You didn’t see it on most of the fall preview round-ups, but the press has ample space for anything Spears and the AP has gotten a copy of Lynne Spears’ book THROUGH THE STORM well in advance of the September 16 laydown: Spears presents herself as a loving, selfless (she gave up her job as a school teacher for her daughter’s sake) but increasingly powerless parent. After the jolting, but pleasant surprise of Britney Spears’ debut smash, … Baby One More Time, Lynne Spears says she felt she was losing control when a 1999 Rolling Stone magazine story featured a […]
Archives for September 2008
National Book Foundation Honors Kingston and Rosset
At this year’s National Book Awards ceremonies on November 19, the National Book Foundation will give its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Maxine Hong Kingston “in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a writer of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction.” Publisher Barney Rosset will receive the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. Executive director Harold Augenbraum says in the announcement, “This year’s distinguished honorees broke new ground in American literary publishing. Kingston exposed the great story of American immigration to a new, rich blend of fiction, memory, folk-tale and political idea. Rosset opened a […]
First Lady Bios, First on Kindle
Globe Pequot is releasing biographies of the two potential First Ladies Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama as Amazon Kindle exclusives in advance of the print releases. Elizabeth Lightfoot‘s Michelle Obama: Grace and Intelligence in a Time of Change is available electronically today, with an announced print release date of November 26. Alicia Colon’s Cindy McCain: Elegance, Good Will and Hope for a New America will be available on Kindle on September 15, but “will only go to print if John McCain wins the election.” Amazon release
Palin Book Moves to Tyndale
Tyndale House has taken over distribution of Epicenter Press’s biography SARAH: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down as of today. They are shipping what they say is a 250,000-copy printing (under a new ISBN of 978-1-4143-3050-1). Epicenter had been fulfilling through Graphic Arts Center Publishing and Ingram Publisher Services.Release
People and Prizes
* At Jossey-Bass, Karen Murphy has been promoted to senior editor for the business trade group. At Other Press, Megan Feulner has been promoted to associate publicist. Gregory Cowles has been promoted to preview editor at the New York Times Book Review. He’s been at TBR since 2004. New Regency “continues to expand and enhance its motion picture division” with new hires that include Michelle Kroes as director of feature and literary development. She will “focus on mining the literary community for film projects as well as acting as the contact for east coast talent.” Kroes has been a scout […]
Current Events Books that Don't Stay Current
This WSJ article must have been pretty easy to compile, spinning off of book titles that didn’t stay relevant for long, such as: Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust — And How You Can Profit From ItSpoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot SpitzerThe Fred Factor: How Fred Thompson May Change the Face of the ’08 Campaign Of course I bet we could come up with far more discredited article titles from the past couple years of the Journal…. One interesting stat: “Nonfiction sales in the U.S. have risen steadily to 311 million books in 2007 from […]