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Can Canon Entertainment Do for Briggs what HBO Is Doing for Harris?

According to Publishers' Weekly, Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson series has been picked up by 50 Canon Entertainment.
Deets for the fans:
50 Canon is run by Mark Newell who has an eclectic directing background.  His portfolio includes Four Weddings and a Funeral (loved*) and Pushing Tin (liked) and the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (never watched).  Perhaps [...]

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Aspiring Author Attempts Own Auction

Aspiring Author Attempts Own Auction

An enterprising author offers up his book for auction on eBay. The auction, entitled “Offering the Rights to My Book” starts with a bid of $5,000.00 and free shipping.
The book has apparently already been sold to a publisher and is set to be published this coming month (September), but the rights (unclear [...]

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Why Do the Young Adult Books Sound More Interesting to Me than the Adult Books?

Definitely a buy for me.
Joyce Lebra’s THE SCENT OF SAKE, about a 19th century Japanese woman who overcomes tremendous obstacles to build a sake empire and a family dynasty at a time when women were forbidden to do business, to Carrie Feron at William Morrow, at auction, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary [...]

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The Far East Is Hot and So Are the Young Adults

Being pop culturally deficient, I can say I’ve never seen either Ocean’s 11 or Veronica Mars so I don’t know what the book could possibly be like.
NYT bestselling author of CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY and I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU Ally Carter’s next Gallagher [...]

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Epic story sales that may or may not put me to sleep

I’ve sadly been falling down on posting these. I logged in today at Publishers’ Marketplace and saw that there were 455 new deals since I had last checked. Zoinks.
I think I read one Jane Green book. Why do I think she writes about infidelity alot?
Three more books by British writer Jane Green, [...]

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Elizabeth Hoyt’s Deal for 4 More Books and Other Sales

This looks hilarious.
Drew Ferguson’s THE SCREWED-UP LIFE OF CHARLIE THE SECOND, about a dorky seventeen-year-old who can’t pass his driver’s test, can’t stand his overbearing parents, can’t stop masturbating, and, most of all, can’t find a guy to make out with, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, by Jennifer DeChiara at the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency [...]

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Bloggers, Insiders, and Demon Sales

I keep saying I need to read her.
THE ALIBI MAN author Tami Hoag’s three new suspense novels, again to Nita Taublib and Danielle Perez at Bantam Dell, by Jane Rotrosen Agency.

Woot! I have no idea what Shift is about but I am sure it is good.
Nalini Singh’s SHIFT plus two [...]

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