Scholastic and Little Brown UK will publish the script book of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne, an adaptation and continuation of JK Rowling’s series, just after midnight on July 31. The play premieres on London’s West End on July 30 and features Potter as a 35-year-old parent, and was based on an original new story by Rowling, Thorne and John Tiffany. Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books imprint will publish the rehearsal script — which the press release positions repeatedly as “the eighth Harry Potter story” — as a hardcover in the US and Canada, while Little Brown UK […]
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Briefs: Harper Pairs with Temple Hill, Final Days for St. Mark’s, and More
Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey’s film production company Temple Hill Entertainment has a new publishing agreement with HarperCollins in which the producers will “generate original ideas and opportunities for books and series,” that Harper will publish under the Temple Hill Publishing banner. Petersen Harris at Temple Hill will serve as their vp, publishing (he ran the Penguin Development Group before joining the production company in 2014, and is the son of Susan Petersen Kennedy and Bruce Harris), and the producers were represented by Writers House in the publishing deal. Temple Hill has produced adaptions of both YA (The Fault in Our Stars; Paper Towns, The […]
Bloomsbury UK Withdraws Book On Church of England — To Little Notice
Last week, Bloomsbury UK recalled all review copies and withdrew from a planned February 11 publication That Was The Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People, by Andrew Brown and Linda Woodhead. Part of what’s remarkable is how little press coverage the unusual move drew. We first read about it through the Religion News Service, posting via the Washington Post. The primary article ran in Britain’s Spectator. A note to reviewers indicated that, “Following the receipt of a legal complaint, Bloomsbury are recalling all review copies of this book and ask you to immediately return the […]
Harvard Common Press Sold to Quarto; Put Me In the Story Expands at BN; More From Basford
Quarto has completed their acquisition of The Harvard Common Press, as of February 1, adding hundreds of titles to their backlist along with over 25,000 recipes. HCP will become an imprint of Quarto, with editorial and production run out of Quarto’s office in Beverly, MA and editorial director Dan Rosenberg keeping the same role. Harvard Common Press president and publisher Bruce Shaw and associate publisher Adam Salomone will no longer have daily operational positions, but will “remain in advisory roles with Quarto.” The two are partners at Salt Venture Partners, investing in food-related start-ups, and co-founders of The Food Loft. Shaw says in the announcement, “I’m pleased […]
Briefs: Foer’s Next Novel, Now From FSG; and More
Jonathan Safran Foer‘s first novel in 11 years, HERE I AM, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September (Hamish Hamilton will publish the UK edition on September 29.) The NYT reports the novel, which FSG acquired as part of a three-book deal (which also includes another novel and a work of nonfiction), “unfolds over a single month in present-day Washington, as a Jewish family with three sons falls apart after the parents’ marriage falters. While the family implodes, relatives from Israel are visiting for the bar mitzvah of one of the sons. The drama unfolds as a […]
Oprah Winfrey Will Launch New Imprint at Flatiron Books With Memoir THE LIFE YOU WANT
Flatiron Books will publish Oprah Winfrey’s forthcoming memoir THE LIFE YOU WANT in January 2017, the lead title in Winfrey’s as-yet-unnamed book imprint, expected to include several non-fiction titles per year chosen personally by Oprah. The book, which will be published simultaneously by Pan Macmillan in the UK, Australia, South Africa and India, promises to reveal “never-before told stories from her own experience and shines a light on how anyone can put their life on a new trajectory.” Winfrey said in the announcement: “All of my experiences, even the painful ones, have been there to teach me something about life. […]