Authors: Waterstone’s “Novel”; Amis Stops Biography; Patterson Hits Seven-Figures for eBooks; Chinese Author Faces Threats; Stephen King’s Summer Reads

Unsuccessful at buying his way back into book retailing, Tim Waterstone will reappear in stores this fall as an author–of a “thinly disguised” novel IN FOR A PENNY, IN FOR A POUND from Corvus. The Guardian calls it “a searing treatment of the world of books that contains recognisable caricatures of several figures in publishing, […]