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Follett Cashes In On ‘Century'
Ken Follett’s forthcoming trilogy, The Century, was expected to draw big foreign deals in Frankfurt as we reported back in early October. Now Writers House confirms the series has, and then some. CEO of Writers House Amy Berkower said Follett has thus far landed deals, in the U.S. and abroad, totaling $50 million.
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Swarm Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence Jeff Galas at Avery won an auction for National Geographic magazine editor Peter Miller's The Smart Swarm: How Ants, Bees, and Birds Teach Us to Cope with a Complex World via David McCormick at McCormick & Williams. McCormick turned down multiple preemptive offers before going to auction three days after submission.
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Alex Rodriguez Bio in the Works
Richard Ben Cramer, who clipped the wings of the sainted Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio in his last sports biography, is already at work on the life story of the latest—and lately departed—Yankee Great, Alex Rodriguez, for Twelve. And though Cramer promises not to do a “DiMaggio” on the temperamental star who is also baseball’s highest-paid player, he does see parallels between A-Rod’s just-announced free agency and the world’s oldest profession.
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Robinson Again to FSG
Jonathan Galassi has signed Marilynne Robinson's next book, Home, for publication by FSG next fall.
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Sterling Lord Trifecta
Sterling Lord Trifecta An auction conducted by Sterling Lord's Chris Calhoun for Mary Beth Keane's debut novel, The Walking People, culminated with Jane Rosenman at Houghton winning North American rights. Keane's story of Irish emigration from the early 1950s to present-day New York is said to be reminiscent of Edna O'Brien.
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Knopf to Publish Blair’s Memoir
The life and times of former British PM Tony Blair are headed to print, with Knopf set to publish in the U.S. No publication date has been set.
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PW Review Leads to Multimillion-Dollar Deal
Brunonia Barry, whose independently published debut novel, The Lace Reader, received a starred PW review in early August, now has a seven-figure world English rights deal with William Morrow for that book and a second.
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And the Oscar Goes To...
And the Oscar Goes to... Four days after submission, Brenda Copeland at Hyperion preempted Dr. David Dosa's Rounding with Oscar: Lessons Learned from a Cat on Aging and Dying; Emma Sweeney sold North American rights. Geriatrician Dosa first wrote about Oscar, the hospice cat at a Rhode Island nursing home with an apparent ability to predict when patients are about to die, this summer in the New...
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Iraq Preempts
Iraq Preempts Just before leaving Free Press to head Collins, Bruce Nichols made a six-figure preempt for The Whisperer's War, a memoir by the senior interrogator for the top-secret Joint Special Operations Command task force that tracked and killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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Rodale Signs New ‘South Beach’ Book
The 2003 book that made a posh Miami neighborhood part of everyday weight loss speak, The South Beach Diet, is getting updated. The South Beach Diet Supercharged, is scheduled for an April 2008 release from Agatston’s longtime publisher Rodale.
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Coffee House Scores Rights Deals for ‘Firmin’
A novel about a rat who learns to read in a bookstore has garnered the largest rights sales in the history of Coffee House Press.
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HarperOne Signs New Poitier Book
Fresh from the success of his bestselling Oprah pick, The Measure of a Man, Sidney Poitier has signed with HarperOne for Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter.
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New Series to S&S
New Series to S&S Amanda Murray at S&S has acquired U.S. rights to the first two books in a mystery series set in New Delhi and described as the Indian answer to Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling series set in Botswana. The books feature a fastidious sleuth named Vish Puri, and the first book is titled Vish Puri: The Case of the Missing Servant.
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Galassi Takes Debut for FSG
Farrar, Straus & Giroux head Jonathan Galassi has acquired U.S. rights to a debut novel that could be one of the bigger books at Frankfurt next week. The author is 31-year-old C.E. Morgan, and the book's working title is All the Living. After a submission September 20 to a selected group of editors, last Monday morning Trident's Ellen Levine had several offers on the table, eventually accep...
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Memoir in Verse
Memoir in Verse It's not often that a work of poetry will prompt an auction, but that's what happened last week for Frances Richey's second book, The Warrior, which Paul Slovak at Viking bought from agent Molly Friedrich. Richey's son is a 1998 West Point grad who has completed two tours in Iraq, and she will explore, through 28 poems, the agonizing that goes on inside a mother's head as her o...
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Random to Publish Mailer’s On God
When you’ve made a 60-year career out of writing provocative books on war, politics, culture and sex, what else is there to write about? If you’re Norman Mailer—married six times, with a reputation as bruiser, known for writing counter-cultural essays—one huge subject remains: religion.
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Scribner Wins Auction for Mays Bio
Scribner has won a highly contested auction for an authorized bio of baseball great Willie Mays. Currently titled Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, the book is being written by bestselling author James S, Hirsch. Mays agreed to cooperate because he believes the work will define his legacy in baseball and beyond.
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Running Press To Pub New Book from America 24/7 Author; Invites the Public to Participate
Running Press is attempting to duplicate the success of 2003’s popular photography book America 24/7 and the A Day in the Life of... series. It's new book, America At Home, a similar project to 24/7, is helmed by one of that book’s authors, Rick Smolan. The publisher is asking the American public to submit photographs for possible inclusion in the book.
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Byrne by Bike
Byrne by Bike Talking Heads cofounder David Byrne has sold a new book, Bicycle Diaries, to Paul Slovak at Viking; new Wylie agent Scott Moyers sold North American rights. Byrne, for whom cycling has been a principal means of transportation in New York City since the early 1980s, has also pedaled around many of the world's major cities.
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Sinha Novel to S&S
Simon & Schuster's Dedi Felman has won the auction for U.S. right to Booker nominee Indra Sinha's Animal's People.
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