Nearly a decade ago, Lisa Taddeo signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster to write about desire in America. Taddeo was on a hot streak: She was writing regularly for Esquire, New York, and other publications, including a reported fictional first-person piece told from the point of view of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-07-09 15:59:45 UTC ]
TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham has signed a five-book deal with student-run publishing house UCLan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-08 09:56:31 UTC ]
Despite awards and acclaim for his crime fiction, the impoverished novelist lost his home and was set to quit – then the phone rangIt was1.30 in the morning in Melbourne and Adrian McKinty had just got home after dropping off his last Uber customer of the night at the airport. His phone rang. It... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-07-08 06:00:17 UTC ]
Titan Books will publish the supernatural-themed debut novel by Cambridge University librarian and writer Marian Womack as part of a two book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-01 17:49:35 UTC ]
Holly Seddon has moved to Trapeze after signing a two-book deal with the Orion imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-25 02:03:06 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed a global two-book deal with American YA author Brigid Kemmerer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-24 21:35:35 UTC ]
Bluebird has scooped world right to two new books from Jack Monroe, including her first volume of vegan recipes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-23 23:20:24 UTC ]
Zaffre has bagged an "unbelievably timely" debut novel from Helly Acton, which has already been optioned for TV, in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-14 12:23:54 UTC ]
The MAGA-themed tome "is going to be the top selling book in the Beyond-Help section of Barnes & Noble," cracked one wag. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2019-05-22 13:55:58 UTC ]
The Iowa farmers behind the blog The Gingham Apron landed a book deal with Revell, Brazos signs an unconventional biography of a retiring clergyman, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
British comedian John Oliver skewered Mayor Catherine Pugh over the scandal surrounding her self-published Healthy Holly books, and he joined the ranks of people calling for her resignation during a segment of his HBO show Sunday night. On "Last Week Tonight," Oliver slammed Pugh for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-08 13:15:00 UTC ]
British comedian John Oliver skewered Mayor Catherine Pugh over the scandal surrounding her self-published Healthy Holly books, and he joined the ranks of people calling for her resignation during a segment of his HBO show Sunday night. On "Last Week Tonight," Oliver slammed Pugh for the book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh solicited a lucrative no-bid arrangement to sell copies of her self-published children’s books to the University of Maryland Medical System in “direct conversations” with the hospital network’s CEO, a top system official testified Saturday in Annapolis. Acting CEO... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, facing a call by Gov. Larry Hogan for a criminal investigation into the book deal that paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars, announced Monday that she will take an indefinite leave of absence because of her health. The Democratic mayor’s office issued a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mayor Catherine Pugh apologized Thursday for upsetting the people of Baltimore over a book deal with the University of Maryland Medical System, as she for the first time produced evidence that 60,000 of her “Healthy Holly” children’s books have been printed and distributed. But she also said that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The more we know about what other people earn, the more we can understand our own circumstancesI was paid a £12,500 advance to write my book, Open Up. Sharing this publicly, even as the author of a book about our emotional relationship with money, was initially petrifying, but I ended up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins have acquired world English rights to The Black Hawks by David Wragg, a fantasy debut in which a band of mercenaries take on corrupt religious authorities. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Walker Books Group has acquired Maggie O’Farrell’s first children’s book deal in a global rights deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) has won the five-way auction for Dougie Poynter’s non-fiction in a two book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Remember Milo Yiannapolous? The self-described provocateur who now lacks a job at Breitbart, a book deal with Simon & Schuster and a Twitter account can add one more deletion to the list: an Instagram post. Unlike Alex Jones, Yiannapolous has mai... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]