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.”
New Releases/Forthcoming
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 […]
Happier News: JK Rowling’s Novel, THE CASUAL VACANCY, Lands September 27
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Little, Brown UK announced the title and publication date of JK Rowling‘s novel for adults. Described as a “blackly comic” novel centered around a small town in which everyone is at war with each other that’s exacerbated by the unexpected death of a parish council member, THE CASUAL VACANCY will be released worldwide on September 27. Running approximately 480 pages, the hardcover is priced at $35 and the ebook at $19.99. The full description provided reads: “When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. […]
Forthcoming: The Last of the Last Lion Books
Eight years after William Manchester died at age 82, the third volume in his landmark “Last Lion” series on Winston Churchill will be published. Written by Paul Reid, working from Manchester’s beginnings, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 will be published November 1 by Little, Brown. Amazon is taking pre-orders for the ebook only at the moment, with an agency price of $19.99. The book is listed as running 1,729 pages. No print price is listed yet.