Mark Whitaker’s COSBY: HIS LIFE AND TIMES was named one of Amazon’s top 100 Books for 2014. Simon & Schuster published the book on September 16, 2014.
Kelly Bowen has been nominated for a 2014 reviewers’ choice award by RT Book Reviews in the category of Best First Historical Romance. Forever will publish the book on December 16, 2014.
Six publishers participated in an auction for rights to the book conducted on October 24 by Hilburn’s literary representative, Luke Janklow of Janklow & Nesbit Associates. “When one of the greatest songwriters alive agrees to talk to one of the most respected music writers at work, that’s an irresistible combination,” said Jonathan Karp, President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster, who acquired World English rights to the work along with senior editor Jofie Ferrari-Adler.
While MTV is the network you'll see SHANNARA in the U.S., television networks around the world are fighting for the right to air SHANNARA in their respective country. The first of the international networks has just been announced: Herbert L. Kloiber’s TMG has acquired the rights for German-speaking Europe from Sonar Entertainment.
10% Happier has been nominated for a Goodreads Readers Choice Award. The nominations reflect what books readers were actually reading and discussing throughout this past year. Goodreads analyzes statistics from the 275 million books added, rated, and reviewed on the site this year to nominate books in 20 categories, ranging from Historical Fiction to Food & Cookbooks. 10% HAPPIER is nominated in Non Fiction. IT books published the book in hardcover March 11, 2014.
Pulitzer Prize winning author, John Branch’s thought-provoking book about the life and death of hockey enforcer Derek Boorgaard has been selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best nonfiction books of the year 2014. Norton published the hardcover on October 1st, 2014.
Laura Kipnis’ MEN is in this month’s New York Magazine feature by Boris Kachka, “7 Books You Need to Read This November”. Says Kachka, “The gender-centered essayist and author of Against Love turns her female gaze on the other gender, filing free-flowing musings on Ron Gallela, Tiger Woods, Larry Flynt, and many others under four rubrics: operators, neurotics, sex fiends, and haters.
Jan Ellison’s A SMALL INDISCRETION received a rave review from Kirkus, saying, “Ellison's debut novel is an emotional thriller of the Anita Shreve variety, with revelations that continue and relationships that evolve until the final pages. Ellison keeps the mystery going by switching … in a way that fiendishly answers only one question at a time. Connoisseurs of domestic suspense will finish this book in a few breathless sittings, then wait eagerly for Ellison's next trick.” Random House publishes the book on January 27, 2015.
BookRiot says of The Heart Does Not Grow Back, “I love dark and weird, and this book doesn't get much darker or weirder. A+++.”
Tor has announced a sweepstakes for the book. Please comment at the link for a chance to win: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/11/the-heart-does-not-grow-back-sweepstak… The sweepstakes ends November 8th at 12:00 PM ET. Picador published the book on November 4, 2014.
Alan Cumming’s bold and brave memoir is ranked #14 on the Combined Print & E-book and #15 in Hardcover nonfiction on the New York Times Bestseller List for the week of 11/02/14. Dey St. published the hardcover Oct. 7, 2014.