Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh join forces

Curtis Brown has bought a 50% stake in fellow agency Conville & Walsh. Conville & Walsh... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Obituary: Brian Aldiss

Genre-bending author Brian Aldiss is remembered by his agent, Gordon Wise of Curtis Brown. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Curtis Brown leads the way in dealmaking as new lists thrive

The UK’s biggest literary agency, Curtis Brown, tops our rights league table for the first half of 2017, doubling the reported deals of the next biggest firm. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crain Communications Changes Family Ownership Structure

Crain Communications, the parent company of brands including Advertising Age and Crain's Detroit Business, has changed its ownership structure with the buyout of longtime President Rance Crain and his family.Crain Communications acquired Rance Crain's 50% stake in the company, giving Chairman... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2017-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Curtis Brown buys Ed Victor Ltd

Curtis Brown has bought Ed Victor Ltd, following the passing of agent Ed Victor. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two UK Acquisitions: Curtis Brown and Victor Ltd., Ingram and NBNi

The US-based Ingram Publishing Services adds a UK distribution operation, while the late Ed Victor's agency list in London moves to Curtis Brown. The post Two UK Acquisitions: Curtis Brown and Victor Ltd., Ingram and NBNi appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette and Curtis Brown lead dealmaking

Hachette, Hodder and Curtis Brown all once again top The Bookseller’s league tables in a second look at the British publishing rights deals landscape. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hannah Kent Rites third novel for Picador

Picador senior editor Sophie Jonathan has signed Hannah Kent’s as-yet-untitled third novel from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orenda Books joins forces with Curtis Brown

Curtis Brown Group will from now on handle translation and TV/film rights for Orenda Books, according to a deal signed by both companies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On eve of Costa awards, experts warn that top books prizes are harming fiction

The dominance of three honours in the UK can be prohibitively expensive for small publishers, and end up discouraging risk-taking on ‘difficult’ authorsCutting-edge British literary fiction risks being undermined by its growing reliance on a handful of powerful book prizes, a leading literary... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sphere acquires debut The Ruin by Irish author McTiernan

Sphere has acquired The Ruin by debut author Dervla McTiernan in a two-book deal with Curtis Brown. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Patrick Walsh goes solo with new agency

Agent Patrick Walsh is to leave the agency he founded – Conville & Walsh – to set up on his own in Soho, taking authors such as Gaia Vince, Andrew Wulf and Tom Holland with him. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC Worldwide invests in Curtis Brown parent company

BBC Worldwide is to take a 10% stake in Curtis Brown, which is set to "unlock further production opportunities" for the agency's talent. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cole’s Ragdoll purrs

Conville & Walsh has sold Daniel Cole’s crime series into eight territories, with more “imminent”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wise named new AAA president

Senior agent at Curtis Brown, Gordon Wise, has been elected president of the Association of Author's Agents (AAA), following the end of current president Sam Edenborough's term. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Economist appoints Tessa Jowell to board as Google's Eric Schmidt departs

Former Labour culture minister among new appointments along with co-founder of lastminute.com Brent HobermanThe Economist has shaken up its board with appointments including former Labour culture minister Tessa Jowell and Brent Hoberman, the co-founder of lastminute.com and Made.com, as former... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Herdman joins Hodder from Curtis Brown

Hodder & Stoughton is strengthening its fiction department by appointing Curtis Brown's Emma Herdman and promoting two people. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson and Dow Jones sell stakes in Russian newspaper Vedomosti

Sale marks end of an era for former FT owner as it exits newspaper publishing business after selling its stake to Russian entrepreneur Pearson, which recently agreed to offload the Financial Times, and the publisher of the Wall Street Journal have sold off their stakes in Russian business... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PW Talks with Global Kids Connect Speaker Ginger Clark

Clark, a literary agent at Curtis Brown Ltd. and speaker at PW’s upcoming Global Kids Connect Summit, talked us about what U.S. children's titles seem to be working well abroad right now, and the biggest mistakes publishers make in their approach to their foreign rights business. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agencies host online 'Discovery Day'

Curtis Brown and Conville and Walsh are to host a Twitter based event dedicated to "de-mystifying" the publishing process for prospective authors, called Discovery Day Online. Following the literary agencies’ Discovery Days in 2012 and 2013, held at Foyles Charing Cross Road, Discovery Day... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador acquires 'deeply personal' McCrum book

Picador has acquired a "deeply personal narrative" by Observer writer and former Faber & Faber editor-in-chief, Robert McCrum. Sophie Jonathan, editor at Picador, bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Every Third Thought: Observations on the Inevitable End-Game from Jonathan Lloyd at Curtis... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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