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Ben Dunn, md at Blink Publishing Susan Lewis is moving from
(Kings Road/Bonnier Publishing), has Century and Arrow to
won a nine-way transatlantic auction HarperFiction in a six-book deal
to sign a memoir by Roger Daltrey, worth seven figures. Kate Elton,
singer with The Who. Blink has executive publisher for
world rights from Jonny Geller at HarperFiction, HarperNonFiction
Curtis Brown, and has sold NA & Avon, and Kimberley Young,
rightsin another nine-way auction HarperFiction publishing, partnered
to Stephen Rubin, president and with Liate Stehlik at William
publisher at Henry Holt. The US sale Morrow in the US for the world
was handled by Amelia Evans, senior rights deal, negotiated through
rights manager at Kings Road. The Luigi Bonomi at LBA.
book is due in autumn next year.
Daltrey said: Its great that Ive Rogers Coleridge & White (RCW)
found a young enthusiastic publisher, Roger Daltrey Susan Lewis and the Agency (London) Ltd
an upstart in the world of books, to publish my story. It feels like the right have been announced as the new literary executors of the estate of
fit. Ive always resisted the urge to do the memoir but now, finally, I feel Raymond Chandler. The estate was previously represented by Ed
Ive enough perspective. Dunn said: Roger Daltrey has written a quite Victor Ltd, now part of Curtis Brown following Ed Victors death
brilliant memoir: engaging, funny and filled with amazing anecdotes; its earlier this year.
one of the last great untold rock legends, and we are so pleased that Roger
has chosen Blink Publishing to help tell his fascinating tale. Arrow (Cornerstone/Penguin Random House) is to publish Darker:
Fifty Shades Darker by EL James, the second Fifty Shades title told
Orion secured four major deals for Chris McGeorges high concept crime from Christian Greys point of view, on 28 November, in paperback,
novel, Guess Who?, ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Francesca Pathak, senior ebook and audio. Publication will be simultaneous with Vintage in the
commissioning editor at Orion Fiction, had bought world rights in Guess US, Penguin Random House Canada, and soon after in territories round
Who? through Hannah Sheppard at DHH Literary Agency; the publisher is the world. Susan Sandon, managing director of Cornerstone, bought
billing McGeorge as the new king of the locked room mystery. HarperCollins UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in Darker from
bought NA rights at auction, Droemer pre-empted in Germany, and there Valerie Hoskins of VHA Ltd in London. Foreign rights are handled by
are also deals in the Czech Republic (Euromedia) and Slovakia (Ikar). ILA in London.
Celebrating
Child by Christian White. The deal was negotiated by Linda Kaplan of
Kaplan/Defiore Rights on behalf of Affirm Press, and there are already
rights deals in 10 territories. The Nowhere Child won Australias
25
Victorian Premiers Award, previous winners of which include bestsellers
The Dry by Jane Harper and The Rosie Project by Graham Simsion. The
novel (early 2019) opens with a life-changing discovery by an Australian
photographer, and then takes the reader back to small-town Kentucky,
where over two decades earlier the disappearance of a young child has
terrible consequences. Wisdom said: I am always looking for distinct
Years
voices and Christian White certainly has that.
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Come by
6.0, A72 & A Markets panel in the Business Club looked at womens
say hello! issues in the publishing workplace.
Left to right: JaneTappuni (IPR License), Arpita Das (Yoda
Press), Sophie de Closets (Fayard), Xandra Ramos-Padilla
(Anvil Bookstore, Anvil Publishing), Tracey Armstrong
newharbingerpublications (Copyright Clearance Centre), Vicky Williams (Emerald
1-800-748-6273 / newharbinger.com Group, Research Media).
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shortcomings of analogue distribution. Ebooks, fortunately, are During 2016, profits from subscription platforms, especially
not so encumbered, and thanks to digital distribution, Spanish in Mexico, the US and Germany, became increasingly relevant
publishers are discovering that with ebooks, they are not limited for Spanish publishers, surpassing 5% of total digital revenue,
to their local markets, but can benefit from international sales. when in 2015 it represented only 1%.
Each year, more Spanish and Latin American publishers are The recent arrival of leading entertainment and cultural
working to distribute their ebooks to Spanish readers in the US content platforms, like Netflix, HBO, Spotify and Storytel,
and with some 55 million Spanish speakers, the US market offers among others, is transforming the cultural habits of the
a significant opportunity. mainstream population and even altering avid readers
As a result, Latin American publishers such as Rey Naranjo behaviour. So the fall in print book sales in the Spanish
in Colombia, Amanuta in Chile, Malatetra and CIDCLI in market is not just due to the financial crisis. More and more
Mexico, among many others, have seen how their ebooks commentators believe that the new subscription culture will
are selling in previously hard-to-reach foreign markets. radically transform the consumers cultural habits in Spain
According to the Bookwire Report, 61% of independent and Latin America over the next decade.
Latin America-based publishers digital sales were made in If the Spanish publishing sector is to recover the 700
the Latin American continent, whereas 39% occurred in million euro turnover lost in the last decade, book industry
markets beyond that region: 25% in the USA, 8% in Spain, professionals will have to accept that the main channels of
5% in Europe and 1% in the rest of the world. growth may not involve the sale of print books, but rather
the sale of digital content in new consumption modelssuch
The new subscription culture? as subscription services, fragmented content or library
Although unit sales in online stores such as Amazon, Apple e-lending among others.
or Kobo continue to be the dominant business model,
Javier Celaya is a member of the executive board of the Digital Economy
library and subscription channels are becoming more and
Association of Spain, and CEO and founder of Dosdoce.com, an online
more relevant in the Spanish markets. portal that analyses the impact of new technologies in the publishing sector.
www.apa.org/pubs
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Many mystery readers in the US automatically footprints, and those of their horses in 1847s
consider their beloved genre as an Anglo- Le Vicomte de Bragelonne.
American creation, tracing the genres roots back And that Holmes-like figure? It is Maximilien
to Edgar Allan Poes The Murders in the Rue Heller, who actually debuted in 1871 in Henry
Morgue. But consider this: an investigator Cauvins The Killing Needle, over a decade
perfectly describes a fight solely by a close study before the appearance of Holmes in Doyles A
of the footprints left behind by its participants. Study in Scarlet.
Or this: a drug-taking, misanthropic private Cauvin was first published in English in 2014
detective with a gift for observation and logical by John Pugmires Locked Room International, a
deduction, knowledgeable about the chemical small publishing house at the forefront of making
and forensic science of the period, who was a quality French mysteries available to an English-
master of disguise, and whose amazing cases speaking audience, featuring Pugmires own
were narrated by his friend and confidant, a doctor. translations. Even Gaston Leroux, best known for The
Even the most devoted reader could be excused for Phantom of the Opera, wrote whodunits, including the all-
believing that those examples derive from the ne plus ultra time locked-room classic, 1907s The Mystery of the Yellow
of detective fictionArthur Conan Doyles immortal Room, the first in a series of seven featuring reporter
Sherlock Holmes, who debuted in 1887. But the first comes Joseph Rouletabille.
from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, the creator of The Three Locked Room International has also given English readers
Musketeers, whose series hero DArtagnan impressed King 15 books from the ingenious imagination of Paul Halter, a
Louis XVI by recreating a duel based on the duellists modern master of the impossible
crime puzzle, who carries on the
Golden Age legacy of John Dickson
Carr, most recently, in July 2017s
The Madmans Room, in which the
decision to unseal a supposedly-cursed
room leads to multiple murders whose
explanations apparently require
suspending the laws of science. Halter
and Dumasare both represented in
The Realm of the Impossible (August
2017), an anthology which Halter
co-edited with Brian Skupin.
In addition to Cauvin and Halter, Pugmire has published the
first English translations of Jean-Paul Toroks The Riddle of
Monte Verita, an ingenious locked-room murder mystery
published in 2012, and two works by the undeservedly-
obscure 1930s writer Noel Vindry: The House That Kills,
published in 2015 (in which there are witnesses to no less than
three impossible murders), and 2016s The Howling Beast, a
bravura piece of armchair detection. A
third Vindry, Double Alibi, is
scheduled for publication in 2018.
Locked Room International is not
the only publishing home for French
authors who integrate the fantastic
into their mysteries. French
historian, archaeologist and author
Frdrique Audoin-Rouzeau (who
uses the pen name Fred Vargas and
has drawn comparisons with John
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DRIVE GLOBAL SALES
eBooks & audiobooks
Diversity in action
The time for talking is over, now the real work b
publishing industry is activating change
After much hand-wringing
and many panel discussions,
it seems enough has been said
on the subject of diversity. A
We Are Quarto consensus has been reached.
No longer a box to be ticked,
being representative from
submissions to staff, and
authors to attitudes, is a
moral obligation that makes
business sense. In the UK,
there has been a wave of new Wei Ming Kam
inclusive imprints, company
initiatives, anthologies and prizes: a signal that changeboth
authentic and lastinghas started in earnest.
Money talks
A notably progressive move came in July, when Little, Brown
launched a new diverse imprint called Dialogue Books, with
Sharmaine Lovegrove as publisher. It aims to publish four to six
titles in its first full year, fiction and non-fiction, in areas under-
represented or not covered by the mainstream publishing
industry. Little, Brown CEO Charlie King said that the list was
a response both to a moral imperative and to a commercial
imperativea truth not universally acknowledged.
If more proof were needed that being representative nurtures a
healthy bottom line, Angie Thomass The Hate U Give (Walker),
inspired by Black Lives Matter, debuted at number one in the
New York Times Young Adult bestseller chart in February, has
remained on top since, and has also been a bestseller in the UK;
while The Good Immigrant (Unbound) convinced any remaining
sceptics of diversitys commercial value. Publishers need to wake
up to the fact that it is a commercial opportunity, insists Ace.
Missing a huge swathe of the population means people are
disenfranchised from reading. Were constantly worried about
selling books, but this is a really obvious way to convert huge
parts of the population to read books.
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Cautious optimism
While most of the publishing industry is united in acknowledging
that more needs to be done, the outlook is positive. Like many,
Wei Ming Kam is eager to see what happens next. I am certainly
Find us at hopeful, she says. Real change will become embedded in
Hall 6.0 publishing when an effort is made by those in power to change
Stand D53 historical institutional bias, and to bring that mentality to every
part of the business, not just in one or two departments.I think
its too early to tell if the changes that are happening now will
continue, but I am cautiously optimistic.
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Budget cuts: US
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For US public libraries, 2017 has been the year of living
Publishing in an Unpredictable World: dangerously, after the Trump administration proposed
Transforming Challenge into Opportunity eliminating federal funding for libraries in its initial budget
documents, writes Andrew Richard Albanese. But it appears
P RE SE NT ED B Y that neither the American publicnor Congresssupports the
presidents desire to gut library support. Following an intense,
grassroots campaign by library supporters, the House of
Representatives last month passed a package of FY2018
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DECEMBER 4, 2017 NEW YORK, NY The $1.2 trillion FY2018 budget bill (H.R. 3354) passed on
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Publishers Weekly and the Bologna Childrens Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which Trump
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conference about childrens and YA publishing about $183.6 million, largely doled out as grants to states. In
both here in the U.S. and abroad. addition, the House approved $27 million for the Department of
Educations Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) programme.
Global Kids Connect convenes the best lineup The crucial vote comes just three months after American
of expert speakers to educate publishing Library Association (ALA) officials told librarians at the ALAs
annual National Legislative Day that libraries were facing the
professionals and propel the next generation
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of publishing advancements. ALA officials said librarians and their supporters made a
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Global Kids Connect is the only U.S. half-day library supportincluding an unprecedented advocacy effort
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In a letter to Congress, the publishers were united by the
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editors, licensing agents, brand managers and in every corner of the country.
The budget battle is far from over, however, as the US Senate
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library funding enjoys strong support in the Senateand ALA
Included in your conference admission is
officials say libraries could even see a boost in the Senates
Celebration!, the annual party honoring recipients budget bill. The key, ALA officials stress, is remaining engaged,
of PW Children's Starred Reviews. continuing to reach out to lawmakers.
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