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Who Dunnit?
by Alexandra Alter
Publishers hope so. This year, as print sales continue to plummet, several publishing houses are launching mystery imprints in hopes of gaining a toehold in the thriving crime-fiction market. Newcomers range from big publishers like Little, Brown, which has rolled out the suspense imprint Mulholland, to smaller independent publishers. Amazon and digital media company Open Road are entering the fray with new digital crime imprints.
Mulholland has several splashy books in the works, including a new Sherlock Holmes novel by best-selling author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, sanctioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle estate, out in November. In October, it plans to publish a horror novel about an occult investigator by the writers of the "Saw" movie franchise. And set for a 2012 release is a novel jointly written by "Lost" co-creator J.J. Abrams and novelist Doug Dorst. Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch says Mr. Abrams's book "will do for the form of the novel what the show 'Lost' did for narrative TV."
Mulholland editor John Schoenfelder has been soliciting works and ideas not just from literary agents but from Hollywood producers, TV and film writers, graphic novelists and even videogame creators. In June, Mulholland published a digital collection of short stories based on characters and crimes depicted in the videogame "L.A. Noire," by Rockstar Games.
Mr. Schoenfelder says he plans to release 24 titles a year, including supernatural thrillers, hard-boiled detective fiction, espionage, horror, dystopian thrillers and high-concept adventure fiction. So far, Mulholland has bought more than 40 books, plus the digital rights to 25 books by pulp novelist Jim Thompson.
Mr. Pietsch says he created Mulholland to capitalize on the strong mystery market. Mysteries and thrillers accounted for nearly 30% of fiction sales in 2010, a study by industry analyst Bowker found. Mystery became the top-selling genre in 2010, up five spots from the previous year, according to Simba Information, which tracks the publishing industry. Rock Stars of Books: Musicians’ Big Sales
by Julie Bosman
When Sammy Hagar appeared at Left Bank Books in St. Louis in March to autograph copies of his memoir, it was not a typical book signing.
“Nobody did,” said Kris Kleindienst, the relieved bookstore owner.
Such are the perils of working with the rock ’n’ roll legends who have lined up to write their life stories lately, a group that includes Keith Richards, Ozzy Osbourne, Patti Smith, Pete Townshend, Bob Mould and Gregg Allman.
In a squirrely market for books, the rock memoir has taken off, spurring publishers to pursue more book deals with musicians willing to tell their stories.
“There is an unusual number,” said Ed Victor, the literary agent who represents Mr. Richards, Eric Clapton and Mr. Townshend. “And that’s because there’s been some very successful ones and people want to copycat.”
Mr. Richards’s book, “Life,” which sold for more than $7 million, received raves from critics and stayed on the New York Times’s hardcover best-seller list for 22 weeks. A memoir by Steven Tyler, the Aerosmith frontman, was such an early hit that his publisher, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, went back to press six times before the book was published in May, based on the strength of preorders from bookstores and online retailers.
Ms. Smith won a National Book Award in nonfiction last year for “Just Kids,” a memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe and her bohemian adventures in New York in the 1960s and ’70s.
“It appears that the entire Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is now sitting in front of the computer,” said David Hirshey, the HarperCollins editor who just bought Mr. Townshend’s memoir.
Even Mr. Hagar landed in the No. 1 spot on the best-seller list earlier this year with his memoir, “Red,” which went on to sell 61,000 copies in hardcover, according to Nielsen BookScan, which typically tracks 75 percent of retail printed sales and does not track e-book sales.
Life after Nemesis
by Jan Dalley
“The first one did. Certainly. It plucked that book out of nowhere. After that, well, it’s better to win them than to lose them.”
It’s a typically laconic remark. He does not travel these days and he will not be in London to receive his prize on Tuesday, preferring to stay put in his chosen seclusion. We are sitting in Roth’s study at his Connecticut home, a small wooden cabin detached from the tall grey clapboard house built in 1790, where he has lived since 1972 – although the cold half of the year is now spent in Manhattan. A broad desk occupies most of the space and, right behind it a huge fireplace, empty now in summer, silently describes the winter weather here. There’s a reclining chair and a comfortable leather couch – it is an unostentatious space perfectly adapted for long solitary hours of work. Through the window are apple trees, an old barn, the huge branches of a 200-year-old ash tree creaking gently in the wind. I think of Swede Levov, the protagonist of Roth’s 1997 novel American Pastoral, a Jewish boy from Newark who managed to move his family from the city streets into deep rural peace, and his feelings of astonishment that you could own a tree.
Roth, now 78, owns many trees. The acres surrounding his Connecticut house fold around the property protectively, bringing peace and privacy and deep silence; he has lived here alone since the end of his second marriage in 1995 and, without the banging of the builders currently repairing the ravages of last winter’s bitter weather, it must get very quiet indeed. It’s a world away, if only a couple of hours away, from the furious turmoil of the city streets of Newark where he grew up in the 1930s, the child of Jewish immigrants. Time and again, his fiction debates escape from those city streets – the immigrant’s dream of success, of “owning a piece of America”, and the dangers of leaving to live among the goyim with their strange ways, their drink and their golf and their prejudices.
Yet those mean streets live in his head and to them his fictional world returns again and again, a psychological as well as a literal location. Newark is to Roth as Rosebud was to Citizen Kane: his emotional touchstone, locus of his all-important ethnic identity and springboard for his lifelong questioning of the American condition. It was his friend and mentor Saul Bellow, he says, who showed him that he could work from the local, from what he knew: Bellow used Chicago in that way. “I think [in those books] I am presenting America to myself,” Roth explains, “trying to make the moment come back to life, and remember. And what I don’t remember I go back to Newark and look for. I look at old newspapers. I get pleasure from doing that.”
“Well,” – with a roar of easy laughter – “I have to get some pleasure.”
His most recent book, Nemesis , published last year, is a return to Newark and for many commentators a triumphant return to high form after its more lacklustre predecessor, 2009’s The Humbling . Nemesis is set in Newark during the second world war amid a polio epidemic that savagely attacks the children of the poor. Fear and panic start to kick away life’s fragile edifices and anti-Semitism raises its head.
“For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Subjects I can now look at from a historical perspective. Like the anti-communist era in America. I lived through that, I was a boy, I didn’t find a way to write about it until many years later. The same with the Vietnam war. I started to try to write the book that became American Pastoral back in the 1970s, when the war was just ending, but I couldn’t do it. It took another 20 years. I wouldn’t know what to write [about Iraq and Afghanistan, or 9/11]. It does take me 20 years to figure it out.
Are Spammers Killing Kindle Sales?
Thousands of digital books, called ebooks, are being published through Amazon's self-publishing system each month. Many are not written in the traditional sense.
Instead, they are built using something known as Private Label Rights, or PLR content, which is information that can be bought very cheaply online then reformatted into a digital book.
These ebooks are listed for sale -- often at 99 cents -- alongside more traditional books on Amazon's website, forcing readers to plow through many more titles to find what they want. Aspiring spammers can even buy a DVD box set called Autopilot Kindle Cash that claims to teach people how to publish 10 to 20 new Kindle books a day without writing a word.
This new phenomenon represents the dark side of an online revolution that's turning the traditional publishing industry on its head by giving authors new ways to access readers directly.
In 2010, almost 2.8 million nontraditional books, including ebooks, were published in the United States, while just more than 316,000 traditional books came out. That compares with 1.33 million nontraditional books and 302,000 conventional books in 2009, according to Albert Greco, a publishing-industry expert at Fordham University's business school.
In 2002, fewer than 33,000 nontraditional books were published, while over 215,000 traditional books came out in the United States, Greco noted.
"This is a staggering increase. It's mind boggling," Greco said. "On the positive side, this is helping an awful lot of people who wrote books and could not get them published in the traditional way through agents," Greco added.
But Greco listed downsides. One problem is that authors must compete for readers with a lot more books -- many of which "probably never should have seen the light of day," he said. Some of these books appear to be outright copies of other work. Earlier this year, Shayne Parkinson, a New Zealander who writes historical novels, discovered her debut "Sentence of Marriage" was on sale on Amazon under another author's name.
The issue was initially spotted and then resolved by customers through Amazon's British online forum.
Storyseller
“They’re probably from, like, my mom,” she said as she walked up to her porch. “Or my dad. He always sends flowers.”
Inside, Goldman had set the assortment of gerbera daisies and roses on the coffee table. “Who are they from?” Hocking asked.
“St. Martin’s Press,” Goldman said. “That’s your new publisher.”
That morning, Hocking’s deal with St. Martin’s was announced: $2 million for her next four books, a series she’s calling “Watersong.”
She casually opened the card. “ ‘Thrilled to be your publisher,’ ” she read. “ ‘Thrilled to be working with you. Sincerely, people.’ ” People?
“Well, ‘Sincerely, Matthew Shear and Rose Hilliard,’ ” she said before trailing off, referring to a head of St. Martin’s and the woman who would be her editor there.
If Hocking seems a bit blasé about signing her first deal with a traditional publisher, and a multimillion-dollar one at that, it’s hard to blame her. Since uploading her first book on her own last spring, she has become — along with the likes of Nora Roberts, James Patterson and Stieg Larsson — one of the best-selling e-authors on Amazon. In that time, she has grossed approximately $2 million. Her 10 novels include the paranormal-romance “Trylle,” a four-book vampire series that begins with “My Blood Approves” and “Hollowland,” which kicks off a zombie series whose second book will come out in the fall. Her character-driven books, which feature trolls, hobgoblins and fairy-tale elements and keep the pages turning, have generated an excitement not felt in the industry since Stephenie Meyer or perhaps even J. K. Rowling. “She’s just a really good storyteller,” Hilliard says. “Whatever that thing is that makes you want to stay up late at night to read one more chapter — she has it.”
Hollywood feels the same way: the “Trylle”series was optioned by Media Rights Capital, which was involved with “The Adjustment Bureau,” among other films; the screenplays are being written by the woman who co-wrote “District 9.’’
Misery Lit: Unhappy Assange Changes Mind on Memoir
WikiLeaks founder thought to have told publishers book could give ammunition to U.S. prosecutors
Assange signed a high profile deal for his memoirs in December with the Edinburgh-based publishers Canongate and US firm Alfred A Knopf, for a reported sum of £930,000. The rights have subsequently been sold in 35 countries.
At the time, Assange said he hoped the book "would become one of the unifying documents of our generation". But he also indicated that the deal was critical in helping to fund his legal fight against extradition to Sweden to face accusations of rape and sexual assault.
According to publishing sources, however, the contract has fallen through, at least in its original form, after Assange indicated he no longer wished to write the kind of book that was initially envisaged.
He is thought to have told publishers that the book, ghostwritten by the novelist Andrew O'Hagan, could give ammunition to US prosecutors, whom he fears may seek his extradition on terrorist charges relating to WikiLeaks disclosures.
A spokeswoman for the Canongate said the publisher would not discuss the book "until it is ready to", and would not make any statement until after next week, when the Australian will appear at the high court in London to appeal against a ruling in February that he should be extradited.
Amazon Publishing to Authors: "We'll Promote You"
by Emily Witt
Amazon Publishing has already shown little interest in industry traditions, and The Observer has now learned how Amazon is looking to revolutionize the process of getting author blurbs: provide a review for a book on an Amazon imprint and Amazon will give the reviewer — and his or her book — extra promotion as a thank you.
While it’s easy to be cynical about old publishing’s faux-gentlemanly approach to getting promotional quotes (send advanced reading copies to an author’s MFA supervisor or writer friends with handwritten requests on nice letterhead for “thoughts”) Amazon Publishing dispenses with the niceties altogether.
Exhibit A is an email that was sent in January to Elyse Cheney, a New York literary agent, asking for a quote from one of Ms. Cheney’s authors for a book called Stalina, “by an exciting author named Emily Rubin.” The book was coming out on AmazonEncore, the Amazon imprint that republishes successfully self-published books.
I’m interested in knowing whether [name redacted] would be willing to take a look at Stalina and if he likes it, provide a guest review in which we’d also promote [name redacted] and his works, including any upcoming projects.
“They referred to her as a man!” said Ms. Cheney with disdain. The client in question is a woman.
The email went on to detail its promotional efforts: The review would be prominently featured on Amazon.com in customer emails, rotating campaigns in the Amazon.com Books and Kindle stores, and on the Stalina detail page (to which our marketing and PR efforts will be driving significant traffic). This would be a great way to get added exposure on Amazon for [name redacted]‘s backlist or upcoming releases.
“It’s completely unethical,” said Ms. Cheney. “That’s just not how blurbs are done.” Another agent, however, saw no problems with the approach. The exclusive review that ultimately ran on Stalina’s page came from the novelist Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter.
“Amazon did contact us, as they were fans of Russian Winter and felt Daphne would be appropriate given the overlapping interest in Russia,” wrote her agent, WME’s Dorian Karchmar, in an email to The Observer. Ms. Karchmar said there were no stipulations about what Ms. Kalatoy could write and added that they weren’t “aware of any exchange in terms of featured placement.”
“There are a number of publishers, including Amazon Publishing, that try to secure guest reviews for their books,” said Sarah Gelman, PR manager for Amazon Publishing. “The guest reviewer often receives some on-site promotion as an added incentive to write the review.” Of course, most publishers are not also retailers.
More Americans Buying eReaders ThanTablets
An analyst projects that Amazon.com will sell 17.5 million Kindles in 2011.
by Amy Gahran, Special to CNN
Last winter, tablets had a slight market lead. According to Pew, as of that time, 7% of U.S. adults owned a tablet computer (such as the iPad or Motorola Mobility's Xoom), while only 6% owned an e-reader device.
But that picture soon changed drastically. By May, 12% of U.S. adults owned an e-reader, while tablet ownership expanded only to 8%. (Note: the margin of error on this survey is 2%, but that would not challenge the market lead of e-readers.)
This is not an either-or technology choice. Pew noted that 3% of adults own both devices. Specifically, 9% own an e-reader but not a tablet, and 5% own a tablet but not an e-reader.
Apple has sold more than 25 million iPads and has a dominant share of the tablet market. Amazon and Barnes & Noble don't disclose sales of their e-reader devices. Citi analyst Mark Mahaney forecasts that Amazon could sell 17.5 million Kindles in this year alone.
Who's buying e-readers? According to Pew, Hispanics (who appear to be leading other U.S. ethnic demographics generally in embracing mobile technology), adults under age 65, college graduates, parents, and people in households earning less than $75,000 per year are especially likely to own e-readers.
Cherish the Book Publishers
by Eric Felten
And then there's John Locke, whose "How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months" is a primer on peddling digital dime-novels—well, 99-cent novels—at Amazon's Kindle store. Though now it seems even 99 cents may be too much to ask for e-pulp fiction. Eager newbies are finding that the price of getting their books read is to give them away. ("How can they possibly make a living that way?" the old joke asks. "Volume.")
It isn't just the elusive prospect of riches that excites the untold thousands of hopefuls crowding into the new self-publishing space. They are buoyed by escaping the grim frustrations of trying to get published the old-fashioned way. No more form-letter rejections from know-nothing agents and can't-be-bothered editors.
It's only natural for those locked out to despise the gatekeepers, but what about those of us in the reading public? Shouldn't we be grateful that it's someone else's job to weed out the inane, the insipid, the incompetent? Not that they always do such a great job of it, given some of the books that do get published by actual publishers. But at least they provide some buffer between us and the many aspiring authors who are like the wannabe pop stars in the opening weeks of each "American Idol" season: How many instant novelists are as deluded as the singers who make with the strangled-cat noises believing they have Arethaen pipes?
Rowling Hints Harry Not Dead
by Richard Alleyne
JK Rowling told the crowd that while she had no immediate plans to resurrect her boy wizard, she would "never say never".
To deafening cheers, she added: "It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again I will." Harry Potter lovers from across the globe had filled the famous piazza in central London and spilt over to the steps of surrounding buildings as they paid their final respects to the young, bespectacled wizard, whose adventures began before many of them were born.
There were so many people by the time the stars walked the red carpet that police had to close nearby roads and order crowds away from traffic islands and street corners.
It was all a long way from 1997, when struggling author JK Rowling finally got her first book in the franchise published. Such was the lack of ambition that only 1,000 copies were printed. Almost immediately however the franchise took off – and now, seven novels later, she has sold more than 450 million copies and been translated into 67 languages.
The subsequent films have grossed more than £4 billion at the box office and with merchandising the whole phenomenon is thought to be worth more than £10 billion.
Now the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two, is expected to be the biggest yet.
2,000 Years of Popes, Sacred and Profane
by Bill Keller
And he has plenty of story to tell. “Absolute Monarchs” sprawls across Europe and the Levant, over two millenniums, and with an impossibly immense cast: 265 popes (plus various usurpers and antipopes), feral hordes of Vandals, Huns and Visigoths, expansionist emperors, Byzantine intriguers, Borgias and Medicis, heretic zealots, conspiring clerics, bestial inquisitors and more. Norwich manages to organize this crowded stage and produce a rollicking narrative. He keeps things moving at nearly beach-read pace by being selective about where he lingers and by adopting the tone of an enthusiastic tour guide, expert but less than reverent.
A scholar or devout Roman Catholic would probably not have had so much fun, for example, with the tale of Pope Joan, the mid-ninth-century Englishwoman who, according to lore, disguised herself as a man, became pope and was caught out only when she gave birth. Although Norwich regards this as “one of the hoariest canards in papal history,” he cannot resist giving her a chapter of her own. It is a guilty pleasure, especially his deadpan pursuit of the story that the church, determined not to be fooled again, required subsequent papal candidates to sit on a chaise percée (pierced chair) and be groped from below by a junior cleric, who would shout to the multitude, “He has testicles!” Norwich tracks down just such a piece of furniture in the Vatican Museum, dutifully reports that it may have been an obstetric chair intended to symbolize Mother Church, but adds, “It cannot be gainsaid, on the other hand, that it is admirably designed for a diaconal grope; and it is only with considerable reluctance that one turns the idea aside.”
If you were raised Catholic, you may find it disconcerting to see an institution you were taught to think of as the repository of the faith so thoroughly deconsecrated. Norwich says little about theology and treats doctrinal disputes as matters of diplomacy. As he points out, this is in keeping with many of the popes themselves, “a surprising number of whom seem to have been far more interested in their own temporal power than in their spiritual well-being.” For most of their two millenniums, the popes were rulers of a large sectarian state, managers of a civil service, military strategists, occasionally battlefield generals, sometimes patrons of the arts and humanities, and, importantly, diplomats. They were indeed monarchs. (But not, it should be said, “absolute monarchs.” Whichever editor persuaded Norwich to change his British title, “The Popes: A History,” may have done the book a marketing favor but at the cost of accuracy: the popes’ power was invariably shared with or subordinated to emperors and kings of various stripes. In more recent times, the popes have had no civil power outside the 110 acres of Vatican City, no military at all, and even their moral authority has been flouted by legions of the faithful.)
ABSOLUTE MONARCHS A History of the Papacy By John Julius Norwich Illustrated. 512 pp. Random House. $30.
Big Opening Sales for Martin and Dugard
RHPG publisher of digital content Scott Shannon echoes for the NYT, "What's been really interesting is the physical-digital split. These days, for a lot of our big titles, digital is outselling physical. That's not what we’re seeing here, and it really speaks to George’s fan base." Bantam says they printed 650,000 copies prior to publication, and touts 8.5 million copies in print of the first four volumes in the "Song of Ice and Fire" series with a resurgence of interest driven by the recent HBO adaptation.
Meanwhile, Simon & Schuster also reported strong opening day sales for Jaycee Dugard's memoir A STOLEN LIFE. Of the approximately 175,000 units sold, nearly 100,000 were ebooks--which the house calls "a new company record [for them] for one-day ebook sales." In a statement publisher Jonathan Karp said "The millions of people who read the excerpt in People magazine and watched Jaycee Dugard's interview with Diane Sawyer want to hear more of her voice, on the page, and the comments we're seeing online indicate that readers are finding inspiration in Jaycee Dugard's strength and resilience." Bits & Bytes Get Thousands of Additional Listings for AmSAW PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS Today
FICTION Debut Ashley Prentice Norton's THE CHOCOLATE MONEY: the story of the daughter of a glamorous chocolate heiress, who must navigate a complex landscape of wealth, sex and decadence through a privileged childhood in Chicago and an east coast prep school, with only her narcissistic mother to guide her -- a woman who absolutely refuses to play by the rules, to Adrienne Brodeur at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in a pre-empt, in a good deal, by Bill Clegg at William Morris Endeavor (NA).
Women's/Romance NYT bestseller Tracy Anne Warren's next three Regency historical romances, to Wendy McCurdy at Penguin, in a significant deal, by Helen Breitwieser at Cornerstone Literary (World English).
Golden Heart finalist Aislinn Macnamara's debut A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, about a young woman trying to reject the proposal of the ton's golden boy because her sister has been in love with that same man for years, to Caitlin Alexander at Ballantine Bantam Dell, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Sara Megibow at Nelson Literary Agency (World).
General/Other Author of THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY Tiffany Baker's MERCY SNOW, pitched as a contemporary twist on the Antigone myth set in a mill town in New Hampshire, about three women whose lives collide following a tragic accident and the cover-up that surrounds it, to Helen Atsma at Grand Central, in a good deal, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (World).
Children's: Young Adult Author of AUDREY, WAIT! and THE EXTRAORDINARY SECRETS OF APRIL, MAY & JUNE, Robin Benway's ALSO KNOWN AS and EMMY & OLIVER, to Stacy Cantor Abrams at Walker, in a six-figure deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Lisa Grubka at Foundry Literary + Media (NA). Foreign: hgordon@foundrymedia.com
NONFICTION Biography Alan Forrest's NAPOLEON, the remarkable story of how the son of a Corsican attorney became the most powerful man in Europe, to Charles Spicer at St. Martin's, in a nice deal, for publication in September 2011 (NA).
History/Politics/Current Affairs The President of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, Christopher Finan's DRUNKS: America's Search for Sobriety, the as-yet untold story in American history about the two-century-old battle against alcoholism, exploring and celebrating the progress of the nation's search for sobriety, to Helene Atwan at Beacon Press, for publication in Spring 2014, by Jill Marr at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (World English).
Humor #1 NYT bestselling author of Sh*t My Dad Says Justin Halpern's new book, a series of essays recounting the twists and turns his romantic life has taken: how he learned about sex by walking in on his parents at age nine, getting caught burying stolen pornography in his back yard by his father a few years later, and surviving as the last of his college friends to lose his virginity, to Mauro DiPreta of It Books, by Byrd Leavell at the Waxman Literary Agency.
Writer of the "Sally Forth" comic strip and of the Emmy Award-winning "Seemore's Playhouse" Francesco Marciuliano's I COULD PEE ON THIS (AND OTHER POEMS BY CATS), in which feline bards contemplate the meaning of life, the sweetness of vengeance, jealous pangs over the food bowl, the sound of glass objects shattering when nudged off flat surfaces, and the impossibility of friction-free communication between the cat and human worlds, to Emily Haynes at Chronicle, by Scott Mendel at Mendel Media Group (World English).
Memoir Former member of the infamous hate group The Westboro Baptist Church Lauren Drain's BANISHED, about her seven years living with the group and her ensuing expulsion, to Emily Griffin at Grand Central, in a six-figure deal, at auction, by Lisa Grubka at Foundry Literary + Media (NA). Foreign: sabou@foundrymedia.com
Narrative Julie Zauzmer and Xi Yu's CONNING HARVARD: THE IVY LEAGUE SCAM OF THE CENTURY, the true story of Adam Wheeler, who lied his way into Harvard; lied to win top scholarships and grants, and almost deceived the Fullbright Scholarship Committee, written by two the undergraduate Harvard Crimson cub reporters who broke the story and followed its entire trajectory, to Holly Rubino at Lyons Press, in a nice deal, for publication in 2012, by Jeff Herman at Jeff Herman Agency (World).
Science Frans de Waal's THE BONOBO AND THE ATHEIST: In Search of Humanism among the Primates, using examples of pro-social animal behavior, de Waal argues that morality grows out of our biology, and comes to us from the bottom-up, not top-down from science, philosophy or God, to Colin Dickerman at Rodale, at auction, by Michelle Tessler at Tessler Literary Agency (North American).
Sports PULL UP A CHAIR and THE VOICE author Curt Smith's MERCY! Fenway Park's Centennial, Told Through Red Sox Radio/TV, a salute to 2012's 100th anniversary of America's Most Beloved Ballpark, through the radio/TV calls and careers of famed Red Sox announcers, including: Curt Gowdy, Ned Martin, Ken Coleman, Bob Murphy, Jim Woods, Ken Harrelson, Dick Stockton, Jon Miller, Sean McDonough, Dave O'Brien, Jerry Remy, and Joe Castiglione, among others, again to Sam Dorrance and Elizabeth Demers at Potomac Books, for publication in Spring 2012, by Andrew Blauner and Blauner Books Literary Agency.
General/Other Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times economic columnist David Leonhardt's THE CONFIDENCE GAME, examining how confidence -- and overconfidence -- affect success and failure, in areas ranging from medicine and education to the economy and business, to Jonathan Jao at Random House, at auction, by Christy Fletcher at Fletcher & Company (NA).
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