Little, Brown has made public the jacket for JK Rowling’s novel THE CASUAL VACANCY, publishing September 27. The length is now listed as 512 pages, and apparently Little Brown UK erroneously listed the character Barry Fairbrother as Barry Fairweather in the original press release. The audio edition will be read by actor Tom Hollander.
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Deluxe Edition of Paolini’s INHERITANCE; Godin’s THE ICARUS DECEPTION, Funded by Kickstarter
Christopher Paolini finished his Inheritance trilogy which turned into a four-book “cycle,” but Knopf Children’s still has more volumes on the way. They will publish a deluxe edition of the final book INHERITANCE on October 23, priced at $29.99 in hardcover and $15.99 in ebook formats. The deluxe edition will include “never-before-seen artwork by Christopher Paolini; an exclusive, full-color foldout poster by award-winning artist John Jude Palencar; a letter from Jeod, one of Eragon’s confidantes, summarizing life after the final scene of the series; a letter from Paolini to fans reflecting on the series, and a new scene within the text.” […]
Bookselling: Blurbs From Booksellers Spurred US Deal For Historical Thriller; Discounting Outlawed on New Books in Israel; and More
The WSJ looks at the publication path of Michael Ennis‘s forthcoming historical thriller debut THE MALICE OF FORTUNE, which Doubleday will release in September. The piece emphasizes how Ennis’ agent, Dan Lazar at Writers House, sent out dozens of copies of the novel (the WSJ said 48, but Lazar clarified to us that it was “over 60”) to booksellers by self-publishing bound galleys, with 23 of those booksellers – including Books & Books owner Mitchell Kaplan, Tattered Cover’s Sarah Harvey, and Jenn Northington at WORD — responding with enthusiastic blurbs. But equally important is that Ennis’s original draft, at around […]
Bradbury Backlist Will Be Digitized
William Morrow editor Jennifer Brehl tells Paid Content that the publisher has been at work on the “huge undertaking” of making the late Ray Bradbury’s backlist available as ebooks. “He knew we were going to do this” and had “agreed to it,” she says, adding, “I don’t want people to think he was this dinosaur because he had some opinions” about ebooks that changed late in his life. One of Bradbury’s concerns–library availability–never changed, and she pledges that the Bradbury ebooks will be available for library lending. Apparently part of his agreement reached last year to allow an ebook edition […]
People, Etc.
Natasha Trethewey has been named the newest Poet Laureate by the US Library of Congress. NYT Philip Roth has won Spain’s Asturias Prize, given to an author “whose literary work represents a significant contribution to universal literature.” The Overlook Press will publish The Russian Library, an “ambitious one hundred and twenty five volume series of translated Russian fiction, drama, and poetry”, over the next ten years, the publisher announced Wednesday at BEA. Overlook is working with (and is sponsored by) Read Russia on the project, which will feature classic and contemporary Russian works and launch in Fall 2013 with five […]
Upcoming: Deals for Carly Simon, Dolly Parton, Cissy Houston, Biz Stone
BEA is just a few hours old — and the show floor won’t even open until Tuesday — but for now some of the biggest announcements are in the deals department. Random House Publishing Group has acquired Carly Simon‘s autobiography, which will cover “the discovery of her life-altering stammer, her meteoric rise and unparalleled career in music, and her loves, including her marriage to James Taylor, with Simon saying “after years of keeping journals and writing lyrics for my tunes, I have developed a strong interest in seeing how my life might just string together in a longer form.” In […]