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New “4-hour” advice from Tim Ferriss

Want to sleep only two hours a day (and feel fully rested)? Work less and make more money? Workout less and gain more muscle? Timothy Ferriss, self-help guru and self-promoter extraordinaire—author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body—has you … Continue reading

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Kathleen Kent announces 3rd book

Kathleen Kent, New York Times bestselling author of Salem-set The Heretic’s Daughter and its later prequel The Wolves of Andover, has just announced plans for her third book, Middle Bayou. Her first two books, twisting history with mysticism, traced back … Continue reading

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From big literary fiction to an unexpected debut

Here at BookPage, we follow an industry database of book deals called Publishers Marketplace. Deals run from obscure foreign rights to multi-million dollar film deals, highly-anticipated literary novels, celebrity memoirs and more. It’s always interesting to start the day by … Continue reading

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And the YA deals keep coming…

Just two days after I blogged about Starcrossed, the high school Greek tragedy billed as “a Percy Jackson for teenage girls,” another huge YA deal goes through. Dutton Children’s Books (a Penguin imprint) has paid six figures to publish The … Continue reading

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"Dexter" for teens?

Young adult author Barry Lyga recently signed a deal with Little, Brown for a book that Publisher’s Marketplace described as “‘Dexter’ meets ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ for teens, about a teen boy who uses his killer instinct, inherited from … Continue reading

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Big bucks for Bray

We were happy to hear that Libba Bray has signed a contract with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to write a new YA series for major bucks—$2 million, rumor has it. Editor Megan Tingley (who also publishes Stephenie Meyer) … Continue reading

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Phoning it in

From the what’s-the-world-coming-to-department comes news that Simon & Schuster has signed a deal for a series of three books based on an iPhone app. Is this a first? I think so (but I could be wrong — leave a comment … Continue reading

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