Two months after announcing a November 13 release date in seven countries for the seventh installment of Jeff Kinney’s DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series, Abrams said Thursday evening the book will be titled DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE THIRD WHEEL and revealed the book’s cover. Amulet will issue a 6.5 million first printing, up from the 6 million opening print run for the sixth book in the series published last year. That book sold more than one million copies in its opening week, up 25 percent on the previous series entry.
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Summer Reading Roundups From the NYT, WSJ, USAT, NPR
We may be focused on the fall season (as our Buzz eBook sampler can attest) but the largest news outlets have all unveiled their summer reading roundups in time for Memorial Day Weekend. Janet Maslin returns in the NYT with her annual survey, gently chiding the selections, including new novels by Hilary Mantel, Gillian Flynn, Colin Cotterill, Karen Thompson Walker, and G. Willow Wilson, for not being as easily categorized as they once were. The WSJ makes more of the “genre-bending” nature of this summer’s selections, highlighting Walker’s “big debut” as well as upcoming books by Megan Abbott, Tana French, […]
Forthcoming: More Woodward, and TARP Inspector
The AP notices that online booksellers are listing Bob Woodward‘s latest, currently untitled (and undescribed) book as publishing on September 12 from Simon & Schuster. Free Press just announced that on July 24 they will publish former watchdog of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Neil Barofsky‘s BAILOUT: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street. They say “Barofsky recounts how his reports of a wave of criminal mortgage fraud and other abuses being perpetrated against homeowners in connection with programs that the Treasury itself set up were ignored time and again.”
Hyperion to Publish New Mitch Albom Novel, THE TIME KEEPER, on August 28
Mitch Albom will return to fiction with the August 28 release of THE TIME KEEPER, which Hyperion described in release as a “magical new novel” that “re-invents the legend of Father Time, and casts him not as an old, withered man, but as a gifted young boy who becomes the inventor of the world’s first clock.” When the boy is ” eventually punished for trying to measure God’s greatest gift, [he] is banished to a cave for centuries, forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more time, more minutes, more years. Eventually, with his […]
People: The Shack Author’s “Cross Roads” Set for November
Kimberly Snead his been hired for the new position of director, brand strategy at the Crown Publishing Group, reporting to vp, business development Ranjana Wingender. Snead was director, consumer marketing at Nickelodeon/MTV Networks. She will be “responsible for conceiving, creating, and executing brand development plans for a variety of authors” across the group. Daniel Nayeri has been named to the new position of digital editorial director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, overseeing the e-book publishing program for all frontlist and backlist HMH children’s books, as well as acquiring e-original content and developing multimedia projects. He was editor at HMH’s Clarion. […]
Amazon Publishing Gets North American Rights to James Bond Backlist
When Curtis Brown UK managing director Jonny Geller announced that Jonathan Cape had acquired a ten-year license to republish Ian Fleming’s James Bond backlist in the UK, he intimated there would be a new North American publisher in the works as well. As was announced Tuesday afternoon, that publisher is Amazon, through its Thomas & Mercer imprint, which will reissue the 14 Bond novels, as well as two non-fiction titles by Fleming, The Diamond Smugglers (1957) and Thrilling Cities (1963), in ebook and print formats starting this summer. (Penguin previously held world English rights to the Bond novels, but their […]