The PW Morning Report, Dec. 18, 2007
By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 12/18/2007 5:05:00 AM
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Scholastic Searches for Harry Replacement; Unauthorized Tom Cruise Bio; Rachel Ray Needs A Vacation; Tina Brown to HBO; Conrad Black Blasts Back; Coulter Book a Bust?; Book Sense Bestsellers; Heneage on Booker Panel; and The God Delusion Top U.K. Audio
Replace Harry Potter? Does Scholastic Have a Clue? In fact, they have 39, says the New York Times
Scholastic has a plan called "The 39 Clues," a series starting in 2008 that will feature ten books
Is Tom Cruising-For-A-Bruising?, asks New York Post’s Cindy Adams
Apparently, Cruise won’t be jumping on any couches when Brit author Andrew Morton—who did books on Princess Di and Monica Lewinsky—gets through with him; Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography will be published by St. Martin’s Press on January 15, 2008
Rachel Ray Signs New Deal With Food Network, reports the Hollywood Reporter/Reuters
I got three words for workaholic Rachel: Take A Vacation!
Tina Brown Strikes HBO Deal, reports New York Post’s Liz Smith
Bestselling Princess Di author makes first-look deal to bring projects and story ideas to HBO: "I loved and admired the network for a long time, so the chance to work for HBO was too good to pass up." To paraphrase Charles M. Schulz: "Good grief, Tina Brown"
Black Blasts Back, according to New York Post’s Page Six
You won't have Black to kick around anymore: Jail-bound felon hits back at former friends Kissinger and Buckley
Ann Coulter Book A Bust? asks Crain’s New York
The Wicked Witch of the Right’s numbers are down for If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans. Maybe book buyers have brains after all
ABA Releases Its 2007 Book Sense Bestsellers, reports The Book Standard
15 books are highlighted in six separate categories
Ottakar’s Founder James Heneage to Sit as Judge on Man Booker Panel
2008 marks the 40 anniversary of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction
The God Delusion Is Top U.K. Audio, says The Bookseller
Richard Dawkin’s atheist manifesto garners over 3,000 votes to cop top prize
