Book Biz Viking Buys Author Danielle Trussoni’s First Novel By Jason Boog on Jan. 29, 2009 - 4:23 PM Danielle Trussoni landed one of the first big book deals of the new year yesterday, selling Angelology to Viking for a “high six figure” deal. According to the NY Observer, the book could go to two different editors ...
Book Biz Anthology of Great Zombie Literature By Jason Boog on Jan. 29, 2009 - 3:23 PM Inspired by GalleyCat’s post about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a number of Jezebel readers have suggested new literary classics that could use an attack from the bloodthirsty undead. In June 2009, author Seth Grahame-Sm ...
Adaptation Neil Jordan To Direct Neil Gaiman Book By Jason Boog on Jan. 29, 2009 - 2:23 PM Novelist Neil Gaiman, fresh off his Newbery medal win for The Graveyard Book, announced that director Neil Jordan will adapt and direct the film version of that award-winning novel. Gaiman made the announcement during a Today Show ...
Digital Cell Phone Novelist Wins $1,000 By Jason Boog on Jan. 29, 2009 - 1:23 PM Novelist Saoirse Redgrave has won Textnovel’s $1,000 prize for 13 to Life: a Werewolf’s Tale–a free novel serialized for the cell phone. As GalleyCat reported earlier this week, some 86 percent of Japanese high s ...
Reviews Meet Benjamin Moser, Harper’s New “New Books” Columnist By Jason Boog on Jan. 29, 2009 - 11:23 AM Last night Harper’s Magazine threw a party welcoming Benjamin Moser as the New Books columnist. GalleyCat caught up with Moser at the party, getting his take on the book industry, an introduction to the work-load of a Harper ...
Authors Stephenie Meyer Continues To Avoid Leaked Sequel By Jason Boog on Jan. 29, 2009 - 10:23 AM Following an online leak of her upcoming Twilight manuscript, Stephenie Meyer has stopped working on the sequel to her bestselling vampire series. In August 2008, a draft of Midnight Sun (the fifth book in the Twilight series) sho ...
Digital Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Agent Scores E-Book Deal By Jason Boog on Jan. 29, 2009 - 9:23 AM Carmen Balcells, the agent supporting Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela, has bypassed publishers and struck a deal to publish both Nobel laureates directly through the Spanish digital book company, leer-e. The books reta ...
Authors Words Are Not Enough to Express the Loss By Neal on Jan. 29, 2009 - 8:00 AM Yesterday, we told you about the memorials to John Updike on Twitter; this morning, we’d like to spotlight the tribute paid by Omaha World-Herald editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba. (We’ve met Koterba through our involv ...
Authors Jane Austen Versus Zombies By Jason Boog on Jan. 28, 2009 - 5:23 PM In June 2009, author Seth Grahame-Smith will re-visit Jane Austen’s classic novel with a horrific twist: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The Quirk Books release will feature the original text of the novel with passages of g ...
Revolving Door Vanessa Mobley To Leave Penguin Press By Jason Boog on Jan. 28, 2009 - 3:23 PM Penguin Press lost its senior editor as Vanessa Mobley decided to leave her post. According to the NY Observer, Mobley is leaving by her own choice. Recently she signed a campaign book by the New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza. In 2006 ...