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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Deals: 10/19/2009 by Rachel Deahl - 10/19/2009
Simon & Schuster nabs Pamela Geller, Hacking Work goes to Portfolio, Naval Institute Press gets Russian sub documentary tie-in, and more.
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Bantam Signs Koontz for New Frankenstein Novels By Lynn Andriani - 10/15/2009
Bantam has signed Dean Koontz for three new Frankenstein novels, which will be the first of the series—launched with two volumes in 2005—that will be published in hardcover. The first new volume, Lost Souls, will be published in May 2010 and begins a new story cycle that will continue with the two subsequent books, to be released in May 2011 and May 2012.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Writers House Announces Simultaneous Six-Country Release of Follett’s Next Novel By Lynn Andriani - 10/14/2009
The first major deal out of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair involves an international laydown of Ken Follett’s next novel, Fall of Giants, which will be the first title in Follett’s New Century Trilogy. The simultaneous six-country release—set for September 28, 2010—will coincide with the airing of an eight-hour Pillars of the Earth TV miniseries next fall.
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Deals: 10/12/2009 by Rachel Deahl - 10/12/2009
John Glusman, Victoria Alexander, Peter McGuigan, MacAdam/Cage, more.
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Pre-Frankfurt Deals: Two Iowa Writers' M.F.A.s Go at Auction By Rachel Deahl - 10/08/2009
Closing a five-way auction just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Brian DeFiore sold North American rights to 26-year-old Benjamin Hale's debut to Cary Goldstein at Twelve. Another Iowa graduate, Anna Keesey, just sold her debut novel, Little Century, at auction, to Courtney Hodell at FSG.
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Self-Published Guardsman Lands Deal with NAL By Rachel Deahl - 10/06/2009
Capt. Benjamin Tupper, a member of the New York National Guard who blogged about his experiences overseas, has just closed a deal with NAL for his book, Welcome to Afghanistan, Send More Ammo, thanks to an inadvertent plug from Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.
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Also in the Frankfurt Briefcase 10/05/2009
[In last week’s “Frankfurt Briefcase 2009,” the titles listed under the Sandra Dijkstra Agency are in fact being shopped by the Taryn Fagerness Agency. The titles being shopped by the Dijkstra Agency are below. For our full listing of Frankfurt titles, go to publishersweekly.com/FrankfurtBriefcase2009.
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Deals: 10/5/2009 By Rachel Deahl - 10/05/2009
Putnam's Neil Nyren, Hyperion's Leslie Wells, St. Martin's Jennifer Enderlin, Gotham's Miriam Rich, Henry Holt's Gillian Blake, and more.
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Garth Stein Moves to Simon & Schuster for Next Book By Rachel Deahl - 09/29/2009
Garth Stein, author of the bestselling The Art of Racing in the Rain, is leaving HarperCollins, which published Rain in 2008, for Simon & Schuster, which will publish his next novel in summer 2011.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Briefcase 2009 By Rachel Deahl, Liz Thomson and Nicholas Clee - 09/28/2009
Ann Brasheres grows up, Bret Easton Ellis heads back to his L.A. roots, Julia Childs's grand-nephew talks H2O, Julie Powell hits the butcher block, Eoin Colfer does his best Douglas Adams impression and George Romero lays down the rules of zombie-dom—that and more in PW's roundup of the big books up for grabs at this year's fair.
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Jimmy Carter Moves to FSG for White House Diaries By Rachel Deahl - 09/25/2009
Jimmy Carter has moved houses, signing to do his next book with FSG. (Carter's last book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, was published by Simon & Schuster in January.) John Sterling acquired world rights to the book--which will be the former president's White House diaries--and the house is planning to publish in October 2010.
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Ballantine Buys Sanford Memoir 09/22/2009
Ballantine Books has acquired the memoir of Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford.
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Deals: 9/21/2009 By Rachel Deahl - 09/21/2009
Harper, Atria, Disney-Hyperion, Da Capo, and more.
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Agencies Deepen Commitment to Publicity by Rachel Deahl - 09/14/2009
In an era when cutbacks have driven publishers to shrink already small publicity and marketing teams, a handful of literary agencies have hired full-time staffers to work on what was traditionally publisher-only domain. What's striking about the agencies that are hiring in-house publicists is that many are small, boutique firms.
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Deals: 9/14/2009 by Rachel Deahl - 09/14/2009
featuring Georgia Hughes, Amy Rennert, Lauren McKenna, Jennifer Joel, Helen Atsma, Stephen Power, more.
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