Showtime cancelled their series The Borgias (starring Jeremy Irons), but creator Neil Jordan is providing fans some closure via an ebook. THE BORGIA APOCALYPSE is based on Jordan’s script for a two-hour series finale that he never got to shoot (though apparently he says in the book that he had planned an entire fourth season). The 16,000-word ebook is published through literary agency Inkwell Management (which represents Jordan’s fiction). Harper UK is issuing the nine-title backlist of British fantasy writer Alan Garner in ebook editions for the first time on August 15. The house controls world English rights to Garner, […]
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Abrams announced a number of promotions in its marketing and publicity departments. Veronica Wasserman has been promoted to brand director, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a new position. In the adult trade department, Jennifer Brunn has been promoted to senior director of publicity and Claire Bamundo moves up to director, publicity and brand strategy. In addition, Marisa Dobson has been promoted to senior publicist and Merle Brown adds the responsibilities of manager, corporate events to her role as executive assistant to the ceo. Former Abrams executive director of publicity Katrina Weidknecht recently left the company after six years to move […]
Forthcoming: Malala’s Cover, Obama’s Interview
Little, Brown has released the cover for I AM MALALA: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban, the memoir from Malala Yousafzai (and Christina Lamb) that they will publish on October 8. Some time today Amazon is expected to publish a free Kindle Singles Interview ebook with their editor David Blum speaking to President Barack Obama following his Tuesday appearance at the etailer’s Chattanooga warehouse.
Amazon Chooses Fall Book Picks
Amazon’s website book editors, led by Sara Nelson, posted their Fall Books Preview, including their picks for “fall’s 20 big books” and 10 editors’ picks of “exciting under-the-radar books,” along with a variety of recommendations across multiple categories. Four of those top titles and another two of the editors’ picks, asterisked below, can be sampled right now in our free Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter ebook. Their top twenty big fall books, in alphabetical order: Scott Anderson, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA Margaret Atwood, MADDADDAM Lee Child, NEVER GO BACK Robert Dallek, CAMELOT’S COURT: Inside the Kennedy White House Helen Fielding, […]
Authors in the News: Galbraith FAQs; Ann Rule Sues Seattle Weekly; Pahlaniuk’s FIGHT CLUB Sequel; and More
The official website of “Robert Galbraith,” JK Rowling‘s crime-writing alter ego, now includes a FAQ addressing many of the questions that have emerged since the Sunday Times unmasked her identity earlier this month. She wrote THE CUCKOO’S CALLING under a pseudonym because “I was yearning to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback. It was a fantastic experience and I only wish it could have gone on a little longer.” Rowling says she had “labyrinthine plans…to conceal my identity” and “hoped to keep […]
Briefs: Banks and Perseus Funds Sue Frank Pearl’s Estate; German Publisher Is Rowling Winner; And More
The estate of financier and Perseus Books founder Frank Pearl, who died in May 2012, is being sued by Bank of America, TD Bank, Eagle Bank and even Perseus Funds for more than $50 million, according to the Washington Post, alleging he “sought to avoid payment to creditors by fraudulently moving $59 million in life insurance proceeds and other assets from his estate into Perseus Trust, which he had created for his wife” after being diagnosed with terminal cancer in November 2011. Bank of America seeks $22 million; TD Bank and Eagle Bank are asking for more than $16 million […]