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Deals: Week of 5/2/11

By Rachel Deahl (@deahlsdeals) | 05/02/2011 @ 12:00AM

Hyperion Nabs Pirro and More.
Associated Press to Publish Wedding Book

| 04/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

The Associated Press is the latest organization to join the royal wedding book sweepstakes. The AP will publish a book of photographs next week using MyPublishers.com, the photo book self publisher. Twenty-one AP photographers are shooting the day’s events and will upload the selected pictures to MyPublisher over the weekend. Books will be available only through MyPublisher through print-on-demand with no retail distribution planned. Prices have not been set for the untitled book which will be available in hardcover plus a deluxe hardcover edition.
Parker Series to Continue at Penguin With New Writers

By Rachel Deahl | 04/27/2011 @ 12:00AM

In a deal cut by Robert B. Parker's estate, Penguin's Putnam imprint will continue to publish two of the author's most popular series -- Spenser and Jesse Stone -- under the authorship of writers Michael Brandman and Ace Atkins. The Spenser series debuted in 1974 and is made up of 39 novels; the Jesse Stone series began in 1997 and is comprised of nine novels.
Deals: Week of 4/25/11

By Rachel Deahl (@deahlsdeals) | 04/25/2011 @ 12:00AM

S&S Looks at Cy Country and more.
Deals: Week of 4/18/2011

| 04/18/2011 @ 12:00AM

Philomel Disappears with Levithan & Cremer
Rights Report: April 14

| 04/14/2011 @ 04:00PM

Dial has three deals to report this week. Nancy Conescu and Andrew Harwell have bought world rights to a debut picture book, Sometimes I Forget You’re a Robot, by ExplodingDog.com artist Sam Brown.
Deals: Week of 4/11/2011

| 04/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Putnam Puts a Ring on It and more.
Deals: Week of 4/2/11

By Rachel Deahl (@deahlsdeals) | 04/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

Scribner Checkmates 'Katwe' and more.
SMP Announces Title, Pub Date for Christine O'Donnell Book

| 04/01/2011 @ 12:00AM

St. Martin's Press has announced the title and pub date for its book from “Tea Party Darling” Christine O’Donnell after inking the deal last December. The house will publish Troublemaker: Let’s Do What it Takes to Make America Great Again on August 16, 2011.
Deals: Week of 3/28/11

By Rachel Deahl (@deahlsdeals) | 03/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

Hyperion Acquires Moehringer Novel and More.
Harper Updates Its Elizabeth Taylor Bio

| 03/25/2011 @ 12:00AM

Amid the flurry of media surrounding the death of Elizabeth Taylor, the inevitable newly repackaged and updated books on the legendary star are already hitting the market. First out of the gate appears to be Ellis Amburn’s The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor.
HarperCollins Acquires New Amy Tan Novel

| 03/24/2011 @ 12:00AM

HarperCollins Publishers has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to publish Amy Tan’s latest novel, The Valley of Amazement. In the U.S. the deal was negotiated by Daniel Halpern, president and publisher of Ecco, and by Tan's agent, Sandra Dijkstra of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
Kostova Moves to Ballantine

| 03/22/2011 @ 12:00AM

Ballantine Bantam Dell has acquired a new novel by Elizabeth Kostova, author of the bestsellers The Historian and The Swan Thieves. The publisher acquired North American hardcover, paperback, audio, and e-book publication rights for the new novel, which is not yet titled, from Amy Williams of McCormick & Williams.
Permanent Press Looks to Reprint Anti-Nuclear Power Expose

By Calvin Reid | 03/21/2011 @ 08:00AM

As Japanese authorities struggle to head off catastrophic meltdowns at their devastated nuclear power plants, the contentious debate over the future and safety of nuclear power is on the rise again here in this country. Originally published in 1980, investigative reporter Karl Grossman’s acclaimed anti-nuclear power expose, Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power (Permanent Press), has long been out of print but Permanent Press copublisher Martin Shepard is looking for publishing partners to bring out a revised edition.
Deals: Week of 3/21/11

By Rachel Deahl (@deahlsdeals) | 03/21/2011 @ 12:00AM

Other Press Goes Graphic and More.
Rights Report: March 17

| 03/17/2011 @ 04:00PM

Emily Meehan at Disney-Hyperion has acquired the seventh and final installment of Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series, along with two companion novels. Christy Ottaviano has bought world English rights to Lisa Schroeder's first foray into YA fantasy, Impossibly Small, for her imprint at Henry Holt.
Crown Signs Michelle Obama

| 03/16/2011 @ 12:00AM

Michelle Obama has inked a deal to write a book about the garden she planted on the South Lawn of the White House for Crown.
Random Acquires Al Gore's Next Book

| 03/15/2011 @ 12:39AM

Random House has acquired a new book by Al Gore, a yet-to-be-titled book on the political, social, and economic forces “shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades.” The book is the first acquisition for Jon Meacham, executive v-p, executive editor, since he joined Random earlier this year, and it is slated for release in 2012.
Deals: Week of 3/14/11

By Rachel Deahl (@deahlsdeals) | 03/14/2011 @ 12:00AM

Macmillan Kids' Nabs Schroeder Fantasy Effort and More.

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