Today’s theme is stories about forthcoming books and authors: Retired 91-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens discussed the book he is working on with The Atlantic: “I’m writing a book about the five chief justices that I’ve known, and I’ve got it almost done. I think I’m going to call it The Five Chiefs. It’s primarily personal recollections of each of the chiefs, and I also have some comments about some of their jurisprudence.” The Atlantic says “a book contract is in the works.”Atlantic Adam Mansbach‘s whimsical illustrated “children’s book for adults” GO THE F–K TO SLEEP has gone viral, “seemingly […]
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Birther Book Won’t Back Off
The industry around questioning President Barack Obama’s birth is hardly ready to close. World Net Daily founder Joseph Farah now claims to Michael Isikoff that the book his company will publish in May, Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President, isn’t really about the certificate after all. “Farah said the real issue is that Obama is still not eligible to be president because his father was Kenyan and his adopted father was Indonesian, making him a potential ‘dual citizen’ of two separate foreign countries. (Farah supplied no evidence to support his contention […]
Next Wimpy Kid Set for Some Time in November
Jeff Kinney’s sixth installment of the bestselling Wimpy Kid series Amulet Books will go on sale this November. There is no additional information being released yet on laydown, cover or title, except that it will have a “winter theme” and “features the Heffley family being snowed in.” Abrams says that Kinney’s books have more than 50 million copies in print in the US and Canada.
Robert B. Parker Estate Taps New Writers to Continue Spenser and Jesse Stone Series
Putnam announced that two series by bestselling mystery writer Robert B. Parker, who died in January 2010, will continue in the hands of new writers. Producer and screenwriter Michael Brandman will write the first new Parker brand book, ROBERT B. PARKER’S KILLING THE BLUES, which continues the Jesse Stone series and which will publish on September 13. Brandman already has considerable experience with the character as he co-wrote and co-produced the television movies featuring Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone. Ace Atkins, whose last few novels have been published by Putnam (and who begins a new series of his own with […]
Briefs: Coulter Mob; Fire Hit Book Cellar’s Building; Amazon’s Japanse POD; BN’s Sinking Shares
Crown has announced the title for Ann Coulter‘s latest, publishing June 7: DEMONIC: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America. If you need or want an explanation, the release is here. A large fire closed a large area in downtown Brattleboro, VT on Sunday night, striking the building in which The Book Cellar is located (along with nine other businesses). According to local reports the fire itself struck the fourth and fifth floors of the building the most severly. The Book Cellar’s Ana McDaniel told a local news station, “We are in shock right now. It is a bit of […]
Leaked Manuscript By ex-Palin Aide Will Publish in May
You may recall that in February, a manuscript by Sarah Palin’s former chief of staff Frank Bailey was leaked to the press, along with the pitch letter from the Carol Mann Agency. And author Joe McGinniss–whose own Palin book is set for publication this September–was at least one of the leakers. But today Howard Books announced they will still publish ahead of McGinniss, publishing BLIND ALLEGIANCE TO SARAH PALIN this May. The publisher says it will be a “chilling expose.”AP In other forthcoming book news, former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson said at a forum in China recently he […]