News covering book rights bought and sold, movie rights and foreign rights. en-us http://www.publishersweekly.com/community/Deals/47146.html?nid=3323 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.publishersweekly.com/info/337409.html Terms of Use. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:35:06 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6706029.html?nid=3323 Ryan and McNeil Team Up at Vertigo Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services sold a coming-of-age graphic novel called Bad Houses by artist Carla Speed McNeil and YA novelist Sara Ryan to Joan Hilty at DC’s Vertigo imprint. Hilty took world rights, and Mecoy brokered the deal with Ryan’s agent, Barry Goldblatt. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705494.html?nid=3323 Henry Holt executive editor Gillian Blake has won a hotly contested auction for New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert's new book, The Sixth Extinction. Blake beat out eight other houses for the book, which will be expanded from the author's May 2009 New Yorker piece of the same name. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:13:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704608.html?nid=3323 Harper Teen, Ballantine, St. Martin's, Minotaur, more. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704243.html?nid=3323 A new Macmillan contract will change the way the publisher pays for digital sales as well as upping royalties for direct to consumer sales. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:20:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703712.html?nid=3323 Ecco gets Leonard Cohen bio, Grand Central nabs a Food Network personality, Hyperion closes on Willie Geist's second book, more. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703190.html?nid=3323 HarperCollins's San Francisco-based imprint, HarperOne, has inked psychic (and bestseller) Sylvia Browne to a three-book deal. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:47:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702743.html?nid=3323 Simon & Schuster's Atria Books imprint has struck a three-book deal with F.J. Lennon for a series based on his popular video game app, Soul Trapper. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:03:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702568.html?nid=3323 Simon & Schuster nabs Pamela Geller, Hacking Work goes to Portfolio, Naval Institute Press gets Russian sub documentary tie-in, and more. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702120.html?nid=3323 Bantam has signed Dean Koontz for three new Frankenstein novels, which will be the first of the series—launched with two volumes in 2005—that will be published in hardcover. The first new volume, Lost Souls, will be published in May 2010 and begins a new story cycle that will continue with the two subsequent books, to be released in May 2011 and May 2012. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:33:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6701893.html?nid=3323 The first major deal out of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair involves an international laydown of Ken Follett’s next novel, Fall of Giants, which will be the first title in Follett’s New Century Trilogy. The simultaneous six-country release—set for September 28, 2010—will coincide with the airing of an eight-hour Pillars of the Earth TV miniseries next fall. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:44:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6701397.html?nid=3323 John Glusman, Victoria Alexander, Peter McGuigan, MacAdam/Cage, more. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6701023.html?nid=3323 Closing a five-way auction just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Brian DeFiore sold North American rights to 26-year-old Benjamin Hale's debut to Cary Goldstein at Twelve. Another Iowa graduate, Anna Keesey, just sold her debut novel, Little Century, at auction, to Courtney Hodell at FSG. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:42:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6700674.html?nid=3323 Capt. Benjamin Tupper, a member of the New York National Guard who blogged about his experiences overseas, has just closed a deal with NAL for his book, Welcome to Afghanistan, Send More Ammo, thanks to an inadvertent plug from Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:29:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6700172.html?nid=3323 [In last week’s “Frankfurt Briefcase 2009,” the titles listed under the Sandra Dijkstra Agency are in fact being shopped by the Taryn Fagerness Agency. The titles being shopped by the Dijkstra Agency are below. For our full listing of Frankfurt titles, go to publishersweekly.com/FrankfurtBriefcase2009. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6700170.html?nid=3323 Putnam's Neil Nyren, Hyperion's Leslie Wells, St. Martin's Jennifer Enderlin, Gotham's Miriam Rich, Henry Holt's Gillian Blake, and more. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6699191.html?nid=3323 Garth Stein, author of the bestselling The Art of Racing in the Rain, is leaving HarperCollins, which published Rain in 2008, for Simon & Schuster, which will publish his next novel in summer 2011. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:49:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6699042.html?nid=3323 Ann Brasheres grows up, Bret Easton Ellis heads back to his L.A. roots, Julia Childs's grand-nephew talks H2O, Julie Powell hits the butcher block, Eoin Colfer does his best Douglas Adams impression and George Romero lays down the rules of zombie-dom—that and more in PW's roundup of the big books up for grabs at this year's fair. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6698933.html?nid=3323 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6698913.html?nid=3323 Jimmy Carter has moved houses, signing to do his next book with FSG. (Carter's last book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, was published by Simon & Schuster in January.) John Sterling acquired world rights to the book--which will be the former president's White House diaries--and the house is planning to publish in October 2010. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:12:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6698138.html?nid=3323 Ballantine Books has acquired the memoir of Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:19:00 EST