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Simon & Schuster Acquires Paperback Rights to Swedish Bestseller Camilla Lackberg
Pegasus Books has sold paperback rights to Swedish international bestseller Camilla Lackberg's first three books to Simon & Schuster. S&S's Free Press and Pocket Books imprints acquired trade paperback and mass market rights to The Ice Princess and Lackberg’s next two books. Pegasus published Princess in June.
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Phoenix Author Tries Self Publishing
While Dan Smetanka is taking some Phoenix authors to Counterpoint another Phoenix writer is turning to self publishing. With a push from pop-psychologist Phil McGraw, The Last Day of My Life author Jim Moret founded Incognito Books to keep the book, originally released in January, alive. The media savvy writer,chief correspondent for Inside Edition, a frequent guest host on Larry King Live, and a contributor to CNN, understands better than most the importance of taking advantage of a big break and that is why he chose to publish the book to have copies ready for the July 9 airing of a Dr. Phil show he taped right before Phoenix closed.
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Rights Report: July 15
There’s a prequel to the Mysterious Benedict Society series, Marc Brown will illustrate a picture book for Little, Brown, and Ghost Huntress has been optioned for the movies.
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Knopf to Publish Sotomayor Memoir
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has signed with Knopf to write a coming-of-age memoir. Sonny Mehta, Knopf chairman and editor-in-chief, acquired world rights, including pre- and post-publication serial rights, English-language and translation rights, and audio and electronic rights, from literary agent Peter W. Bernstein.
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SMP Signs Pat O'Brien Book
Marc Resnick, executive editor at St. Martin's Press, has acquired an autobiography by Pat O'Brien. Andrew Morton, known for penning bestselling celebrity tell-alls, is working with O'Brien on the book.
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Pat Tillman's Mother to Publish with Blurb
Yesterday Blurb announced it will publish the paperback edition of Mary Tillman's Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman on July 31. It is the first project for the San Francisco-based do-it-yourself publisher with a "name" author. Leigh Haber, who was Tillman's editor for the hardcover published by an imprint at Rodale Press in 2008, was brought in as Blurb's paid consultant to rework the paperback with Tillman and her co-writer Narda Zacchino.
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S&S's Howard Books Signs Dave Ramsey to Co-Pub Deal
Bestselling author and personal finance expert Dave Ramsey has signed a two-book, world rights co-publishing agreement with the Howard Books imprint of Simon & Schuster. Based on Ramsey's EntreLeadership principles, the first book will be published in fall 2011. The deal is similar to the profit-sharing/partnership deal signed by Stephen King.
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Orphaned Phoenix Titles Picked Up By Counterpoint
At least two of the books left in limbo after Phoenix Books abruptly closed now have a new home. Heidegger's Glasses and 51/50 have both been acquired by Counterpoint.
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IPG Buys European Art Book Distributor
Chicago Review Press, Inc., parent company of Independent Publishers Group, has acquired Art Stock Books, a distributor of fine art and architecture books based in Stuttgart, Germany. According to IPG president Mark Suchomel, ASB distributes titles from 30, mostly European publishers, encompassing between 600 to 700 titles. All books are in English or dual languages.
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FSG to Publish Collection of New Yorker's '20 Under 40'
The New Yorker's much-discussed roundup highlighting young authors to watch, called the "20 Under 40" issue, is headed for book form. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which happens to publish five of the 20 writers included on that list, will release the full collection of stories (and, in some cases, novel excerpts) The New Yorker is running by the elite young crew. Most of the pieces will be running in the magazine's double fiction issue, which hits stands on June 14, while a few will run in issues appearing later in the summer. FSG's trade paperback original, 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker, is scheduled to go on sale December 7.
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Midlist Author Tries Hybrid Self-Publishing
Bob Katz seems like an author who should have no trouble selling his sophomore novel, Third and Long. His debut, Hot Air (Birch Lane), about a charismatic Latin American leader, was optioned by MGM. In between, Katz wrote two educational books: The New Public School Parent (Penguin), with Bob Chase, which led him to the story of a teacher and fourth grade student with an inoperable tumor, Elaine's Circle: A Teacher, a Student, a Classroom and One Unforgettable Year (Marlowe/Da Capo). Five years later it continues to hover in the top 75 titles on special education on Amazon. But when Third and Long was turned down, Katz resorted to a hybrid self-publishing model to bring out the story of a former football star hired as a plant manager in a small town, who must save the community.
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Konrath Moves 'Jack Daniels' Series to AmazonEncore
Amazon today announced that its publishing imprint, AmazonEncore, will release the newest book in J.A. Konrath's Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels series, Shaken. The Kindle version will go on sale in October, and the print version in February 2011. Hyperion had published the six previous books in Konrath's series about the Chicago cop, including Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, and Cherry Bomb.
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Newmarket Lands Book by Combat Vets Music Group
Newmarket Press has acquired the first and only book on 4TROOPS, a music group of four U.S. combat vets who served on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, whose debut CD has just been released by Sony Music. Newmarket will release the illustrated book, 4TROOPS: The Mission Is Music, in September, coinciding with the launch of the group's 60-city fall concert tour.
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Children's Rights Report: May 6
Smokewood Entertainment, the production company behind Precious, has bought film rights to Judy Moody. John Schultz (Aliens in the Attic) will direct, and Kathy Waugh and Judy Moody author Megan McDonald have written the screenplay. The The film begins production in August, and Candlewick will publish a Judy Moody movie tie-in program in spring 2011.
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Rowman & Littlefield, NBN Sign Up for DocZone ‘Pay Per Page'
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group and the National Book Network announced plans to become pilot clients of DocZone, an XML content management system, through a new pricing model designed for publishers.
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Deals
HC Kids' Gets 'Divergent' ; SMP Leads with Jensen; Rodale Gets 'Masterly' in the Kitchen; more.
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Deals
Wolff Takes Bregman; Waxman sells Oher; Morrow Gets Shut-In; more.
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Former ‘PW' Publisher George Slowik Buys Magazine
Publishers Weekly has been acquired by PWxyz, LLC, a newly formed company headed by one-time PW publisher George Slowik. The entire staff will be retained and the magazine will remain headquartered in New York City.
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Deals
NAL Gets Saint-ly; Houghton Gets Nerdy in Two-Book Deal; more
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Building Transmedia Properties
Starlight Runner's CEO, Jeff Gomez, spends a lot of time talking about "transmedia," a hybrid editorial, product development and marketing strategy that extends intellectual properties across multiple media and product platforms. In the contemporary world of product development and brand recognition, "transmedia" is a hot topic, and the results of this approach can be seen in blockbuster multiple-platform properties like the video-game Halo as well as multimedia publishing projects like HarperCollins's Amanda Project and Scholastic's 39 Clues.
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