Orion signs Winnie M Li in 48-hour pre-empt

Orion Fiction has pre-empted Winnie M Li's new novel Complicit, exploring questions raised by the #MeToo movement and the dark side of Hollywood, for a six-figure sum within 48 hours of receiving the manuscript. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-17 00:06:32 UTC ]
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Orion promotes W&N's Paul Murphy to editorial director

Orion Publishing Group has promoted three members of its Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N) non-fiction editorial department, including senior editor Paul Murphy, who has moved up to become editorial director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New character marks Winnie-the-Pooh's 90th anniversary

A new Winnie-the-Pooh character, ‘Penguin’, will feature in an anthology, due for release next month, marking 90 years since the Winnie-the-Pooh novel was first published. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Clare Hey joins Orion Fiction as publishing director

Clare Hey, editorial director at Simon & Schuster UK, is joining Orion Fiction as publishing director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Skyhorse Signs New Goodkind Thriller

Goodkind, whose primary American publisher is Tor, signed with Skyhorse, in part, because the indie press promised it could publish 'NEST' before the holidays, on November 15. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder Children’s signs Ruffles debut

Hodder Children’s Books, an imprint of the Hachette Children’s Group, has signed the debut novel by Faber Academy graduate Lydia Ruffles. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virago signs memoir of Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham

Virago has signed a "funny and intimate" memoir from actress and producer Lauren Graham, star of American TV series "Gilmore Girls" and "Parenthood". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon announces Fire HD 8 with quad-core processor and 12-hour battery life

Today, Amazon reveals details of the latest addition to its Fire range of tablets, the Fire HD 8. As the name would suggest, this is an 8-inch tablet and the key selling point is the fact that it is absolutely dirt cheap. Of course, this is not its only selling point: there's also 12 hours of... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2016-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion acquires 'East meets West' debut The Arrangement

Orion has acquired a comic tale of "East meets West", The Arrangement, by 27-year-old debut author Sonya Lalli - pitched as "Bend it Like Beckham meets Bridget Jones's Diary". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CUP and OUP sign China agreements at BIBF

Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press both signed co-operation agreements with China's largest trade publisher China Publishing Group at the Beijing International Book Fair last week. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter to Open Pre-Roll Video Ad Program to Influencers

Twitter is on a pre-roll.The service is opening its pre-roll video ad program to popular Twitter users, giving them a way to make money for their efforts.The ads play before the videos that people share on the platform, and they come with a skip button, much like the one on YouTube. Twitter has... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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South Downs landscape writing debut signed

Penned in the Margins is to publish The Old Weird Albion, a debut book by American artist and writer Justin Hopper. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Classics editor signs publishing deal for Clew

Penguin Press is to publish the first solo book from Henry Eliot, the editor-at-large of Penguin Classics and co-author of Curiocity (Particular Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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China's WeChat signs UK copyright protection pledge

Chinese instant messaging service Weixin has signed a “significant” agreement to better tackle copyright infringement with the China-British Business Council. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tinder Press signs deal with award-winning African writer Arimah

Tinder Press has acquired a story collection and debut novel from Lesley Nneka Arimah, winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sunday Times journalist Hornak signs two with Little, Brown

Little, Brown has acquired two books by journalist Francesca Hornak for a "significant" five-figure sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gordon Ramsay signs three-book deal with Hodder

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is publishing three new books with Hodder & Stoughton, the first of which, Gordon Ramsay Bread Street Kitchen, is due for release in October. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book by quadriplegic motivational speaker Fraser to Orion

Orion Non Fiction is publishing an "inspirational" book by a quadriplegic motivational speaker and "mouth artist", Henry Fraser. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jim Field signs six-book deal with Hachette

Illustrator Jim Field has signed a six-book deal with Hachette Children’s Group. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cornerstone editor Pathak to join Orion

Francesca Pathak is leaving Cornerstone after five years to become senior commissioning editor for crime and thrillers at Orion Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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