The Times’ consumer champion Laura Whateley’s debut book, a guide to money management, has been signed by 4th Estate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The debut book from Kristen Roupenian, whose New Yorker short story “Cat Person” went viral far beyond the scope of most short fiction when it was published earlier this month, has been sold to British publisher Jonathan Cape, the Guardian reports. Roupenian's short story collection, “You Know... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following her viral short story hit, Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This has been sold to Cape in the UK, with the US auction said to be topping $1mKristen Roupenian, whose short story about a relationship turned sour, Cat Person, set the internet on fire last week, has sold her debut... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has scooped the debut book from Kristen Roupenian, the author of 'Cat Person', a short story published in the New Yorker this week which went viral and triggered a wave of media coverage. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new biography from author Eric Metaxas, a debut book from Hillsong Church pastor Carl Lentz, and Bishop T.D. Jakes’ advice on making dreams come true are some of the big books publishing in October. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette will publish a children's book by Dermot O’Leary about a Ninja Cat called Toto. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penned in the Margins is to publish The Old Weird Albion, a debut book by American artist and writer Justin Hopper. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Screenwriter David Solomons has won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016 with his debut book, about an 11-year-old boy obsessed with comics Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unbound is crowd funding for a new book by ‘iconic’ producer and musician Matthew Herbert. Instead of producing a new record, Herbert’s debut book, The Music, will describe in “precise and almost poetic detail” how the record will sound. It will be divided into chapters the way an album is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has signed a debut book from mathematician David Sumpter, looking at the statistical background behind football. Commissioning editor Jim Martin signed world rights to More than a Game in a deal with Chris Wellbelove at Greene & Heaton. The book will published on Bloomsbury's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sugg's debut book, 'Girl Online,' now holds the record for the highest sales in its first week for a new writer in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
In his second novel, The Book of Joe (2004), Jonathan Tropper wrote about a novelist who fears the “sophomore slump” after his debut book becomes a huge bestseller and is adapted into a film.Fast forward a decade, and Tropper’s fiction becomes reality. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Times Book Critic David L. Ulin takes a look at Rebecca Gayle Howell's poems in "Render" and her definition of "apocalypse."On the back cover of Rebecca Gayle Howell’s debut book of poetry “Render: An Apocalypse” (Cleveland State University Poetry Center: unpaged, $15.95 paper), there’s a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]