Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut ANT FARM and FREE RANGE CHICKENS author, and SNL writer Simon […]
Woodward The War Within Excerpts
Here’s the “home page” at the Washington Post for their four excerpts from Bob Woodward’s new book.Post
LAT Fall Books
The paper has an essay on forthcoming fall books as part of their overall fall culture guide. “If 2008 hasn’t already been the year of the spy, the fall list is going to make it so,” the piece begins. Updike, Morrison, DeMille, Gregory Maguire and Thomas Keneally all “return to old territory…. As we might expect, given the election, Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer is hardly the only presidential history to appear this fall…. Works in translation bring a thrill because they force a new point of view,” and the paper mentions Amara Lakhous’ “Clash of Civilizations […]
WSJ Heavy Hitters
There are no big surprises here, but that’s not the point: the WSJ touts fall releases from some of the best-known authors: Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Annie Proulx and Marilynne Robinson have new novels. So do Christopher Paolini (who wrote “Eragon”) and Candace Bushnell (“Sex and the City”). Prepublication reviews have been strong for Dennis Lehane’s “The Given Day,” a 700-page epic from the “Mystic River” author that includes characters such as Babe Ruth. The buzz is also rising for Philip Roth’s “Indignation,” the tale of a butcher’s boy in an Ohio college during the Korean War. In nonfiction, Bill […]
Personnel News
Pamela Clements has joined Hachette Book Group as associate publisher of marketing for Center Street and Faith Words, focusing on publicity and promotions. She spent 16 years at Thomas Nelson in several executive roles, most recently as publisher of the general interest & lifestyle division (formerly Rutledge Hill Press). At Pippin Properties, Samantha Cosentino has been promoted to rights associate after a year and a half with the literary agency as an assistant. She will be the point person for audio, video, stage adaptation, and foreign rights. Jessica Krakoski joins Basic Books today as a publicist. She has been an […]
Robert Giroux, Publisher, Dies at 94
The former publisher died in his sleep earlier today. The NYT writes: “If the flamboyant Roger Straus presented the public face of Farrar, Straus, Mr. Giroux, as editor-in-chief, was its quiet mover, working behind the scenes to shape its list of books and establishing himself as the gold standard of literary taste. The publisher Charles Scribner Jr., in his memoir, In the Company of Writers: A Life in Publishing (1991), wrote, ‘Giroux is a great man of letters, a great editor, and a great publisher.'”NYT