Marshall's YA thriller optioned for film and TV

The team who launched the "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" franchises have acquired the film and TV rights to Rules for Vanishing (Walker) by Kate Alice Marshall. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-06 02:34:37 UTC ]
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Eight thrillers and mysteries to read this summer

‘Blacktop Wasteland’ author S.A. Cosby recommends books that will keep you on the edge of your lawn chair. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Embla snares Smith's 'gripping' thriller debut

A “heart-racing” thriller, How Far Will You Go, by debut author Dandy Smith has been signed by Embla Books.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Doubleday Acquires Two New Stacey Abrams Thrillers

Doubleday and Anchor Books have acquired North American rights for two new political thrillers by Georgia politician Stacey Abrams. Both of the new novels will feature Avery Keene, the star of Abrams's latest novel, 'While Justice Sleeps.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Legendary Comics Launches YA Graphic Novel Imprint

The graphic novel division of film producer Legendary Entertainment is launching a young adult imprint, Legendary Comics YA, along with a slate of five graphic novels. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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The plot of ‘The Plot’ — the best thriller of the year (so far) — is too good to give away

The new novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, the author behind “The Undoing,” is a sharp and twisty tale of literary paranoia. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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HarperCollins snares early Higgins police thriller trilogy

HarperCollins is releasing a previously out of print police thriller trilogy by The Eagle Has Landed author Jack Higgins as a single volume. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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‘Jaws at 35,000 feet’: the flight attendant whose thriller debut sold for seven figures

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YA Anthologies Bring Diverse Voices Together

We spoke with the editors of five recently published and forthcoming anthologies for teens about the origin of their collections, how they built their lists of contributors, and their hopes for these volumes as they reach readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Swift reprints Nomadland after film scores Oscar hat-trick

Swift Press is reprinting 10,000 copies of the UK edition of Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, after the film adaptation won three Oscars earlier this week. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Small Axe picks up 15 nominations for Bafta TV awards

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Five great new mysteries and thrillers to look forward to this spring

Find intrigue, suspense — and an escape! — in new books by Linwood Barclay, Nancy Tucker, M.L. Longworth and more. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Finding 'value in the valley': YA authors at a Festival panel on Black life and self-love

At a Times Book Festival panel on Black YA fiction, Dean Atta, Morgan Parker, Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi discussed stories of teens making it through. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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HCG acquires queer YA boyband romance from Gonzales and Dietrich

Hachette Children’s Group has acquired If This Gets Out, a queer YA romance from new author duo Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Wendy McMahon, Neeraj Khemlani Named Co-Chiefs of CBS News and CBS TV Studios

In a major restructuring, CBS is combining the journalistic and businesses resources of CBS News and the CBS Television Stations, and tapping a pair of executives from outside the company to jointly run it. Days after reports swirled that Susan Zirinsky would be stepping down as the CBS News... Continue reading at AdWeek

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Canada’s Wattpad Has First Film Project With Netflix

A day after Amazon announces its Kindle Vella serialization platform, the 90-million-user Wattpad arrives with its first serial-based film deal with Netflix. The post Canada’s Wattpad Has First Film Project With Netflix appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize split into adult and YA categories

The Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize, run jointly by UK indie Can of Worms and New York-based Leapfrog Press, is to split into adult fiction and young adult fiction categories this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Natalie Portman to star in film of Ferrante's Days of Abandonment

Natalie Portman is to star in a film adaptation of Elena Ferrante's second novel, The Days of Abandonment (Europa Editions). Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Park Chan-wook is directing a TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

Exciting adaptation news: A24 and Rhombus Media have optioned the rights to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning debut novel about a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who serves as a communist double agent after the fall of Saigon. The novel is being developed... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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The ‘GLLI’ Translated YA Book Prize Announces 2021 Brazilian Co-Winners

The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative names two winners for 2021, both translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Larissa Helena. The post The ‘GLLI’ Translated YA Book Prize Announces 2021 Brazilian Co-Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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