Two weekend profiles of JK Rowling prepared the ground for Thursday’s release of THE CASUAL VACANCY, offering details on the book as well as the process that has guarded both the author and the book’s contents. Rowling told the Guardian, which ran their piece on Saturday, she dreamed up the idea for THE CASUAL VACANCY on a plane: “And I thought: local election! And I just knew. I had that totally physical response you get to an idea that you know will work. It’s a rush of adrenaline, it’s chemical. I had it with Harry Potter and I had it […]
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Ben Adams will join PublicAffairs as senior editor on September 24. Previously he was a senior editor at Bloomsbury. At Holt, Jason Liebman has been promoted to associate director of online marketing. Tal Goretsky will join Scribner as art director on September 17. He was most recently senior designer at Penguin Press. Mike Underwood has joined Angry Robot as sales and marketing manager. He was most recently at Wybel Marketing Group, representing publishers such as Dark Horse Comics, Night Shade Books, Felony & Mayhem Press, and more to trade and wholesale accounts across the Midwest. Tamra Tuller has joined Chronicle […]
Harper Announces Paperback Mystery Line, Bourbon Street
Harper Collins will launch Bourbon Street Books to publish “all types of mysteries,” featuring paperback originals, reprints, backlist titles, and reissued classics. The line starts with fall with two paperback originals: British author Oliver Harris’s debut THE HOLLOW MAN and Lynda La Plante’s seventh book in the Anna Travis series, BLOOD LINE, both publishing on October 23. Also in October they will bring back into print Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey with Harriet Vane series and in winter they will reissue four Mary Kay Andrews novels — Happy Never After, Homemade Sin, To Live and Die in Dixie, Every […]
As NO EASY DAY Publishes, New Account Says Book Written When Author Was “Slighted” By Other SEALS
Despite ongoing controversy and the threat of a government lawsuit (and Navy SEALS being pulled off active duty as a consequence), Dutton is publishing NO EASY DAY by “Mark Owen” (the pen name for the retired SEAL Matt Bissonnette) today as scheduled. But things got weirder over the weekend when a group of former Special Operations veterans released a short ebook of their own, NO EASY OP: The Unclassified Analysis of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden, as a $4.99 KDP exclusive. It claims Bissonnette (the Times, and the ebook, uses his real name throughout) was “willing to break the […]
Pentagon Says Former SEAL Owen Is In “Material Breach” and May Sue
The Pentagon has threatened to take action against former Navy SEAL Mark Owen–and potentially everyone involved in the publication process–for publishing without gaining the required clearances from the government ahead of time. Defense Department general counsel Jeh Johnson said in a letter obtained by Reuters: “I write to formally advise you of your material breach and violation of your agreements, and to inform you that the department is considering pursuing against you, and all those acting in concert with you, all remedies legally available to us in light of this situation.” Johnson adds that “further public dissemination of your book […]
Schwalbe’s THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB Tops October Indie Next List; Guardian First Book Nominees
The ABA has announced its October Indie Next List, which includes three titles — SUTTON by JR Moehringer, IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW by Mark Helprin, and LIVE BY NIGHT by Dennis Lehane — among the featured excerpts in our popular free ebook anthology of selections from over 30 big forthcoming books, BEA BUZZ BOOKS. Most of the excerpted titles release later in the year (and into next January), so if you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s as relevant now as it was when we released it before BEA. Pick up the “trade version” at the link above, or […]