Former President Bill Clinton is at work on another book for his longtime publisher Knopf, this one about his post-presidential life — confirmed by a spokesman, and reported to the NYT by “people familiar with the project” as well. Paul Bogaards at Knopf “said there was still no timetable for publication and that while the book is about Mr. Clinton’s post-White House life it is still too ‘early to assess what ground will be covered.'” As usual, Clinton was represented by Bob Barnett at Williams & Connolly.
Deals
The Deal on Deals
As you may recall, last year we did a lot of work on our signature “deals” data stream — adding a number of new categories, revising our main deal reporting form, and creating a new translation rights deal reporting form. Now, by popular demand, we have posted an extensive list of tips on filling on the new forms, as well as explaining some of our policies and practices. Little section headers let you jump to deal report tips (including how to report film/tv deals; translation rights deal report tips (including how and where to note all the levels of sub-agents […]
Dealmaking Is Modest Heading into Frankfurt, As Nonfiction and Film/TV Gain
With the Frankfurt Book Fair now officially underway, it’s time for our regular look at dealmaking trends ahead of the show (in the five week period from the day after Labor Day to yesterday). This year’s deal activity has been in line with both recent trends — ahead of the London Book Fair in April major nonfiction deals were robust, with overall US deal volumes just below flat — and long-term patterns, which had pre-FBF deal totals peaking in 2013 and 2014, and declining slightly year-over-year since. As we have seen before, nonfiction volumes remained strong, as fiction deals continue […]
More Deals Details
Our busy stretch of refining and expanding aspects of our sprawling Deals database continues, and you will see the latest wrinkle in the next weekly round-up. The ever-growing section of international deal reports will now be presented alphabetically by territory (with sales in multiple territories listed together at the end). The new categorization is a direct outgrowth of the dedicated translation deal report form we introduced earlier this summer, which gives each transaction territory-specific tagging. Please note that all non-English sales should be reported through this form now — and all other deal reports should use the revamped regular deal […]
More Deals Improvements
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). We’ll be listing buyers by country, and there’s a dropdown menu to make that selection easy and consistent — and that will help us unlock some more reporting magic for you soon. Use the regular form for sales in the US, Canada and the UK. […]
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 book, try to imagine yourself — falsely accused, and in a 5-by-7 cell for 30 years. He is a remarkable storyteller and when you read it you’ll be swept away.” Book proposals making news including one still in formation from recently-departed national security adviser General […]