Best acquires 'gritty' historical saga for Transworld

Francesca Best has acquired three "gritty" historical saga novels by a debut author as her first acquisition for Transworld. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Chicago Review Press Acquires Amberjack Publishing

In a deal that closed September 13, Chicago Review Press acquired Amberjack Publishing. Based in Eagle, Idaho, Amberjack has a backlist of 63 titles, including 'Girl Boner' (2017). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld hires Tabitha Pelly

Tabitha Pelly will join Transworld to take on the newly-created role of senior publicity manger at Doubleday. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-15 16:50:04 UTC ]
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Fitzcarraldo Editions acquires 'radical' Hattrick debut

Fitzcarraldo Editions has acquired the debut book by Alice Hattrick, combining memoir, medical history and biography to uncover untold case histories of medically unexplained and invisible illness. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-15 13:30:42 UTC ]
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Historical Fiction Literary Agents Open to Submissions

Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find historical fiction literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly. The post Historical Fiction Literary Agents Open to Submissions by Robert Lee Brewer appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading at Writer's Digest

[ Writer's Digest | 2019-09-11 12:59:53 UTC ]
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Janine Giovanni leaves Transworld; promotions for Palmer and Chicken

Transworld's marketing director Janine Giovanni will be leaving the company in October after 30 years to set up a new coaching venture; Vicky Palmer and Tom Chicken have been promoted at Transworld as a result. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-09 08:23:54 UTC ]
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PE Firm Acquires Majority Stake in Industry Dive

Charlotte, N.C.-based private equity firm Falfurrias Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Industry Dive, the seven-year-old B2B media company whose online verticals span 19 different sectors including banking, construction, retail and supply chain. Contacted via email, Industry... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-09-05 16:26:03 UTC ]
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Jason Fox's latest goes to Transworld

Transworld will publish a second book by Jason Fox, author and star of the Channel 4 series "SAS Who Dares Wins", about resilience under pressure. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 20:00:21 UTC ]
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Saga writer Glenda Young strikes three-book deal with Headline

Headline has signed three “compelling” new novels from saga writer Glenda Young. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 04:54:36 UTC ]
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Arcadia Acquires Wildsam

Arcadia Publishing, the hyper-local book publisher, has acquired Wildsam, publisher of the Wildsam Field Guides series. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
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NAPCO Media Acquired by Printing Industry Trade Association

The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA), a printing industry trade group, announced this week that it has acquired NAPCO Media—the Philadelphia-based B2B publisher of Book Business, Printing Impressions and Publishing Executive, among a handful of other titles—for an undisclosed... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-08-08 18:53:40 UTC ]
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PRH Children’s acquires Vincent’s Fairy Tales for Millennials

Penguin Random House UK Children’s has bought world rights to 12 fairy tale retellings by Bruno Vincent, author of the Enid Blyton for Grown-ups series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-05 19:08:41 UTC ]
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Future Plc Acquires SmartBrief for $45 to $65 Million

Future plc has acquired Washington, D.C.-based online B2B publisher SmartBrief, the latest move in a string of purchases aimed at expanding the London-based media giant's presence in the U.S. Expected to close on Wednesday, the agreement involves an initial purchase price of $45 million—funded... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-07-30 16:09:27 UTC ]
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Getty Trust Leads Group of Foundations Acquiring Ebony Archives for $30M

A group of private foundations led by the J. Paul Getty Trust is set to purchase the complete photography archive of Johnson Publishing—which comprises some 983,000 photographs and 3.35 million unprocessed negatives from Ebony and Jet magazines dating back to 1948—after submitting a winning $30... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-07-25 17:18:02 UTC ]
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Bustle Digital Group Acquires Tech and Science Site Inverse

Bryan Goldberg is making additional moves in digital media. Goldberg's Bustle Digital Group has acquired Inverse, a tech- and science-focused website, the company said today. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. The acquisition represents yet another for Goldberg and BDG, which... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2019-07-23 17:51:26 UTC ]
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S&S UK acquires Hammonds Reed’s retelling of Rodney King riots

Simon & Schuster (S&S) Children’s UK has bought the UK and Commonwealth rights to The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed, which is set during the 1992 Rodney King riots. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-16 07:46:34 UTC ]
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12 Novels about Historical Women to Inspire a Better Future

The Spanish philosopher and poet George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As a genre, historical fiction allows us to shuttle back in time to stand in the shoes, clogs, chopines, and go-go boots of people—real and imagined—to consider the... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2019-07-15 11:00:13 UTC ]
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See-Saw Films acquires screen rights to Oseman’s Heartstopper

Production company See-Saw Films has optioned the screen rights to Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series of YA graphic novels. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-11 11:08:58 UTC ]
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PRH acquires novelisation of Netflix film The Prom

Penguin Random House has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to the novelisation of ‘The Prom’, a musical and film that launches on Netflix next year, written by Saundra Mitchell. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 10:57:52 UTC ]
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British Library acquires Granta magazine archive

The British Library has acquired the 40-year archive of Granta magazine featuring letters and papers from authors including Margaret Atwood, JG Ballard, Angela Carter and Kazuo Ishiguro. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 06:16:31 UTC ]
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Deep Vellum Acquires Two Publishers, Adds Imprints

Dallas-based translation publisher Deep Vellum has acquired the backlists of Phoneme Media of Los Angeles and A Strange Object of Austin, Tex., and is expanding into publishing works originally written in English. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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