Hilary Mantel won the Costa Book of the Year Prize Tuesday afternoon for BRING UP THE BODIES, making her the first author to win the Booker and Costa for the same book. Judging chair Jenni Murray said the unanimous decision took “less than an hour”, telling the Guardian: “One book simply stood head and shoulders, more than head and shoulders … on stilts, above the rest. We had a really good discussion, like being at a high-powered book club, and I said, ‘OK, let’s have a vote on Bring up the Bodies’ and every hand went up.” Accepting the prize, […]
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S&S Will Publish Salinger “Oral Biography” in September
Simon & Schuster announced it will publish THE PRIVATE WAR OF JD SALINGER, a new “oral biography” co-written by film producer Shane Salerno and David Shields, in September. The project began life as a documentary more than eight years ago (and which Deadline first wrote about in 2010), and the resulting film, which includes interviews with more than 150 subjects, will air in January 2014 on PBS’s American Masters program and appear in limited theatrical release in September. In a press release S&S publisher Jonathan Karp said: “We are honored to be the publisher of what we believe will be […]
Stephen King Rides Another eBook Bullet; Trident Media Offers eBook Services to Other Agents; Rosetta Celebrates Growth Year
Stephen King has published a new personal essay, “Guns”, exclusively through the Kindle Store, as a 99 cent ebook. (The listed publisher is King’s Philtrum Press.) “I think the issue of an America awash in guns is one every citizen has to think about,” said King in the announcement. “If this helps provoke constructive debate, I’ve done my job. Once I finished writing ‘Guns’ I wanted it published quickly, and Kindle Singles provided an excellent fit.” Kindle Singles editor David Blum said King finished the essay “last Friday morning, and by that night we had accepted it and scheduled for […]
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At Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Emily Bell has been promoted to associate editor. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Sylvie Frank has joined Paula Wiseman Books as associate editor. Previously she was an editor at Holiday House. Jeanine Henderson has joined Aladdin as senior designer. She was previously a designer at Penguin Children’s. At Simon Spotlight/Little Simon, Jay Colvin joins as senior designer from FSG, while Liz Doyle has been named junior designer. Previously she worked for Hsu & Associates. At F+W Media, Stacie Berger has been promoted to vice president of communications. Author Joe McGinnis posted on his Facebook page that he has […]
Book News: A Lahiri Novel, Algonquin’s Teen Line, Adaptations and ALA Award Candidates
Pulitzer Prize winner for INTERPRETER OF MALADIES Jhumpa Lahiri‘s THE LOWLAND–her second novel after THE NAMESAKE–will be published on September 24 by Knopf (and by Bloomsbury UK). It’s the second book in their deal from 2006, reportedly for $4 million. The Fox Network has ordered a pilot for an adaptation of Lauren Oliver‘s DELIRIUM. Bookseller Mitchell Kaplan’s Mazur/Kaplan Company is executive producing with Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Television, with the pilot written by executive producer Karyn Usher wrote the pilot which Fox just approved. In the day’s most unusual adaptation news, Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winning duo WOLF HALL and BRING […]
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Richard Bach continues to recover and improve after “four months in a Seattle hospital with massive brain, chest and spine injuries”–and is well enough that he has finished a fourth part of Jonathan Livingston Seagull which he recently sent to his publisher, the AP reports. “In the new section, the flock struggles to find meaning. They first worship Jonathan, then write him off as a myth as years pass before his return.” Novelist Elif Shafak, called the most widely read woman writer in Turkey, was named as the London Book Fair’s Market Focus Author of the Day. The program “showcases […]