nelson just concluded an auction for a debut novel by Jamie Ford titled Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet; Jane von Mehren at Ballantine won North American rights in this six-figure deal. The story is set in Seattle and told in alternating time periods—when a Chinese boy falls in love with a Japanese girl during the Japanese internment in 1942, a...
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Grossman to Viking
Grossman to Viking Time book critic Lev Grossman has sold a new novel, The Magicians, to Molly Stern at Viking, in an auction conducted by Tina Bennett at Janklow & Nesbit. In the book, a brilliant and bookish young man unexpectedly finds himself admitted to a secret, exclusive college of magic, where he learns about modern sorcery as well as friendship, love, sex, booze and boredom.
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FSG Signs New Friedman Book
Three-time Pulitzer winner Thomas L. Friedman has signed with longtime publisher FSG for a new book, Green is the New Red, White and Blue: A Manifesto. Jonathan Galassi bought North American rights from Esther Newberg at ICM, and Paul Elie will edit.
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Ousted U.S. Attorney to Write Justice Department Expose
David Iglesias, one of nine federal prosecutors fired by the Bush administration this winter, has signed a deal with John Wiley to write a book about his experiences as the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, including the events that led to his dismissal.
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Doubleday Lands Wolff Murdoch Bio
Doubleday has signed well-connected media columnist Michael Wolff to write a biography of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch that will include the backstory to his acquisition of Dow Jones. Murdoch will cooperate with Wolff and the book, to be edited by Phyllis Grann, is due out in fall 2009.
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Tony Blair Hires Agent Barnett
Former British prime minister's book will be "probably a memoir," says one source.
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McGuigan Again
McGuigan Again On the heels of his big Chris Farley auction, Peter McGuigan at Foundry has made a six-figure deal with Denise Silvestro at Berkley for !Satiristas¡ by Paul Provenza and Dan Dion. In the book, comedians George Carlin, Lewis Black, Janeane Garofalo, Sarah Silverman and others will sound off on everything from race to religion, politics to pornography.
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OJ Book: Publisher Proud, Booksellers Anything But
Eric Kampmann, head of Beaufort Books, today defended his decision to publish O.J. Simpson's If I Did It, telling PW that he is "very, very proud" of the project, which he says will include a new cover not bearing Simpson's likeness, an afterword by "a very famous writer" and possibly a new title.
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