02/03/2012 @ 12:00AM
In a major deal, Riverhead’s Sarah McGrath bought the buzzed-about Depression-era debut novel by Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.
01/23/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Jean V. Naggar Agency has announced a new venture in which it will co-agent titles, handled by other agencies, for republication.
01/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
E-Reads, the backlist digital publishing house, has acquired U.S. print and digital rights to 15 titles by British science fiction author Brian Aldiss.
01/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
A few weeks into 2012, insiders are buzzing about a pop science book that Colin Dickerman at Penguin Press pre-empted last week after reading the manuscript overnight.
01/05/2012 @ 03:00PM
HarperCollins has announced it has preempted rights to a three-book middle-grade series by director Chris Columbus, to be called House of Secrets.
The Roundup for Deals
Publishing news from across the Web
James Franco has signed to do his first novel with Amazon Publishing.
HuffPo on two writers who said goodbye to Henry Holt and published a book about Rick Perry themselves.
Publishing Perspectives looks at the changing relationships between the three.
HarperCollins has signed up a memoir by the tennis star, due in June 2012. From AP.
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