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LaHaye Pens New Series for Zondervan
By Marcia Z. Nelson
Tim LaHaye, co-author of the megaselling Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels, has switched publishers and will partner with lawyer-author Craig Parshall on a new apocalyptic series. Zondervan said it had signed LaHaye and Parshall to produce The End, a series set in the near future chronicling political events leading up to the end times. The series kicks off with Edge of Apocalypse, to release worldwide April 20, 2010, with a first print run of 500,000 copies. Read on »

Worldcolor Has a Profitable Quarter
With earnings up despite a 22.5% decline in revenue, to $769.9 million, Worldcolor has made a “satisfactory beginning” after emerging from Chapter 11 earlier this summer, CEO Mark Angelson said in comments about third quarter results. The printer, formerly known as Quebecor, reported net income of $13.3 million in the most recent quarter compared to a loss of $64.2 million in last year’s third period; both quarters had one-time charges associated with bankruptcy issues. Read on »

University of Minnesota Press Has Weinstein Tie-in
By Claire Kirch
The University of Minnesota Press is going Hollywood. The Minneapolis-based university press announced Thursday that it is collaborating with the Weinstein Company to release a movie-tie-in edition of Christopher Isherwood’s novel, A Single Man, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1964, and reissued by UPM in 2001. The press has sold 10,000 copies of its paperback edition since its publication. Read on »

Financiers Turned Authors: 'The Good Men Project'
By Judith Rosen
When James Houghton and Tom Matlack, former partners in a venture capital firm founded by the latter, left the world of high finance and decided to collaborate on a book about the challenges men face, they soon learned that a book deal can be harder to negotiate than a multi-billion dollar deal. Despite the services of Boston literary agent Ike Williams of Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson, strong essays by 31 men, including photojournalist Michael Kamber in the Baghdad bureau of The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Charlie LeDuff with the Detroit News, and NFL Hall of Famer Andre Tippett, plus poems by Robert Pinsky, The Good Men Project was turned down by 50 publishers. Read on »

Quirk Launches Mash-Ups Site
By Rachel Deahl
Running with the success of its mash-up titles, launched with the surprise bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk Books has unveiled a Web site dedicated to the tongue-in-cheek series, QuirkClassics.com. The site, which went live November 9, encourages fans of P&P&Z and the mash-up craze to discuss the titles on message boards, post to fan forums, and talk to the series editor and authors. Event listings centered around the books, such as readings and author appearances, are also included. In addition, the Philadelphia-based press has announced on the site the next title in the Quirk Classics series, a prequel to P&P&Z called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls. Read on »

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Little Critter Comes to the iPhone
The iPhone is increasingly becoming a popular platform for children’s books. Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter is following Curious George and a handful of lesser-known characters into the Apple App store, getting his own iPhone app. Mayer has published over 150 Little Critter titles in book form with trade publishers. The first Little Critter title to be made available as an iPhone app is Just Me and My Dad, about a camping trip Little Critter takes with his father; it went live in the App Store last week. Read on »

Monday's Reviews Today: Ferris's Sophomore Novel & Another McMurtry Memoir
In Joshua Ferris's "remarkable" second novel The Unnamed, a successful corporate attorney and husband struggles with a strange walking disorder--he's compelled to move to the point of exhaustion--that upends his life. The premise allows Ferris to explore "themes of family, sickness, and the uncertain division between body and mind." And, in the latest of three planned memoirs from Larry McMurtry, Literary Life: A Second Memoir, the Texas author, in a style that is "charming and deceptively sophisticated," reminisces about everything from rubbing elbows with literary luminaries to his side business as a bookseller. Read on »

The PW Morning Report
Palin Preview; E-Book-Only Publishers; Kindle DX Rejected; Worst Books Blog; Themed Sony Readers; Australian Ruling: The Fallout. Read on »

AUTHORS ON THE AIR

Authors on the Air: 2012; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Ann Rule’s Everything She Ever Wanted
Tonight, Nightline airs a special which will feature Daniel Pinchbeck, author of both Toward 2012 (Tarcher, 978-1585427000, $16.95) and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher, 978-1585425921, $15.95), and John Major Jenkins, author of The 2012 Story (Tarcher, 978-1585427666, $25.95). Read on »

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Jordan Tops Bestseller Lists
Champagne flowed at a recent Tor gathering at the Flatiron Building to celebrate the publication and success of The Gathering Storm, which just took the #1 spots on the New York Times & PW bestseller lists. The title is book 12 in The Wheel of Time series, and is written by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Pictured (l. to r.) are: agent Joshua Bilmes; Tor publisher Tom Doherty; editor and widow of Robert Jordan, Harriet Macdougal; author Brandon Sanderson; and Sanderson’s editor, Moshe Feder.Submit you pictures here »