Sarah J. Maas’s A COURT OF SPLINTERED HARMONY sold approximately 1.7 million copies on its release date, Tuesday, October 27, Bloomsbury reports to Variety and has confirmed. They are counting preorders and opening day sales for English-language print and ebook editions in the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia. Their number does not include digital audio units, which were published by Recorded Books. The data likely comes from publisher Bloosmbury. Circana Bookscan will not publish opening week print sales data until late next week.
Catapult Agrees on Severance With Union
On the final day of operations for Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, and Hawthorne Books, the company has finalized its termination agreement with the employee union. Every union member will get at least 10 weeks severance and COBRA health insurance premiums paid for through the end of the year. Employees who have worked at the company for more than a year will get a minimum of 12 weeks of severance. For those with longer tenures, the base rate is six weeks of severance, plus three weeks per year at the company. Severance time multiplies by 1.5 for employees who worked there […]
Dolly Parton Memoir Sold to Grand Central, Page Six Says
Page Six reports that Grand Central acquired a posthumous memoir by Dolly Parton from Folio. Some sources said that the advance was $13 million, while another said “the Grand Central deal was made for a lower amount — but involved a bigger cut of the royalties than usual with a 50/50 split.” Page Six is very “unclear” on the book itself, so we can help a little there. Steve Troha and Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management told publishers in August in an email shortly after Parton died there were “several Dolly-blessed projects already in the works, including the autobiography […]
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The Edit: Featuring Kate Dwyer
Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about what everyone in publishing is reading. Best of the Year season has already begun with lists from Indigo and Publishers Weekly. This month, we talked to Kate Dwyer, publicity director at McNally Jackson & McNally Editions, and formerly a journalist covering books, about which forthcoming titles she’s most excited about. Dwyer highlighted some notable spring 2027 debuts. “Calling it now: with The Tantrum, out from Scribner in April (4/13), Jean Garnett will cement her status as the biggest essayist in America,” she writes. “And she’s the essayist we’ll need in 2027; with […]