Doubleday snaps up literary gem Diving for Pearls

Doubleday has acquired Jamie O'Connell's "stunning" debut Diving for Pearls, featuring intertwining stories "combining dark wit and devastating emotional truth".  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-07 01:11:51 UTC ]

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Bloomsbury snaps up climate change history

Bloomsbury imprint Sigma has snapped up Dr Alice Bell's book on the history of climate change. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-20 17:01:46 UTC ]
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Amazon Literary Partnership Awards $1M in Lit Funding

The Amazon Literary Partnership has awarded $1 million in support to 66 literary nonprofits, in addition to awarding grants of $120,000 each to the Academy of American Poets and to the Community of Literary Presses and Magazines. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Building a Literary Village (shelftalker)

Talking about family, identity, and the power of tears with Mitali Perkins and the Anti-Defamation League Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-17 12:00:58 UTC ]
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A Different Kind of Literary Festival

PEN World Voices marks 15 years of hosting literary events with a human rights focus. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Prime snaps up Merico's Mafia Princess

Amazon Prime Video has greenlit its first Italian Prime Original drama series inspired by true crime memoir Mafia Princess by Marisa Merico, published by HarperCollins in 2010. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking snaps up Menon's 'stunning' debut

Viking will publish Catherine Menon's debut novel, Fragile Monsters, in spring 2021.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Birne joins PEW Literary with Faber deal

Eleanor Birne has joined PEW Literary as associate agent this month, moving from David Godwin Associates, and has already done a deal with Faber on Amber Medland’s debut novel about mental health and the impact of the #metoo movement. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate snaps up 'unique' debut in six-way auction

Canongate has secured the first book by Northern Irish nature writer and essayist Kerri ní Dochartaigh following a six-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Agency for African MG and YA Fiction: Accord Literary

A Ghana-UK cooperation to support African writers led to the launch of a new literary agency for African middle-grade and teen fiction: Accord Literary. The post New Agency for African MG and YA Fiction: Accord Literary appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador snaps up Alzayat short story collection

Picador has acquired a collection of short stories from "really exciting talent" Dima Alzayat. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thomas & Mercer snaps up 'gripping' debut in two-book deal

Amazon imprint Thomas & Mercer has snapped up a psychological suspense debut by author Daisy Pearce in a two-book deal.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus snaps up trilogy from writing duo D K Fields

Head of Zeus has snapped up a "page-turning" new urban fantasy-crime trilogy by writing duo D.K. Fields. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quadrille snaps up Instagram star Watson's 'no-nonsense' cookbook

Quadrille has acquired blogger and Instagrammer Charlie Watson’s cookbook, Cook, Eat, Run. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray snaps up US presidential hopeful Buttigieg's memoir

John Murray has landed the memoir of Democratic mayor and US presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Piatkus snaps up Weiner’s first fiction novel in four years

Little, Brown imprint Piatkus will publish Jennifer Weiner’s first fiction novel in four years, later this year.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snap has three years to make a profit before it runs out of money

In spring 2017, global markets crowned Evan Spiegel the new boy king of tech. At just 26 years old, Spiegel took his photo-message and camera company Snap Inc. public for $24 billion, making it the biggest initial public offering in years. The unprofitable company was valued more highly than... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-19 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Snap has three years to make a profit before it runs out of money

In spring 2017, global markets crowned Evan Spiegel the new boy king of tech. At just 26 years old, Spiegel took his photo-message and camera company Snap Inc. public for $24 billion, making it the biggest initial public offering in years. The unprofitable company was valued more highly than... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-19 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Shannon's The Bone Season snapped up for TV

Samantha Shannon’s international bestseller The Bone Season will be adapted into a "major" TV series by producer Harriet Hammond of Lunar Park. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate snaps up paperback rights to Eaves' Murmur

Canongate has acquired paperback rights to Will Eaves’ prize-winning novel Murmur (CB Editions) about the last years of Alan Turing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Netflix Literary Connection

The streaming service is on a book-buying spree as it seeks more content for its ever-growing global subscriber base. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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