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Deals: Week of 9/20/10
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Rights Report: September 16
Disney and Offspring Entertainment have bought film rights to Ally Condie's Matched, a futuristic fantasy novel that Dutton is publishing in November, and Stacy Whitman at Lee & Low Books has acquired the first two novels for its Tu Books imprint.
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Houghton to Publish 'Mysteries of Harris Burdick' Spinoff
One Pulitzer Prize, five Newbery Medals, three Newbery Honors, two Caldecott Medals, one Caldecott Honor, three National Book Awards, and five Coretta Scott King Awards. This is just a partial list of accolades that have been bestowed upon the contributors to a book due from Houghton Mifflin in fall 2011.
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Deals: Week of 9/13/10
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Bloomsbury to Publish Memoir by Irish President
Bloomsbury USA has acquired North American rights to Everybody Matters, a memoir by human rights activist Mary Robinson. Agent Lynn Franklin, of Lynn C. Franklin Associates, brokered the deal for Robinson, who was also the first female President of Ireland, in office from 1990-1997.
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Deals: Week of 9/6/10
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Deals: Week of 8/30/10
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Deals: Week of 8/23/10
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Deals: Week of 8/16/10
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Putnam and Berkley Sign Two More From Cornwell
Crime writer Patricia Cornwell has sold two new novels featuring her character Kay Scarpetta to her longtime publishers, Putnam and Berkley. Putnam will publish the books in hardcover, and Berkley will do the paperbacks.
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Deals: Week of 8/9/10
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Beaufort Teams with 'American Spectator' for 'The Ruling Class'
Al Regnery has not been directly involved with book publishing for a number of years, but he is getting back into the business in a joint venture with Eric Kampmann, head of Midpoint Trade and Beaufort Books, to publish a book based on the cover story of the summer issue of The American Spectator for which Regnery is publisher. The 12,000-word article, "The Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution" by Angelo Codevilla, argues that the country is not divided along Democratic and Republican lines but by a class system in which a group of elites uses their power to promote their own agenda.
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Vince Flynn to Co-Write New Series with Brian Haig
Thriller writer Vince Flynn, author of Pursuit of Honor and other titles, has signed a two-book deal with Atria and Pocket, for a new series featuring a New York City anti-terror operation that Flynn will co-write with retired writer and U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Brian Haig. Flynn, whose latest novel, American Assassin, Atria will publish on October 12, said the series covers a story he has "wanted to tell for many years.... Teaming up with Brian Haig will afford me the opportunity to pursue this without keeping readers waiting for my next Mitch Rapp novel."
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Deals: Week of 8/2/10
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Deals: Week of 7/26/10
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Deals: Week of 7/19/10
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Deals: Week of 7/5/2010
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Ripken Steps to the (Children's Book) Plate
Disney Book Group has signed a deal with Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. for a middle-grade baseball series; Baltimore Sun, sportswriter Kevin Cowherd will coauthor. The retired Baltimore Oriole's first book, Hothead, about a third baseman with a problematic temper, will be published by Disney-Hyperion in winter 2011, with additional books arriving yearly. Disney-Hyperion editorial director Stephanie Owens Lurie did the deal for world rights with Ian Kleinert of Objective Entertainment.
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Macmillan Signs Rob Lowe Memoir
Macmillan is just now announcing an acquisition it made in the fall of 2009, when Steve Rubin, president and publisher of Henry Holt, bought Rob Lowe's memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends. The publisher said the manuscript came in as a "confidential submission" because Lowe is writing the book himself and all parties wanted to keep the work under wraps until the first chapters had come together. The title is now slated for May 2011, with Holt's Gillian Blake editing.
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Deals: Week of 6/28/10
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