Latest in Book Publishing Deals

EXCLUSIVE: Bloomsbury Children's Books has acquired Havenfall, a highly anticipated new project from Sara Holland, the author whose first two novels, Everless and Evermore, skyrocketed up the New York Times bestsellers list and established her as a major new star of the YA fantasy scene. Described as a lush, gothic…

Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, whose credits include the fourth through seven Saw installments as well as the upcoming Hellraiser remake and the sequel Piranha 3 Double D, are moving into publishing with a Little Brown deal for their first novel, Blacklight. The book is the story of a ghost hunter private eye with…

AOL Inc., Mark Burnett, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Coalition Films have entered a digital production agreement to co-develop a series of comedic video shorts based on CliffsNotes Literature Guides, published by Wiley. Showcased on AOL.com this year will be the works of Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Charles…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, out on bail after an arrest for an alleged sex crime, has made a deal to write his memoirs for Random House’s Alfred A. Knopf label, and UK’s Canongate Books. More territorial sales will bring in additional revenue for a guy who has become a world famous figure reviled on Capitol…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures acquired screen rights to Out of Range, a book proposal for a two-book mystery that will be written by Hank Steinberg, the creator of the CBS series Without A Trace. The movie sale came after the novel was set up in a high six-figure deal at Harper Collins on the basis of the proposal and…

The 80s punk rock singer's autobiography is under offer in France, Germany and Finland, having sold already to Simon & Schuster in the US and UK in a high six-figure deal. Dancing With Myself – the title comes from his early hit single — is being repped by Cathryn Summerhayes at William Morris Endeavor in London. The…

I’ve been looking into what are the hottest overseas titles being sold at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair. David Bowie is due to deliver his illustrated book Bowie: Object to his agent Andrew Wylie in December. So Wylie is telling publishers at Frankfurt that it's the first in a series of books by Bowie and I'm told…

Breaking News… Random House Publishing Group chief Gina Centrello and Ballantine publisher Libby McGuire and editor in chief Jennifer Hershey have won an auction for the next six books to be written by Debbie Macomber, the prolific romance novelist who is leaving a run at Harlequin. Deal was seven-figures for each…

EXCLUSIVE: The deals are popping this week, and publishing is not immune. On the basis of a 4-page proposal, Alfred Knopf’s Sonny Mehta has paid $2.5 million for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the new novel by Kiran Desai. She’s the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss. Robin Desser is the…

Bestselling author Daniel Silva has left a long run at Putnam and made a 3-book deal at HarperCollins. I toldja that Silva left ICM to sign with D.C. attorney Robert Barnett at Williams & Connolly, in anticipation of shopping for the new deal. Silva was locked in by Harper senior vice president Jonathan Burnham and…