Following the SEC’s charging biotech company Theranos and company founder Elizabeth Holmes with “massive fraud” earlier this month, Knopf is moving up publication of journalist John Carreyrou‘s BAD BLOOD: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup to May 21 (after originally planning an October release). The family of the late NYT fashion and society photographer Bill Cunningham was surprised to find a complete memoir in his estate. They sold it at auction to Penguin Press, which will publish FASHION CLIMBING on September 4. The book’s editor Christopher Richards tells the NYT, “It seems so unexpected,. He really didn’t divulge anything about […]
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Gay Bundo Beats Comey, So Far
Donald Trump’s renewed attack on justice lifted pre-orders for James Comey’s April 17 release A HIGHER LOYALTY, still at No. 3 on the Kindle bestseller list and No. 2 on Amazon’s print bestseller list this morning. But the former FBI director is outranked on both lists by another prominent Republican, featured in the parody release from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO. It’s the story of Vice President Pence’s family rabbit, “a Very Special boy bunny, who falls in love with another boy bunny.” The picture book from Chronicle is out of stock […]
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Leslie Meredith has joined Mary Evans as a literary agent, representing memoirs and works on psychology, science, health, nature, animal behavior, spirituality, and mind-body-spirit. She was most recently an editor for 15 years at Simon & Schuster imprints Atria and Free Press. Flatiron Books publisher Amy Einhorn has been promoted to executive vice president, now with all of editorial, both fiction and nonfiction, reporting to her. Melissa Edwards will provide consultation services under MLE Consulting, her new publishing contract service for literary agents and authors, while continuing as literary agent at Stonesong. Serena Longo has been promoted to marketing and events manager for […]
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Tina Jordan has left her position as vice president of AAP after 12 years, to “temporarily explore her lifelong passion of becoming a professional surfer.” BookEnds Literary has launched a children’s division, BookEnds, Jr. Miles Franklin Award-winning crime writer (and Gold Dagger honoree) Peter Temple, 71, died on Thursday of cancer. Forthcoming Candlewick will publish two-time Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo‘s eighth middle-grade novel, LOUISIANA’S WAY, returning to the world of Raymie Nightingale, globally on October 2, 2018. Awards The Booker International Prize announced its 13-book longlist, with the shortlist to be announced on April 12 and the winner to […]
Michelle Obama’s BECOMING to Publish November 13
Per in house reports for some time, Michelle Obama’s memoir will be published first by Crown rather than former president Barack Obama’s book. Titled BECOMING, Mrs. Obama’s book was announced for global publication in 24 languages on Tuesday, November 13. (Sorry, Bernie.) She will read the audio edition as well. Tour details will be announced later. In the release she says that it will “honestly reflect on the unexpected trajectory of my life. In this book, I talk about my roots and how a little girl from the South Side of Chicago found her voice and developed the strength to […]
Fall Announcements: Illustrated Hosseini Book for September, Albom for October, Sanders for November, and More
It’s the day to announce forthcoming fall books. Khaled Hosseini’s SEA PRAYER, a short, illustrated book written “in response to the current refugee crisis and the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey,” will be published September 18 by Riverhead (and August 30 by Bloomsbury UK). London-based artist Dan Williams will illustrate. Deneen Howell at Williams & Connolly represented Hosseini in the deals. Sea Prayer was first released as a Guardian virtual film on September 1, 2017 in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency (and the text is posted here). […]