Mayo to focus on book deal and 5 Live film show as Whiley moves to an evening slotSimon Mayo and Jo Whiley are to leave the BBC Radio 2 Drivetime show, as part of a shake-up at the UK’s most popular radio station.Mayo has hosted the show since 2010, but tensions are thought to have arisen after... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has signed a book deal with Geraint Thomas, the winner of the 2018 Tour de France. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Catherine O’Flynn, whose novel What Was Lost won the first novel prize at the Costa Book Awards in 2008, has written a children’s book about two girls who want to be detectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sen. Kamala Harris of California, a rising star in the Democratic Party who is sometimes cited as a possible presidential contender in 2020, has a book deal. Penguin Press announced Tuesday that Harris' "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey" will come out Jan. 8. According to Penguin, Harris... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
An unagented former primary school teacher-turned academic Jane O’Connor has signed a world rights deal with Ebury Press for her “quirky, charming” up-lit novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Bristol librarian has won the inaugural Cheltenham Literature Festival First Novel competition with her “clever, pulsing story”, scooping a book deal with Borough Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Malala Yousafzai’s dad, Ziauddin Yousafzai, has signed a book deal with Penguin Random House UK imprint WH Allen. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
When I took to Slack a couple weeks back and asked Ad Age Executive Editor Nat Ives the question posed in this column's headline, he started typing without missing a beat: "Lemme see ... social (media) climbers ... VYPs (very young professionals) ... bowl cuts ... glue sniffers ... Benjamin... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
I B Tauris has inked a second book deal from Labour MP Rachel Reeves, about the 100-year history of female MPs, to be published on International Women’s Day. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children’s UK has signed a two-book deal with actor and comedian Ben Miller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury warns UK’s exclusive English rights across EU will end, with firms fighting US companies in an open marketThe next generation of British authors could struggle to land a book deal after Brexit, according to the publisher who launched Harry Potter writer JK... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Oswald, author of the Inspector McLean series, is to move from Penguin to Headline imprint Wildfire for his next four books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier Publishing imprint Studio Press has acquired three illustrated children’s fiction titles from TV presenter and Paralympian, Ade Adepitan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Children’s has acquired Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by debut author and illustrator Vashti Harrison as part of a two book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Susan Fowler, whose viral account of the harassment and discrimination she faced at Uber led to the ouster of its CEO and 20 other employees, and an investigation by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, is releasing a book about her experience. Fowler, who is trained as an engineer, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2017-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jake Williams, winner of the Business Design Centre’s New Designer of the Year 2017, has signed a three book deal with Pavilion Children's Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont Publishing has signed a new deal between Michael Morpurgo and illustrator Barroux based on the "epic", true story of Morpurgo’s uncles during World War Two. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
I Quit Sugar (Bluebird) author Sarah Wilson has moved to Transworld in a new book deal which will see her turn her "fierce investigatory skills" onto the subject of anxiety. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
James Comey, the FBI director whose firing by President Trump earlier this year set off a political firestorm, will publish a book next spring with Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. Comey served as FBI director from 2013 until he was fired by Trump on May 9, 2017. He learned he... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK has signed a new three book deal with Santa Montefiore. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]