Two Roads has acquired Two Steps Forward, a novel from husband-and-wife team Graeme Simsion, debut author of The Rosie Project (Penguin) and Anne Buist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hot Key Books has acquired a new teen series from debut author and Foyles bookseller Chloe Coles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andersen Press has acquired a YA novel by debut author and bookseller Catherine Barter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chronicle Books has paid a six-figure advance for a picture book by debut author and illustrator Brendan Wenzel, following an eight-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lauren Parsons of Legend Press says that when acquiring a debut author for a UK list, one needs to believe the book can compete with the established brands. The post When Acquiring Debut Authors, Ask If They Can Compete appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK author Andrew Shantos tracks the elation, frustration and quantification of the first two months of publication of his debut novel, Dead Star Island. The post Down, Up, Down Again: The Diary of a Debut Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Temporary Bride by Jennifer Klinec (Virago) has been voted reading groups’ favourite read by a debut author following a poll to celebrate National Reading Group Day. The Reading Agency and The Booksellers Association revealed on Saturday (20th June), National Reading Group Day, that Klinec... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut author has arranged a marketing and publicity campaign she estimates is worth £200,000 to support the release of her book, and which her agent said “must be unique for a first-time author”. Janet Kelly’s Dear Beneficiary, about an older woman who has a relationship with a Nigerian man... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Newsflash! Sequel to Girl Online by Zoe Sugg is on its wayIt was the highest selling book for any debut author – selling a whopping 78,109 copies in its first week - and now Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online is getting a sequel. At the moment we don’t know much about “Girl Online 2” apart from the fact... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Jeffrey Stayton, whose first book is being published this February, recently sponsored a competition to select six independent bookstores as recipients of $250 grants. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
About 25% of the sales of a Holt memoir by a debut author have been in Iowa's bookstores, due to the heroic efforts of a Decorah bookseller Kate Rattenborg. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Humor is very likely on the menu at today’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, which is highlighted by three lively veteran children’s book authors and one debut author whose specialty is comedy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperVoyager has signed world English rights to two sci-fi/fantasy novels from debut author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House is launching a debut author with a new free-to-play online narrative game, Black... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut author who graduated from the celebrated Iowa Writers' Workshop has a seven-figure book deal.HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it will publish Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling, a fantasy trilogy inspired in part by Barack Obama.A person with knowledge of the negotiations said... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury’s Del Ray imprint has acquired trilogy The Osiris Project by debut author E J... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion imprint Indigo has acquired two YA books by American debut author, Tess Sharpe. Editorial... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has beaten off five other publishers in an auction for two novels by debut author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has signed a three-book crime thriller series written by debut author and former... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was a big evening for independent publishers at the National Book Critics Circle Awards this year. Copper Canyon Press, Graywolf Press, and Lookout Books scored wins in poetry, criticism, and fiction, respectively. Edith Pearlman, whose story collection Binocular Vision took home the fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]