News of an author switching publishing houses often doesn’t even trickle out into public view until the most recent book arrives with a different colophon on the side of the hardcover or paperback. Reports on contract negotiations are even rarer – but for the big brand names, anything is news. Hence yesterday’s story at Deadline.com about negotiations between Janet Evanovich and St. Martin’s Press, which has published every Stephanie Plum novel since 1996 and just released the newest #1 NYT bestseller, SIZZLING SIXTEEN. Per the wispily sourced piece, SMP allegedly turned down Evanovich’s hoped-for contract extension of $50 million for […]