News covering book rights bought and sold, movie rights and foreign rights.
Viking Wins Self-Published Stroke Memoir by Matthew Thornton - 05/07/2008
Viking's Clare Ferraro has acquired world rights to My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor's account of recovering from a stroke that she had originally released through lulu.com.
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Deals: Three More From Bourdain by Matthew Thornton - 05/05/2008
Three More from Bourdain Daniel Halpern at Ecco has acquired Anthony Bourdain's next three books in a North American rights deal with Kim Witherspoon at Inkwell. The first book, Cooks, is a follow-up to Kitchen Confidential, in which the author explores how the industry he loves—and the people in it—have changed, if at all, since his years in the kitchen, and tracks the bizarre chan...
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Portfolio Wins Spitzer Scandal Book By Rachel Deahl - 04/30/2008
A forthcoming book about Eliot Spitzer, by Fortune magazine writer Peter Elkind, has been acquired by Portfolio.
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Deals: S&S Wins Wall Street Tale by Matthew Thornton - 04/28/2008
S&S Wins Wall Street Tale S&S senior editor Colin Fox bested four other houses in an auction for Duff McDonald’s untitled book on Jamie Dimon; David Kuhn sold world rights. Derived from a cover piece McDonald wrote for New York magazine last month, the book will look at the career of the JP-MorganChase CEO—from protégé, then castoff, of Citigroup’s Sandy Weil...
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Sentinel Acquires Huckabee Book By Rachel Deahl - 04/24/2008
Sentinel has acquired a new book from Mike Huckabee. The title is slated for a November 2008 release.
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Spitzer Book Making the Rounds by Matthew Thornton - 04/23/2008
Representatives for Peter Elkind, Fortune writer and coauthor The Smartest Guys in the Room, are shopping a proposal of a book on former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
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Square One Signs Movie Deal with Ang Lee by Jim Milliot - 04/23/2008
Square One Publishers, best known for its nonfiction titles, has signed a deal with Focus Features and director Ang Lee for the two to develop a movie based on the publisher's Taking Woodstock, a memoir by Elliot Tiber.
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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
