Book to Film Deals, Week of February 26, 2018

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Book to Film Deals, Week of February 26, 2018

Makeready, the studio owned by former New Regency CEO Brad Weston, has preempted film rights to Freefall by Jessica Barry (HarperCollins, 2019), a novel about a woman who is racing to protect her mother, in a seven-figure deal. (Deadline Hollywood). Stephen King's narrative poem The Bone
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IACP Rescinds 2018 Cookbook of the Year Award After Backlash

The backstory: Martha Holmberg — a longtime cookbook author — also leads IACP, which has been doling out awards to publications, publishers, and authors for 40 years. Holmberg co-wrote Portland-based chef Joshua McFadden's Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables, a book that was
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Florida Survivors Looking At Book Deals To Push Gun Message

According to TMZ, at least two of the outspoken survivors have been in talks with publishers for book deals. The deals haven't been inked but the students are in the meeting phase with book publishers. TMZ also reports that some of the students have been getting help from high-profile publicists to field
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Creative Writing Club

Join us for our first creative writing club meeting where we'll discuss upcoming events and involvement. You'll also meet other CCD students and work on some creative writing prompts. For more information, please contact Jeff Becker or Tyler Peyton.
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Gig Harbor artist making a name in children's books

In the ultra-competitive, hard-to-break-into world of book publishing, it's very unusual for someone who's just 22 years old, from little old Gig Harbor, to have three illustration contracts from a major publisher even before she graduated from college, Robbins said. “That's almost unheard of. And I'm so
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Authors Mobilize Children's Book Community to March on March 24

Using the hashtag #KidLitMarchesforKids, two YA authors, Jenny Han and Raina Telgemeier, have taken the lead in organizing the children's book publishing community to join the #NeverAgain and #MarchforOurLives movement for gun control. Collaborating with the advocacy group Everytown for Gun
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Book deal is just 'purrfect' for author Carol as award-winning publishers roll out her new novel

Author Carol Thomas is celebrating after being told her latest novel, The Purrfect Pet Sitter, is to be published by an award-winning company. Her new book is to be published by Ruby Fiction and follows the success of her first novel, Crazy Over You. Carol attended a “meet the authors” event staged by
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International Hot Book Properties, Week of February 26, 2018

The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls, the first title in a middle grade series by Australian author Adam Cece, has sold to a number of publishers including Bayard (France), Salani (Italy), Lannoo (Netherlands), Castor de Papel (Portugal), and Duomo (Spain). Text Publishing in
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Ekushey Book Fair: Of poems and poetry books

To understand how poetry books are faring at the Book Fair, Dhaka Tribune spoke to two publishers and two poets. Robin Ahsan, publisher at Shrabon Publication, said they have launched seven poetry books – notable among them Mohammad Nurul Huda's book “Ami O Rohingya Shishu” and
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Festivity all around

People of all ages thronged the book fair yesterday to satiate their literary cravings and went home happy heaped with books. The publishers were upbeat too as the sales were high. And the festivity … So, rain could not damage any book,” said Md Tofazzol Hossain, publisher of Biswasahitya Bhaban.
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Pipeline #1078: Presidential Portrait and the Sad State of Comics Business

Sure, it might shore up page rates and stabilize things for a very short time, but as the economics of comics continues to slump and slowly degrade, either rates will just sink again, or publishers will go out of business or turn to IP farming in lieu of publishing. In the end, all comic book publishing is just
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