Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand‘s new book UNBROKEN: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption has been announced for publication November 16 by Random House. (Seabiscuit was published in 2001.) They say it “tells the story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete and Army Air Force bombardier who, in 1943, crashed into the Pacific Ocean and floated for 47 days on a small raft, surviving shark attacks, a typhoon, and attack from the Japanese bomber. Captured by the Japanese military, he was sent to a series of prisoner of war camps, where he was held for more than […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Lost Symbol Paperback Set for October
Anchor has announced their intention to launch a four-million-copy mass upperback edition of Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL on October 19 at $9.99. Doubleday will follow the paperback release with a $35 hardcover edition of THE LOST SYMBOL ILLUSTRATED EDITION on November in a 350,000-copy printing. The publisher says THE LOST SYMBOL has sold over 5.5 million copies in North America to date.
Catalog News: Minor Details on Palin and Woodward Books
HarperCollins announced a pub date for Sarah Palin’s next book–November 23–and the title: AMERICA BY HEART: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag. And the AP covers Simon & Schuster’s catalog copy for Bob Woodward’s untitled September book on President Obama. “Obama has learned that he is not commander-in-chief of the economy,” the catalog writes. “Many of his high-profile domestic reforms — health care, education, and energy — were largely turned over to Congress.” The digital catalog adds that “Woodward provides the first inside account of President Obama wrestling with the fate of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Courtney Young has been promoted to editor at Portfolio, Sentinel and Current. The Copyright Clearance Center has named veteran attorney Iris Geik as associate general counsel. She was in-house counsel at WGBH and, since 1994, had served as an outside counsel to Reed Elsevier and other organizations on legal and copyright policy issues. Judges have been named for the 2010 National Book Awards and publishers can (and must) request entry guidelines. “The postmark deadline for the Awards entry form is June 15.” In vague news about forthcoming books, St. Martin’s will publish Andrew Morton‘s embargoed Angelina Jolie Bio on August […]
Bush In Washington Post, AP, and NYT Review
The pre-pub Laura Bush coverage continues. The Washington Post bought a copy locally, and shares more samples of the book than yesterday’s NYT report. “There is some startling stuff in here, perhaps more startling to me, who spent much of my time as a reporter covering Bush and as a writer researching her biography, searching for a shard or two of information that might reveal more about this intensely reticent and unassuming woman…. And there are some pointed choices and some unflinching honesty.” What isn’t in there? “In 432 pages, there are three brief mentions of Barack Obama.” The AP […]
NYT Breaks Laura Bush Embargo
Once again, the NYT has “obtained” (which doesn’t sound like “purchased”) a pre-embargo copy of Laura Bush’s memoir SPOKEN FROM THE HEART, in advance of the book’s May 4 publication. (Too bad it’s not an iPhone protoype, or Scribner would have a shot at getting it back.) While the paper’s story is attracting reasonable interest, we got a lot more Twitter-play yesterday by focusing on the question raised at Amazon’s Omnivoracious. They noted that their “fascination with the cover for Laura Bush’s upcoming memoir…touched a nerve with a few readers and emailers.” The big question: “I can’t decide if it’s […]