After 20 years of publishing new works by Stephen King, Scribner announced that it has print, ebook, and audio rights to “almost the entirety of the bestselling author’s body of work,” comprising 27 titles. (They have North American and open market rights for the licensed titles.) Nan Graham negotiated the deal for Scribner — as well as Gallery/Pocket and Simon & Schuster Audio — with Chuck Verrill at Darhansoff & Verrill. The agreement covers works including IT, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, Christine, Cujo, The Dead Zone, and Firestarter, and the first four volumes of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. The company will start issuing ebook and […]
Archives for October 2015
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At Kensington, Adam Zacharius has been promoted to general manager and will now have operations, social media and digital sales, and sub-rights reporting to him. Alexandra Nicolajsen moves up to director of social media and digital sales, and Vida Engstrand is now director of communications. Elizabeth Peskin has joined Random House Children’s as production supervisor. Previously she was a production associate at Abrams. Erin Kottke is leaving Graywolf, where she spent the past ten years, most recently as marketing and publicity director, to join the University of Minnesota as assistant director of PR in the academic health center. Kottke’s last day at Graywolf is October 16. […]
GREY Boosts Trade Sales in June
The AAP reported June sales from their approximately 1,200 reporting publishers, with sales turning positive, due almost entirely to adult trade paperback sales, no doubt the result of the June 21 publication of GREY by EL James. Adult sales of $377 million were up $26.6 million (or 7.6 percent), with trade paperbacks rising $27.6 million (or 29 percent) to $123.6 million. Per the year’s trend, however, hardcover sales remained weak, falling $18.1 million (or 17 percent) to $91 million for the month. Children’s and YA sales also did not benefit from the overall uptick, falling $3.1 million, or 2.6 percent, also weak in […]
Allende’s The Japanese Lover Tops November Library Reads List
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende is the No. 1 pick for the November Library Reads list. The list also includes an excerpt of Jason Gay’s Little Victories, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter ebook, as well as November #1 Indie Next Pick The Muralist by B.A Shapiro. The rest of the list features: Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love (Knopf) Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Crimson Shore (Grand Central) M.H. Boroson, The Girl With Ghost Eyes (Talos Press) Beatriz Williams, Along the Infinite Sea (Putnam) Jenn McKinlay, A Likely […]
People: Alexievich Wins Nobel, and More
Belarus journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, cited by the Swedish Academy for “her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Though Alexievich had been installed as the bettors’ favorite over the past few weeks, she is another instance of an under-translated Nobel winner in the English language: her oral history Voices From Chernobyl (1997) was published in 2005 by Dalkey Archive Press and then in paperback the next spring by Picador — and the book (with Keith Gessen’s translation) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Earlier, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the […]
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The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction was awarded to Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan (Harper Canada). Following the Giller Prize shortlist earlier in the week, finalists were announced for Canada Governor General’s Awards. Rachel Cusk‘s Outline is now a contender for both awards. Joining her on the Governor General’s nominees for English-language fiction are: How You Were Born, Kate Cayley (Pedlar Press) The Evening Chorus, Helen Humphreys (Harper Canada) The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman (Random House Canada) Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, Guy Vanderhaeghe (McClelland & Stewart) Kathrin Scheel has started a new foreign rights agency based in Hamburg, […]