Best-selling Author Joins

Million-Kindle Club

SEATTLE, Sep 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Amazon.com, Inc., announced that best-selling author George R.R. Martin is the latest author to sell more than 1 million Kindle books in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). Martin's most recent novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, "A Dance with Dragons," debuted in the #2 spot on the Kindle Best Seller list and has remained in the Top 50 for more than 100 days. Martin joins Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, Suzanne Collins, Michael Connelly, John Locke, Janet Evanovich and Kathryn Stockett in the Kindle Million Club.

"George R.R. Martin's series is simply epic," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. "And an elaborate series like this is great on Kindle because you can turn the last page of book three at 10:30 at night, then buy book four and be on its first page at 10:31."

"Groucho Marx once said, 'I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member,' but even Groucho might have made an exception for the Kindle Million Club," said George R.R. Martin. "It's a real thrill to be inducted into this one. There are no dues, no meetings, and I'll be in some wonderful and exclusive company. But really, all the credit here goes to the people who made it possible - to Amazon, my publishers, my editors, and most of all, my readers. I owe this to everyone who ever read one of my books and recommended it to a friend. Thanks... and keep reading. The best is yet to come."

Amazon

Saddam's Daughter To

Publish Father's Memoir

Jamaica Observer

AMMAN, JORDAN (AFP) — Raghad, a daughter of executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, plans to publish her father's memoirs, her Jordanian lawyer said yesterday.

"Raghad is looking for an international publishing company to publish her father's memoirs, which he himself wrote," Haitham Herish told Al-Ghad newspaper.

"These are the real and authentic memoirs, and Raghad is open to any offer that would preserve the rights of her family."

Raghad, the eldest of Saddam's three daughters, fled with her sister Rana and children to Jordan in 2003.

In 2009, Saddam's former attorney Khalil al-Dulaimi published what he said was the memories of the Iraqi leader who was toppled in the US-led invasion of 2003, based on their conversations.

In the 480-page book, Saddam Hussein Out of US Prison: What Happened? Dulaimi wrote that Saddam had planned to escape from his US-run prison with the help of loyalists, including former bodyguards.

Saddam was captured by US troops in December 2003, eight months after the fall of Baghdad, in a pit on a farm near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq.  He was hanged in December 2006 after being convicted of crimes against humanity.

Salman Rushdie

Takes to Twitter

Swapping endearments with everyone from Margaret Atwood to Kylie Minogue, the author is throwing himself into micro-blogging.

Salman Rushdie has revealed that he is "locked in a Scrabble deathmatch series" with Kylie Minogue on his new Twitter account.  Rushdie joined Twitter late last week, forced to tweet under the handle @SalmanRushdie1 after another user snaffled SalmanRushdie. "Who are you? why are you pretending to be me? Release this username. You are a phoney. All followers please note," Rushdie wrote.

He quickly began to pick up followers, but the web was initially uncertain whether to believe that the Booker prize-winning author was really on the micro-blogging site. "Testing to see if it's really you. Name the 2 musical performers who played @ the NYC launch party for LUKA," wrote @KimberlyBurnsPR. "Angela McCluskey and the Little Death, so there!" replied Rushdie. "Where did Faiz hide from a mob in 1947?" asked Time journalist @OmarWaraich. "Under my aunt Begum Majeed Malik's carpet, in her cellar in Karachi. Now stop it everyone. It's becoming dull," replied the author, who this morning changed his status to "Today we move on from ontological questions. As Popeye the Sailor Man said, I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam."

Rushdie has taken to Twitter – which has now verified his account – with great aplomb. He has picked up more than 16,000 followers already, is following other tweeters from Lisa Appignanesi and Hari Kunzu to Carrie Fisher and Gwyneth Paltrow, and has entered into lively discussions with both fellow authors and fans. Minogue demanded a Scrabble rematch with the author after he said that "she's good, but I should point out that I'm winning". "You are ON. Rematch anyplace, anytime. Bring it," said Rushdie. He told the novelist Kathy Lette – who welcomed him with "hello Literary Love God" – that "I just handed in revised MS of my memoir, so I have time to waste here…" "Brekky? Brunch? Whipped cream orgy? Xxx" suggested Lette. "You're too far away. Out of whipped cream range," responded Rushdie.

After tweeting a new story, A Globe of Heaven – later posted on his blog – Rushdie tweeted Bret Easton Ellis, Mia Farrow, Stephen Fry and Margaret Atwood and made plans to meet up with Neil Gaiman. "Dear world, please follow @SalmanRushdie1. And be nice to him. He writes good books and knows all," wrote Gaiman to his 1.6m followers. "Fanks guvnor yer not so bad yersel," replied Rushdie.

Isaacson Recalls First/Last

Jobs Meetings

Walter Isaacson has a short essay at Time.com about the genesis of his Steve Jobs biography. Key portions are at this open link at Poynter. Jobs called Isaacson in the summer of 2004 to arrange a meeting in Aspen: "It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him.... Because I assumed that he was still in the middle of an oscillating career that had many more ups and downs left, I demurred. Not now, I said. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire. But I later realized that he had called me just before he was going to be operated on for cancer for the first time."

On their final meeting a few weeks ago: "In order to mask my emotion, I asked the one question that was still puzzling me: Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? 'I wanted my kids to know me,' he said. 'I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.'"

Barnes & Noble VP of marketing Patricia Bostelman echoes the thoughts of many booksellers to the NYT: "We think it's the biggest adult nonfiction book of the year." Isaacson is expected to appear on 60 Minutes and Fortune has a second serial lined up.

Julian Assange Autobiography

Published Anyway

by Jerome Taylor

The autobiography of Julian Assange was published despite attempts by the WikiLeaks founder to suppress his tell-all memoir after a bitter and acrimonious row with its publisher.  The manuscript, excerpts of which appear in London's Independent, is the first time Assange has directly addressed the events in Sweden that forced him into a costly extradition battle over sexual abuse allegations in which both his liberty and the future of WikiLeaks are now at stake.

The book provides a profoundly personal insight into a man who, in the space of less than a year, went from being a little-known former hacker to one of the world’s most recognisable faces thanks to his organisation’s string of deeply embarrassing revelations that have won him as many enemies as supporters.

The memoir paints a vivid portrait of a driven but notoriously mercurial idealist bent on moulding the world in his own belief of absolute transparency. It begins with the Australian’s peripatetic childhood in Queensland accompanied by bohemian parents who always made him question authority, describes how he plunged into the hidden underworld of early hacking and went on to form a whistle-blowing platform that would redefine the nature of information security. The book also contains prolonged and bitter rants against some of the media partners he allied WikiLeaks with to publish his largest revelations with particular ire reserved for the New York Times and the Guardian newspapers.

An entire chapter is dedicated to explaining his side of the Swedish story – the first time Assange has spoken publicly about the events which have led to him being wanted for questioning by police in Stockholm over allegations that he sexually abused two women during a stay there last summer.

“I have kept my own counsel about the matter until now,” he writes. “It will be difficult to keep anger out of this account, owing to the sheer level of malice and opportunism that have driven the case against me, but I want to make this argument as much as possible in a spirit of understanding.”

According to Assange’s testimony he had been warned by a source in an unnamed intelligence agency that the US government had been planning to set him up. He admits to sleeping with two women – referred to as A and W – but says their allegations that some of the sexual encounters were not consensual are either part of a wider conspiracy or motivated by the fact that he failed to return their calls.

“The international situation had me in its grip, and although I had spent time with these women, I wasn’t paying enough attention to them, or ringing them back, or able to step out of the zone that came down with all these threats and statements against me in America,” he states. “One of my mistakes was to expect them to understand this? I wasn’t a reliable boyfriend, or even a very courteous sleeping partner, and this began to figure. Unless, of course, the agenda had been rigged from the start.”

For Canongate, the small Scottish publishing firm that beat off competitors to sign an exclusive six figure deal with Mr Assange, the publication of his memoir is the culmination of a fraught series of fallouts that nearly led to the entire project being shelved.

Independent

News Site Publishers

Rivals to eBooks

by Julie Bosman and Jeremy W. Peters

Book publishers are surrounded by hungry new competitors: Amazon, with its steadily growing imprints; authors who publish their own e-books; online start-ups like The Atavist and Byliner.

Now they have to contend with another group elbowing into their territory: news organizations.

Swiftly and at little cost, newspapers, magazines and sites like The Huffington Post founded by Ariana Huffington (above) are hunting for revenue by publishing their own version of e-books, either using brand-new content or repurposing material that they may have given away free in the past.

And by making e-books that are usually shorter, cheaper to buy and more quickly produced than the typical book, they are redefining what an e-book is — and who gets to publish it.

On Tuesday, The Huffington Post will release its second e-book, “How We Won,” by Aaron Belkin, the story of the campaign to end the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. It joins e-books recently published by The New Yorker, ABC News, The Boston Globe, Politico and Vanity Fair.

The books occasionally snap up valuable spots on best-seller lists — “Open Secrets,” an e-book published by The New York Times, landed in the No. 19 spot on The Times e-book nonfiction best-seller list in February.

“Surely they’re competing with us,” said Stephen Rubin, the president and publisher of Henry Holt and Company, part of Macmillan. “If I’m doing a book on Rupert Murdoch and four magazines are doing four instant e-books on Rupert Murdoch, then I’m competing with them.”

But as much as news outlets and magazines would like a piece of the e-book market, it remains to be seen whether what they produce can match the breadth and depth of the work produced by traditional publishing houses.

“I’m doing something different than they’re doing,” added Mr. Rubin, who is in fact offering a book on the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World. “I’m going to get the book on Rupert Murdoch that is the definitive book for all time.”

NYT

Martha Stewart's Daughter

Bastes Domestic Diva

US Weekly

America's domestic diva apparently has a dark side.  In a scathing new tell-all book, Martha Stewart's daughter, Alexis, reveals that life as the homemaker's child was far from perfect.

"Martha does everything better! You can't win!" Alexis, 46, writes of her mother, 70, in her new book, Whateverland: Learning to Live Here, out October 18 (as first excerpted by the U.K. Daily Mail). "If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head."

Now a mother herself, Alexis angrily reflects in her book on Martha's lack of basic parenting skills.

"Martha was not interested in being kid-friendly," Alexis reveals in Whateverland. "She used to make me wrap my own presents. She would hand me things right before Christmas and say, 'Now wrap these but don't look inside.'"

But Alexis says she took the most issue with the domestic diva's habits around the house.

"My mother has a sign on all of her doors to take your shoes off," Alexis writes. "For god's sake! My mother's dogs p--s and s--t on her rugs and she's telling people to take their shoes off?

"[She] always peed with the door open," Alexis continued of her mother's bathroom hygiene. "I remember saying, 'You know, now I have friends over! You can't do that anymore! It's gotta stop! My friends' parents don't do it! Give me a break here! I don’t feel like being embarrassed! It's exhausting! I'm a kid! Stop!'"

Though Alexis drops these and other bombshells in the book, she insists she harbors no ill will. In fact, she even dedicated the tome to Martha. Says the TV personality of her daughter, Alexis: "She's her own person. She makes up her own mind."

New Service To

Self-Publish E-Books

by Julie Bosman

The Perseus Books Group has created a distribution and marketing service that will allow authors to self-publish their own e-books, the company said on Oct. 2.  The new service will give authors an alternative to other self-publishing services and a favorable revenue split that is unusual in the industry: 70 percent to the author and 30 percent to the distributor. Traditional publishers normally provide authors a royalty of about 25 percent for e-books.

The service arrives as authors are increasingly looking for ways to circumvent the traditional publishing model, take advantage of the infinite shelf space of the e-book world and release their own work. That’s especially the case for reviving out-of-print books whose rights have reverted back to the author.

Bloomsbury, a publisher based in Britain, said on Wednesday it had created a new publishing arm that would release digital-only titles. Companies like Open Road Integrated Media have successfully published digital editions of backlist books whose rights were not held by a publisher.

The new Perseus unit, called Argo Navis Author Services, will be available only to authors who are represented by an agency that has signed an agreement with Perseus. David Steinberger, the president and chief executive of the Perseus Books Group, said that the company had made an agreement with one major literary agency: Janklow & Nesbit Associates, whose authors include Ann Beattie, Anne Rice and Diane Johnson. Curtis Brown Ltd., which represents Karen Armstrong and Jim Collins, is also close to signing an agreement to make Argo Navis available to their authors. Perseus is in discussions with more than a dozen other agencies.

NYT

Curious Contents of the

Digital Library

Perhaps you haven’t read Mrs. Molesworth’s “Uncanny Tales” or C. Schweigger’s “Schweigger on Squint.” Perhaps you missed “How to Be Happy Though Married” or the Farmers’ Bulletin devoted to “House Rats and Mice.” No worries. They are available in 24 digital formats, including versions to suit just about any e-book reader you own. These titles, and millions more, are all out of copyright and part of the accelerating effort to digitize the public domain contents of the world’s libraries.

Every e-book reader seems to come preloaded with a few canonical titles — “Pride and Prejudice” or “Alice in Wonderland,” for instance. But there has never been a better time to be a slightly faded writer just beyond the cusp of copyright, like Edgar Wallace or Hilaire Belloc. Their voluminous works — not easily found in your local library — are now copiously available to the digitally curious.

Many public domain books can be found in carefully curated digital apps like the superb British Library 19th Century Collection, the model of what e-book reading should look like. Yet as new old books become available — listed, for instance, on Manybooks.net — you get the puzzling sense that books are leaping almost randomly from their shelves into the digital realm. How “My Unknown Chum” by Charles Bullard Fairbanks was selected for digitizing is unclear.

The goal of digitizing everything in the public domain is a welcome one.

NYT

Can Harper Perennial

Reinvent Pblishing?

With cool young writers, low advance,s and sharp design, a major publisher's small imprint finds a model that works.

by Kevin Canfield

Just over two years ago, an Atlanta writer named Blake Butler submitted a story to Cal Morgan’s short fiction website, Fifty-Two Stories. Morgan, the editorial director of Harper Perennial, was so taken with Butler’s voice — “I was awestruck by how brilliant, unusual and challenging it was,” he said recently — that he published the story that day. Morgan soon signed him to a two-book deal, and he was confident enough in his new find to arrange a marathon, four-night public reading of Butler’s 400-plus page novel “There Is No Year.”

Butler, 32, is young and talented; and as the editor of a popular website of his own, HTML Giant, he brings a well-established link to his readers. He’s prolific, and he writes books that manage to be both earnest and cool. And for a major publisher like Harper — part of the HarperCollins family — he’s inexpensive. Butler received just a $10,000 advance for his first novel with Perennial, he said in an interview, and $20,000 for his follow-up, out this month, “Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia.”

“The stuff I do, I never really considered it major-house stuff… so I was surprised that he was even in to it,” Butler said. Because of Perennial’s faith in his work, Butler said he “never even really considered anyone else.”

Salon

Open Letter:

Optimistic about Publishing's Future

From Sourcebooks' CEO Dominique Raccah, an open letter to colleagues. 

Dear Friends –

Like many of you, I’m an entrepreneur. Twenty-four years ago, I started off by myself, and what has become the Sourcebooks of today is entirely self-built. At a time like now – one of tumultuous industry change – I tend to believe entrepreneurs like us have an advantage. We adapt, test new ideas, innovate, bust down walls, and create new opportunities.

And we’ve been changing Sourcebooks so quickly that I realized you might not actually know who we are anymore. We’ve gone so far beyond the reference and non-fiction publisher you might remember. We’re a decidedly different company from the publisher we were even 3-5 years ago:

· In the first half of this year we’ve had 10 New York Times bestsellers, by different authors in different categories, by debuts and established authors alike.

· There was a week this spring when we had 3 of the 10 books on the New York Times children’s picture book bestsellers list!

· We’ve had 8 USA Today bestsellers this year, including several debut authors!

· We’re a bestselling publisher in categories we were not (or were barely) publishing in four years ago, including fiction, romance, picture books, humor, and memoir.

· We publish estates well too, landing the legendary Georgette Heyer on the New York Times list 37 years after her death.  And of course there’s digital, where we’re creating new opportunities with real revenue streams for authors. We’re making significant investments in ways that will change the future for a number of our authors.  There’s a negative (fear-based) vibe going on these days. When reporters call, they often ask me questions in the negative – “how much have you reduced your print runs?” “How much are your sales down?” and “How many people will you be laying off?” Our answers go in a different direction. We’re very much continuing to grow:

· We make long-term commitments to growing our authors – just this year one author hit the NYT list after 6 years and 4 editions, another on her 4th book with us, another after her 7th. Our goal is to build our authors’ careers. It’s how we measure our success.

· And we continue to add amazing authors at competitive advances. (And in fact right now we’re looking for even bigger projects for every one of our imprints.)

· We’re entirely self-distributed – in fact we have been for more than a decade – reaching a wide swath of retail and non-retail channels. Just 2 weeks ago, we were named Specialty Publisher of the Year by mass channel leader Levy Home Entertainment.

As a result, despite the loss of Borders:

· Sourcebooks’ sales through July/August of this year are up 25%.

· Our Bookscan POS is up 7.5% (industry down 9%) in a challenged retail environment that does not currently report ebook sales.

· And our market share is up over 20%.

And we’re growing in other ways too:

· Our April 2011 batch of royalty checks were again the largest in the company’s 24 year history.

· We’re adding staff as we continue to grow into new areas, including an entirely new division servicing education channels.

· Also, about six months ago we introduced a completely reworked and vastly simplified boilerplate publishing agreement – connect with Todd Stocke, our Vice President and Editorial Director, at todd.stocke@sourcebooks.com if you’d like to see it.

We’re still expanding our children’s, YA, fiction, and romance fiction lists. Our adult nonfiction list is vibrant and growing (with bestsellers in new areas like memoir and humor). Our marketing strength is an asset in the current cluttered environment.

At Sourcebooks, we’re continuing to take a leadership role in digital experimentation and in those discussions on behalf of authors amidst this ever-shifting business.

· We’re extraordinarily data-centric folks and we seek transparency, so you can find some of our data-crunching and analysis in periodic posts on our Next blog at www.sourcebooks.com/next/sourcebooks-next-our-blog.html

· I’m personally available so feel free to connect with me on Twitter @draccah.

· I also personally run the largest ebooks group in the country on LinkedIn. There are currently over 25,000 members. Feel free to join us: www.linkedin.com/groups/Ebooks-Ebook-Readers-Digital-Books-1515307?gid=1515307&trk=hb_side_g

· You can find our catalogs online at www.sourcebooks.com/catalogs.html

· Our acquiring editors and interests for agents are at www.sourcebooks.com/resources/agents.html

Finally, as Chair of the Book Industry Study Group, I’m in New York with regularity (my next trip is September 19-21) and am on the road all around the country. I’d be happy to talk about books, authorship, the future or anything else. Let me know if you’d like to connect!

Certainly these are disruptive times for our industry – we recognize that your business models are changing along with ours. We’re all going to learn and make changes. I think there may be an edge in agile models right now. We’re trying some things that seem to be working. And I’m excited about what we could be doing together!

Here’s to a successful fall for us all.

Dominique Raccah

Publisher, Sourcebooks

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Debut

Marine Captain Phil Klay's debut story collection, focusing on the lives of the men and women serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the families on the home front and the often challenging re-entry into those lives, to Andrea Walker in her first acquisition for Penguin Press, for publication in 2014, by Eric Simonoff of William Morris Endeavor (NA).

Mystery/Crime

Dennis Lehane's SEPTEMBER, in which a cold case detective with a terminal diagnosis investigates a notorious Boston murder and becomes heroic through his final act, to be followed by OCTOBER and NOVEMBER for a Three Months Trilogy, again to Claire Wachtel for William Morrow, in a three-book deal, for publication in 2013, by Ann Rittenberg at Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency (North America).

info@rittlit.com

Thriller

Linwood Barclay's 360, moving to Danielle Perez at NAL, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal, for publication in 2012, by Helen Heller at Helen Heller Agency (US).

helen@helenhelleragency.com

Cameron Jackson's IMPASSE, the story of a man who is gifted with an "adventure vacation" in Alaska but is left to die, and his eventual journey home and revenge on those who betrayed him, pitched as CAST AWAY meets FIRST BLOOD, to Brendan Deneen at Thomas Dunne Books, by Ken Atchity at Story Merchant (World).

Brendan.Deneen@StMartins.com 

General/Other

Author of THE VIOLETS OF MARCH, and the forthcoming novel, THE BUNGALOW, Sarah Jio's BLACKBERRY WINTER, about the fateful late-season Seattle snowstorm that hits the city in 1932 and on the same day in 2010, connecting the lives and losses of two women in unforeseeable ways; along with Jio's fourth book, THE LAST CAMELLIA, again to Denise Roy at Plume, in a good deal, by Elisabeth Weed at Weed Literary (NA).

UK and translation jenny@meyerlit.com

Children's: Young Adult

#1 NYT bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Red Queen Philippa Gregory's four historical romance titles, her first books for young adults, to Jon Anderson at Simon & Schuster Children's and Ingrid Selberg at Simon & Schuster UK Children's, with Venetia Gosling to edit, for publication starting in summer 2012, by Anthony Mason (World).

NONFICTION

NONFICTION

Advice/Relationships

Lucille Zimmerman's OXYGEN FOR A WOMAN'S SOUL: Self-Care Strategies That Will Save Your Life, exploring the idea that women can only love others if they care for themselves, so it's time to get over thinking self-care is "selfish" and instead, embrace rest, peace and joy, to Lil Copan at Abingdon Press, for publication in 2012, by Rachelle Gardner at WordServe Literary Group.

rachelle@wordserveliterary.com

Cooking

Seattle restauranteur and James Beard Award-winning chef, Tom Douglas's THE DAHLIA BAKERY COOKBOOK, a collection of 135 recipes for its sweet and savory treats, to Cassie Jones at William Morrow, in a good deal, for publication in Fall 2011, by Judith Riven at Judith Riven Literary Agent (World).

judith@rivenlit.com

History/Politics/Current Affairs

Washington Post book editor Steven Levingston's LITTLE DEMON IN THE CITY OF LIGHT, about a sensational murder in Belle Epoque-era Paris by a publicity-hungry young woman and her con man partner, a narrative that weaves in the International Exposition, the debuts of the Eiffel Tower and the Moulin Rouge, the first use of scientific forensics, warring theories of crime, hypnosis and the unconscious, and a press-driven trial that riveted the country, to Gerry Howard at Doubleday, in a pre-empt, in a good deal, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (NA).

Memoir

New Yorker magazine cartoon editor Bob Mankoff's HOW ABOUT NEVER -- IS NEVER GOOD YOU FOR YOU?, a memoir in words, illustrations, cartoons, and other ephemera covering his thirty-four years as a cartoonist, to Gillian Blake at Holt, in a pre-empt, by David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects (World).

Foreign: devon.mazzone@fsgbooks.com

Reference

Nelson Mandela's NOTES TO THE FUTURE, an authorized selection of over 300 essential quotations, many previously unpublished, including quotes from his unpublished autobiography and his personal letters to his wife and family, to Malaika Adero at Atria, by Doug Abrams of Idea Architects on behalf of The Nelson Mandela Foundation and PQ Blackwell.

Foreign rights: Katec@curtisbrown.co.uk

General/Other

Film, TV and stage actress Gina Gershon's untitled collection of true stories about her beloved cat Cleo, and the other cats in her life, and how the love of her pets reflects and/or sometimes eclipses her romantic relationships, to Lauren Marino at Gotham, in a pre-empt by David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects (World). Foreign: Sabila.khan@us.penguingroup.com

UK

Prix Napoleon-winning author and Oxford Professor Sudhir Hazareesingh's HOW THE FRENCH THINK, making sense of the rich world of French intellectual, social and political ideas, highlighting the long-term features, evolution over time and continuing cultural manifestations in contemporary France, to Stuart Proffitt at Penguin Press UK, in a very nice deal, by James Gill at United Agents (World).

Rights: Sarah Hunt-Cooke (sarah.huntcooke@uk.penguingroup.com)

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