Wilbur Smith’s IP For Sale
The estate of global bestselling novelist Wilbur Smith, who wrote more than 50 books that sold 140 million copies worldwide, is selling all non-literary media rights (e.g. TV, film, theme parks, theatrical, gaming, and merchandise) to Smith’s IP. ACF Investment Bank, which handled the sale of rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, will broker the deal, and “they have already started contacting the logical international buyers and expect a strong response to this huge library of IP.”
Authors Talk: David Von Drehle
The Book Of Charlie: Wisdom From The Remarkable American Life Of A 109-Year-Old Man, (Simon & Schuster, May 23, 2023. Editor: Priscilla Painton. Agent: Esther Newberg, ICM.) David Von Drehle is a columnist for The Washington Post, where he writes about national affairs and politics from a home base in the Midwest. He joined The Washington Post in 2017 after a decade at Time, where he wrote more than sixty cover stories as editor-at-large. He is the author of a number of books, including the award-winning bestseller Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. How did you find your agent? I […]
B&N June Book Club Pick
Barnes & Noble chose Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea as their June National Book Club selection.
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Pen America, PRH Sue FL County Over Book Bans
Pen America, Penguin Random House, and a group of authors and local parents have filed a federal lawsuit against the Escambia County, FL school district. According to a release, this is “a first-of-its-kind challenge to unlawful censorship” as it brings parents, authors, and a publisher together to fight escalating book bans. The lawsuit argues that the county’s removal and restriction of books–the majority of which focus on “race, racism, and LGBTQ identities” and are by BIPOC and/or LGBTQ authors–from school libraries violates the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. The suit aims to have the district […]