Friday, May 03, 2013

Riverhead Acquires Book On Tsarnev Brothers & Mitch Albom changes publisher



Mitch Albom is leaving Hyperion, for Harper. The bestselling author has left his longtime publisher, signing a three-book deal with the HarperCollins imprint. The first title in the deal, set for fall 2013, is a novel called The First Phone Call from Heaven. Jonathan Burnham, senior v-p and publisher of the HarperCollins imprint, along with executive editor Karen Rinaldi, took North American rights in the deal from David Black at the David Black Agency. more »


Penguin's Riverhead Books imprint has acquired a book about the brothers who were recently charged with the terrorist attack in Boston. The currently untitled work, by Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, who wrote the 2012 bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, will, the imprint said, "explain who the brothers were, where they came from, what shaped them, and how they came to do what they appear to have done." more »

Dublin’s James Joyce Center Licenses Web Rights to ‘Ulysses Seen’ 

In what may be the beginnings of a new business model—at least for libraries and academic institutions—for supporting long-form serious comics narratives, Rob Berry, creator of Ulysses Seen, the online graphic adaptation of James Joyce’s literary masterpiece, has licensed the graphic work to the James Joyce Center in Dublin, Ireland, for online display, in addition to selling the center the original artwork in a separate deal. more »

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