Author Fredrik Backman recently announced that he is switching literary agents and will leave the Salomonsson Agency. Backman told Svensk Bokhandel that he terminated his representation early in the year and will be free to change representation this summer when his notice period expires. “After that I will move to an American agency. There is no conflict, it is a completely personal decision,” Backman wrote to them in an email. He will be looking for a new publisher in Sweden as well, after publishing seven books with Forum. “It was undramatic and entirely because of me,” Backman wrote. “I still […]
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NYPL Announces 2023 Cullman Center Fellows
The NYPL announced the 2023 Cullman Center fellows, including fiction writers Caoilinn Hughes, Amitava Kumar, and Catherine Lacey; nonfiction writers Jessica Bruder, Molly Crabapple, Lance Richardson, and Brenda Wineapple; poet Nicole Sealey; and translator Yasmine Seale. The NYPL selects “people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.” The fellows receive a stipend and an office at the midtown building, as well as access to the library’s research collections.
Visiting Sanderson In His Dragonsteel “Lair”
Brandon Sanderson’s TRESS OF THE EMERALD SEA, the first of the books he offered through his record-smashing $41 million Kickstarter campaign, publishes in its regular trade edition next Tuesday. As his employees pack March swag boxes for his over 38,000 of his backers (the Kickstarter had 185,000 backers overall), Esquire visits Sanderson in his “underground supervillain lair” in Utah. “To fulfill the Kickstarter, we had to double our staff,” Sanderson says, and his company Dragonsteel now employs 64 people. He tells the magazine, “The Kickstarter didn’t make us more money than just selling those books in New York would have,” […]
Tor Announces Dates for General Print Editions of Sanderson’s Kickstarter Novels
Tor Books announced publication dates for the “commercial editions” of the four novels that Brandon Sanderson first offered through his massive nearly $42 million Kickstarter campaign. Tor’s editions will release three months after each “premium edition” is delivered to Kickstarter backers. (Gollancz will publish in the UK.) Significantly, Tor is only announcing print, hardcover editions at this time. eBook and audiobook versions are only available through Kickstarter. Tor will publish quarterly, starting with TRESS OF THE EMERALD SEA on April 4, 2023.
Prince Harry’s Memoir Said to be Set for Publication on January 10, 2023
Prince Harry’s long awaited memoir, the subject of near endless speculation and rumor over the past few months, is said to now have a firm publication date of January 10, 2023, “according to industry executives” who spoke to the NYT. Everything else in their story recapitulates previous reporting. The book was originally hoped for in “late 2022.” Netflix reportedly postponed a documentary featuring Harry and his wife Meaghan, produced by the couple’s Archewell Productions and Netflix, originally said to stream in December, following the new season of Netflix’s The Crown. But Netflix continues to insist, “There’s never been any documentary […]
Wylie Reports on Rushdie’s Wounds, Tells Tales About The Trial
Spanish newspaper El Pais interviewed Andrew Wylie at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where he reported the sad news that Salman Rushdie has “lost the sight of one eye” and “one hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut.” Wylie underscored, “it was a brutal attack” and Rushdie “has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso.” More broadly, the full interview is classic Wylie. He provides a colorful account of what he believes he said in court during the Penguin Random House antitrust trial: “The mistake the Department of Justice made was they were talking about […]