Following the international success of her 2022 debut bestseller Lessons In Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus’s second novel is moving from Doubleday to Scribner, PL has confirmed. PECK & PECK “follows an intrepid recent college graduate in pursuit of the impossible dream: meaningful employment and a living wage in the one thing no one takes seriously–poetry.” Marysue Rucci and Nan Graham at Scribner, along with Nicole Winstanley at Scribner Canada, acquired North American rights, sold by Jennifer Joel at CAA, on behalf of Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown UK. German rights have gone again to Felicitas von Lovenberg and Thomas Tebbe at […]
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Easier Deal Reporting
The next time you fill out our deal report forms, you will notice that we have implemented a helpful auto-complete feature for all of the “dealmaker” entities — editors, imprints, agents, and agencies — to help you match your entry to the over 30,000 canonical name forms as we already track them. That will help avoid spelling errors, typos and a whole range of name variations for companies that deviate from our style sheets — which in turns helps us post your deals more quickly, and with greater accuracy and consistency! Please let the system do its work — which […]
Fiction Still Leads In Pre-Frankfurt Deal Period
As we noted earlier in the month, third-quarter dealmaking in the US remained fairly strong even as the consumer marketplace wobbled, with total deal reports gaining slightly, despite a modest pullback from record spending a year ago. In the more concentrated five-week-plus pre-Frankfurt dealmaking, we see similar trends, with publisher spending a little stronger than during the third quarter, though still backing down just a bit from last year’s FBF period. As has been the case for some time, adult fiction continues to lead the market — particularly among publishers’ largest investments — while adult nonfiction and children’s books continue […]
Third Quarter Deals Remain Strong
Overall deal reports remained strong in the third quarter, running ahead of the consumer marketplace, though there was some softening in what has been a long run of new records for major deals in particular and six-figure deals overall. After a soft second quarter (when deal reports declined 4.7 percent, due to a big drop in reports from digital publishers), third quarter deals were up 4.8 percent over the same period in 2024. Fiction remained strong, up over 9 percent, while adult fiction and children’s books declined modestly, and digital publisher deals recovered after a weak first half of the year. […]
Former President Joe Biden’s Next Memoir Reportedly Sold to Little, Brown
Former President Joe Biden is said to have sold a memoir of his presidency to Little, Brown “for an advance in the range of $10 million, according to people familiar with the matter,” the WSJ reports. The 82-year-old had indicated earlier this month at an event that he was “working my tail off” to write the book. As was the case in his previous book deal with Flatiron Books in 2017, Biden was represented by CAA. Neither the publisher nor the agency confirmed details to the WSJ, which says that Hachette Book Group acquired world rights.
Forthcoming: ‘Hostage’ by Eli Sharabi
Harper Influence will publish HOSTAGE by Eli Sharabi, on October 7 in the US. The book, which was originally published in Hebrew by Sella Meir Press, details the 491 days Sharabi was held captive by Hamas following the attack on October 7, 2023, and includes his transportation into Gaza, his experience with his captors, and the relationships he formed with other hostages.