News covering book rights bought and sold, movie rights and foreign rights.
Deals By Rachel Deahl - 11/09/2009
Ryan and McNeil Team Up at Vertigo Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services sold a coming-of-age graphic novel called Bad Houses by artist Carla Speed McNeil and YA novelist Sara Ryan to Joan Hilty at DC’s Vertigo imprint. Hilty took world rights, and Mecoy brokered the deal with Ryan’s agent, Barry Goldblatt.
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Holt Wins Auction for New Elizabeth Kolbert Book 11/04/2009
Henry Holt executive editor Gillian Blake has won a hotly contested auction for New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert's new book, The Sixth Extinction. Blake beat out eight other houses for the book, which will be expanded from the author's May 2009 New Yorker piece of the same name.
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Deals: 11/2/2009 by Rachel Deahl - 11/02/2009
Harper Teen, Ballantine, St. Martin's, Minotaur, more.
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Deals: 10/26/2009 by Rachel Deahl - 10/26/2009
Ecco gets Leonard Cohen bio, Grand Central nabs a Food Network personality, Hyperion closes on Willie Geist's second book, more.
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HarperOne Signs Psychic Sylvia Browne 10/21/2009
HarperCollins's San Francisco-based imprint, HarperOne, has inked psychic (and bestseller) Sylvia Browne to a three-book deal.
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Simon & Schuster Signs Trilogy Adapted from iTunes App By Rachel Deahl - 10/19/2009
Simon & Schuster's Atria Books imprint has struck a three-book deal with F.J. Lennon for a series based on his popular video game app, Soul Trapper.
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Notes From the Bookroom Michael Scharf, Fiction Reviews Editor, Publishers Weekly August 21, 2007 Russian Chemistry
Serious Russian chemistry flares this Fall (which seems to have already arrived in ... More
