Digital news:
- eBooks bring almost $1 billion in trade publishing sales growth.
- Smashwords breaks down their 2012 sales numbers.
- Top three sellers in Digital Book World’s $.99 – $2.99 eBook bestseller list are self-published.
Traditional news:
- PublishersLunch lists more Fall/Winter Buzz Books.
- New details from the DOJ in their preparation for trial.
Just Plain Awesome:
- Flavorwire reveals handwritten book outlines by famous authors, including this one from J.K. Rowling.
- A seventy year-old poem spreads to nearly 1,500 Little League baseball fields.
Client News:
- Laurie sells Tricia Skinner’s ANGEL KIN to Danielle Rose Poiesz at Entangled Edge, in a two-book deal, for publication in 2014.
- Our client Julianne Donaldson wins two Whitney Awards—Best Romance and Best First Book–both for her debut, Edenbrooke.
- Laurie signs award-winning hybrid author Michael J. Sullivan as a client to sell print and subsidiary rights for his new science fiction thriller Hollow World.
- New York Times and USA Today bestselling YA author (and our client) Julie Kagawa’s The Eternity Cure debuted April 30th.
- Our client Marni Bates’ book trailer for Invisible is recommended in USA Today’s Happily Ever After column.
- Clients Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris have started a Kickstarter for their Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences steampunk anthology and RPG board game.
- Our client Karice Bolton is on a blog tour to promote the recent releases of her stand alone YA thriller, The Camp, and the third book in her New Adult Witch Avenue series, Released Souls; plus, she teases you about her upcoming Witch Avenue fourth novel: Shattered Souls. Check it out for a chance to win a Kindle Fire!
