“Funny and moving” addiction memoir to Two Roads

Two Roads has acquired rights to memoir of addiction and recovery by Salon.com’s Sarah Hepola. Publisher Lisa Highton bought UK rights to Blackout from Rachel Clements at Abner Stein. The book is described as “funny and moving”, and tells the story of how Hepola, “a single woman with a rising career in the media, was also a serious blackout drinker”. “As she stares down her past in sobriety, Hepola pieces together her story, along with the science and history of blackout itself,” Two Roads said. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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'Nine Continents' is Chinese author Xiaolu Guo’s resonant memoir about leaving her past

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Pan Mac wins Joe Biden memoir

Pan Macmillan has won an auction to publish the memoir of former US vice president Joe Biden in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Company spotlight: Dialogue Books taking the road less travelled

In three months at Little, Brown, Sharmaine Lovegrove has got off to a flying start, as Sarah Shaffi discovers. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Vanity Fair editor Porter moves to Quercus

Henry Porter, thriller writer and UK editor of Vanity Fair, has moved to Quercus. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Picador signs second medical memoir from Adam Kay

Picador has acquired a second memoir from comedian and TV writer Adam Kay, author of This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, in a "major" deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Samantha Hayes moves to Bookouture

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Jane Eyre Moves to Brooklyn In Boom’s Graphic Novel Adaptation

Screenwriter and 'Crazy Ex-girlfriend' executive producer Brosh Mckenna has adapted Charlotte Bronte's classic novel 'Jane Eyre,' into 'Jane,' an updated graphic novel coming in which Jane is now a young art student who lives in contemporary Brooklyn and works part-time as a nanny for the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Still Alice author Genova moves to Allen & Unwin

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Facebook moves to block offensive terms from targeted advertising campaigns

Advertisers on Facebook no longer can use offensive search terms such as “Jew hater” and “how to burn Jews” to target specific audiences, the company said Wednesday. The new policy comes a week after ProPublica published a story demonstrating how advertisers could reach thousands of Facebook... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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S&S Says 'What Happened' Moved 300,000 Copies in First Week on Sale

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Luath moves distribution to BookSource

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Bloomsbury's Megan Schaffer moves to JMP

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Forget the duopoly, Apple’s anti-tracking moves rattle digital media

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Crime writer A L Gaylin moves to Orion Fiction

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The Publishing Industry Knows ‘Winter Is Coming.’ Here’s How It Can Move Forward

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Open Road signs US rights to Adrian Mole ebooks

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