Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 09/06/2011 - 10:04 Weidenfeld & Nicolson has already received "five-figures"-worth of orders for Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, following the debut novel's triumph at the Orange Prize for Fiction last night. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Major deals have become the new normal in book publishing, thanks to steeper competition for fewer high-profile projects Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Angry Robot has signed a six-figure deal for three more novels by Wesley Chu. The deal is the biggest that the sci-fi publisher has done. World English rights to the the new series, beginning with The Rise of Io, were signed from agent Russell Galen, Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow m.d. Kate Wilson has been named most inspiring digital publishing person at the FutureBook Innovation Awards. Wilson was named as the winner at a ceremony held at the FutureBook Conference in central London this afternoon (14th November), beating a shortlist that also included Unbound... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Journalist Shawn Vestal was recently named the winner of this year's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for his debut collection, 'Godforsaken Idaho.' We talked to Vestal about winning the prize, and his experience publishing the book with Amazon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Helen Macdonald has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is For Hawk (Jonathan Cape), making it the first time a memoir has won the award. Macdonald was announced as the winner of the £20,000 prize last night (4th November) at a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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St. Martin's Press has acquired the debut novel 'Everybody Rise,' by Stephanie Clifford, in a seven-figure book deal. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MacLehose Press has acquired three novels by this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature winner Patrick Modiano, as well as three novels by two other writers. The publisher bought British and Commonwealth rights from Gallimard to three books by Modiano. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editor Otto Penzler explains how he selected the 'locked-room mysteries' that are included in 'The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Glasgow Women’s Library and the Wigtown Book Festival are among the organisations receiving funding for the first time from Creative Scotland. The two groups join a number of other literature and publishing organisations awarded regular funding for the period covering April 2015 to March... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has signed a six-figure deal for two novels by TV presenter Dawn O'Porter. Commercial women's fiction director Kimberley Young signed a deal for world rights in all languages with Adrian Sington at Sington & Co Ltd. The books will be O'Porter's first adult novels. She has... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribe has acquired a novel by Lutz Seiler, titled Kruso, which was recently awarded the 2014 German Book Prize, dubbed Germany’s equivalent to the Man Booker Prize. Scribe acquired World English rights from Nora Mercurio at Suhrkamp Verlag at auction. Seiler is a poet and short-story... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rick Horgan, in one of his first major acquisitions since joining Scribner, has paid seven figures for U.S. rights to Angela Duckworth’s 'Grit.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This year, two novels have sold to U.S. editors, for a rumored seven figures each, just before the Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off on Wednesday. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber Children’s has acquired the rights to Dave Pigeon by Swapna Haddow, the winner of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Open science platform Frontiers has won the gold award at the Assocation for Learned &... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zimmer is the president and co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit social enterprise, First Book Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Each winner will receive $30,000, which will be presented on September 18 at a reception in New York City. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of the first Wilfred Owen international poetry competition will be announced at the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More prominent individuals from Scotland's book trade – including BookSource m.d.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A novel inspired by the daily toil of a shepherdess and a biography of a Booker prize-winning author win the UK's oldest literary awards. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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