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EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of a hot 2020 which saw Blitz Bazawule’s Beyonce visual album Black Is King debut on Disney+, in addition to scoring the directing gig for The Color Purple feature musical, the filmmaker’s debut novel The Scent of Burnt Flowers has just been acquired by Ballantine Books. Senior Editor Chelcee…

EXCLUSIVE Ballantine Books has acquired world English rights to Into The Dark, a book that the publisher says will, for the first time, chronicle last summer’s rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team from a flooded Thai cave in the actual words of everyone directly involved. Susanna Porter is Ballantine’s acquiring…

Jay and Mark Duplass — whose fiefdom as writers, directors, actors and producers includes HBO’s Togetherness and Amazon’s Transparent — have closed a deal with Ballantine Books to publish an untitled essay collection in 2017. The busy sibs (whose second season of Togetherness is set to premiere in February and whose An…