As part of our continuing work on revamping the deals submission form, thanks to user feedback we have now launched a separate, dedicated reporting form for translation rights sales. The new form lets you report anywhere from 1 to 6 territory sales in a single report (and for more, just fill out a second form)….
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Oprah Pick, New Proposals and Untitled
Oprah Winfrey‘s latest selection for her book club (specially promoted through Amazon as usual) is Anthony Ray Hinton‘s The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row. A rare nonfiction pick, she says of the book: “This story reads like an epic novel and it is all true. You will, throughout the…
LBF: Nonfiction Tops Dealmaking
Consistent with our deal stats preview from Friday, the most notable trend from this London Book Fair dealmaking season is the surge of big deals — and “major” deals in particular — for nonfiction. And that’s without counting Hachette’s pickup of Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein’s next book, or other just-announced nonfiction from today including books…
London Book Fair Deal Trends: Market Swings Hard to Nonfiction
It’s that time again. We leave behind the luminous, rapturous accounts of heated snapping up of a few projects in advance of an upbeat rights fair to give you a look at the actual data on the marketplace for new book projects over the past five weeks, starting March 5. As usual, today we provide…
People, Etc.
Noah Eaker will join Flatiron Books as editorial director, reporting to Amy Einhorn, starting November 13. He has been executive editor at Random House. Jessica Williams has been promoted to senior editor at William Morrow. Sarah Armstrong has been promoted to client relations manager at Ingram Publisher Services. Vogue talks to Ghost, the “real-life New York book…
Briefs: New EL James, New Chandler Reps, Brzezinski Expands Concerns, and More
The surprise EL James book people at Penguin Random House have been whispering about was announced on Tuesday: DARKER: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian, continues the retelling of her trilogy from Christian Grey’s point of view that began with GREY. Vintage will publish the trade paperback on Tuesday, November 2. The publisher says they will…