First Pan Mac buy for Tonkinson

Pan Macmillan’s Carole Tonkinson has made her first acquisition for the publisher’s new non-fiction imprint. Tonkinson bought UK and Commonwealth rights to Sharon Salzberg’s Real Love from Joy Harris of the Joy Harris Literary Agency in New York in a joint deal with Bob Miller at Macmillan US imprint Flatiron Books and Margit Ketterle at Droemer Knaur in Germany. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bustle Digital Group Buys Nylon Magazine, Plans to Relaunch Print

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Paramount Pictures has bought film rights to Adrian McKinty’s upcoming thriller The Chain (Orion) in a seven-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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