PRH Children’s acquires Vincent’s Fairy Tales for Millennials

Penguin Random House UK Children’s has bought world rights to 12 fairy tale retellings by Bruno Vincent, author of the Enid Blyton for Grown-ups series. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Bloomsbury buys last three Throne of Glass novels

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World Rights vs. Territorial Rights: What Are the Advantages?

Frequently, literary agents argue that selling the territorial rights for a book has advantages over selling world rights. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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25 Crowdsourced Covers For Literary Classics

Frankenstein’s monster never looked so good. A few months back, we wrote about a project called Recovering the Classics, which planned to crowdsource enticing new covers for 50 literary classics--great books like A Tale of Two Cities, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Frankenstein, and Pride and... Continue reading at Fast Company

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HC US and UK snap up The Luck Uglies

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Headline to publish Suchet on Poirot

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The Writing Life: Chris Colfer of 'Glee' inspired by fairy tales

The television star mines childhood fascination in writing 'The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell.' When Chris Colfer was just 20, he'd already been named one of GQ magazine's men of the year, having sung and acted his way into the hearts of America as Kurt, the high-pitched, openly gay brunet... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Fantasy and fairy tales for Gollancz

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Choc Lit snaps up debuts

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HC pays six figures for horse rescue memoir

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Angry Robot finds deals through Open Door

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S&S buys memoir by swimming legend Thorpe

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Virgin Books goes wild for David Essex

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Authonomy launches digital imprint

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Virgin buys rights to Material World

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Carluccio's memoir to Hardie Grant

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Goldman Sachs' O'Neill to Portfolio

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Portfolio buys Growth Map from Goldman's O'Neill

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HC buys Big Fat Gypsy memoir

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