BRAND NEW BOOK NEWS: Postcards From Yo Momma
Blook news! Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose have bagged a book deal based on their blog of mom emails, Postcards from Yo Momma.
Hyperion editor Gretchen Young bought the book at auction and is planning to market it as a Mother's Day gift book.
[Via Galleycat]
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Posted by Sarah Painter on May 1, 2008 in American Authors, Book News, Book Websites, Non Fiction, You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (0)
BRAND NEW BOOK NEWS: Dead Beautiful
Columbia MFA student Yvonne Woon's Dead Beautiful, a teenage zombie love story. [via Publishers Marketplace]
Okay, first of all - "Columbia MFA student" makes me sigh. I don't have anything against really young people writing books, it just makes me envy their confidence and determination. Which kind of makes me bitter. But then I find the words "a teenage zombie love story" deeply thrilling. I don't know why. How about you?
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Posted by Keris Stainton on March 7, 2008 in You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (1)
BRAND NEW BOOK NEWS: A Book for Carley
Tanya Egan Gibson's novel is the story of Carley, a young girl living in the insular community of Long Island's North Shore. As she struggles between her unrequited love for her best friend, her parents' decide to buy her a love of reading by commissioning a desperate novelist to write a book especially for Carley's 16th birthday.
I like this idea because I like reading about writers, but I know that irritates some people. What do you think?
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Posted by Keris Stainton on March 3, 2008 in You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (0)
BRAND NEW BOOK NEWS: The Celeb Diaries: Tears, Tantrums and Excess
Mark Frith, editor at heat magazine, has stepped down from his job in order to write a book called The Celeb Diaries: Tears, Tantrums and Excess.
Frith promises to dish the never-seen-before dirt (sorry, 'anecdotes') from celebrity culture. A behind-the-scenes peek from his days at the gossip magazine that will include the likes of Robbie Wiliams, Sharon Osbourne and the Beckhams. Cor.
[Via Bookseller]
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Posted by Sarah Painter on February 28, 2008 in Book News, British Authors, Non Fiction, You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (4)
BRAND NEW BOOK NEWS: Supergirl
Daphne Uviller's Supergirl, in which an overly-educated 27-year-old discovers that all the degrees in the world are no help when she becomes the superintendent of a Greenwich Village building whose former super was taken away in handcuffs. [via Publishers Marketplace]
Sounds a lot like Meg Cabot's Heather Wells series, don't you think?
Posted by Keris Stainton on February 26, 2008 in You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (0)
BRAND NEW BOOK NEWS: The Nobodies Album
I loved Carolyn Parkhurst's first novel, Lorelei's Secret (called The Dogs of Babel in the US) and her second, Lost and Found, was highly recommended by Jennifer Weiner.
Parkhurst's third book, The Nobodies Album, won't be out until Spring 2010, but it sounds great. It's about a former bestselling novelist who has re-written the endings to all of her novels and in doing so, has removed clues about her personal life that had been hidden within. When her estranged, rock star son is accused of murder, she endeavors to find out the truth: about the murder, and about the secrets of their shared past.
This news reminded me to check for an update on the Dogs of Babel movie, but apart from the fact that it's to be directed by Todd "Old School" Phillips, nothing doing.
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Posted by Keris Stainton on February 12, 2008 in You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (0)
BRAND NEW BOOK NEWS: Nothing But Good Times Ahead
Eep! I just heard that a book of academic essays on Jennifer Crusie's work is being written. Yep, it's not even got a publisher, yet; that's how new this book news is!
Titled Nothing But Good Times Ahead: The Novels of Jennifer Crusie, the book is edited by Eric Murphy Selinger and Laura Vivanco. It's going to cover topics like ageing, feminism, and symbolism in Crusie's work. We will keep you posted...
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Posted by Sarah Painter on February 4, 2008 in American Authors, Book News, Non Fiction, You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (2)
BRAND NEW BOOK NEWS: Ordinary Karma & Entertaining Disasters
Kim Wright's Ordinary Karma, due to be published Spring 2010, is the story of a woman torn between her safe but stale marriage and a long distance affair - and how her choices affect the other women in her suburban book club. Yes, another book club book.
Entertaining Disasters by Nancy Spiller features a Southern California food writer who has long been serving up fictional dinner parties as fact having to face her first real dinner party in a decade while all hell breaks loose in her personal life. I like the sound of this one - could be Jennifer Crusie meets Nora Ephron. Or not. We'll have to wait and see.
[via Publishers Marketplace]
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Posted by Keris Stainton on January 25, 2008 in You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (0)
You heard it here first!
Welcome to the first of an occasional series in which we tell you about newly-signed books.
First up is Sheila Curran's Lucy Vargas Is Coming Around, in which four women band together to protect their late friend's widower and children from the ravages of grief, rapacious relatives, and wicked stepmothers.
Wicked stepmothers? Sounds like fairy tale chick lit to me!
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Posted by Keris Stainton on January 8, 2008 in You heard it here first! | Permalink | Comments (0)
