Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Latest from The Bookseller

Tinder by Sally Gardner and David Roberts (Orion Children’s Books) is in the running for a double CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway win after appearing on both shortlists, announced today (17th March).
The book, which is a reworking of the Tinderbox fairytale, could also be Gardner’s second Carnegie medal. She picked up the award for Maggot Moon (Hot Key Books) in 2013.
Joss Stirling’s Struck (Oxford University Press) has become the first YA novel to be awarded the prize for Romantic Novel of the Year by the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA).
At the association's annual awards (RoNAs), held this evening (16th March) in London, Jill Mansell and Carole Matthews were also presented with outstanding achievement awards for their “continued championing of the RNA and romantic fiction”.
The sequel to the bestselling Girl Online novel by YouTube star Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella, is scheduled for release on the 19th November. 
Penguin has given few details about the book but 'Girl Online 2' will be published in hardback, priced at £12.99, and the main characters Penny, Noah and Elliot will all reappear.
Book printers Clays Ltd is sponsoring a UK-wide promotion for The Folio Prize, taking in libraries, bookshops and social media.
Clays has backed a publicity push that has recruited 100 independent booksellers to spotlight the shortlisted titles, while, in partnership with The Reading Agency, more than 200 libraries will also be showcasing the prize. One hundred Waterstones branches are also involved, with Clays also supporting window displays in key Foyles stores.
Michael Joseph has pulled a recipe book by health blogger and author Belle Gibson after she failed to give sufficient information in response to a series of claims levelled at her.
Gibson’s The Whole Pantry, based on an app she created following a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, was due to be released in the UK next month.
E-books are being included in the Sainsbury’s Nectar Rewards Double Up promotion for the first time. 
The popular promotion sees customers able to double points on their Nectar reward cards at the same time as get “massive” discounts on e-books from Wednesday (18th March) for  a period of two weeks. 
Customers can double the value of their accumulated Nectar points during the Rewards Double Up period by exchanging them for vouchers worth £10, £20, £30 or £40 to spend on a Sainsbury’s in-store products.
Ruth Huddleston, a former sales and marketing director of Templar Publishing, and her husband, author and illustrator David Ellwand, are launching their own publishing company, Old Barn Books
The company will publish seven titles this year, including three pre-school photographic board books by Ellwand  - Bluebell Bears (April, £6.99), Wake Up, Alfred! (May, £6.99) and Racing Bears (June, £6.99).
Roger Cox, arts editor for the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, will absorb the book review commissioning role at the newspapers when current literary editor David Robinson departs at the end of this month.  
Cox told The Bookseller: "Obviously these are difficult times for newspapers – David decided to take voluntary redundancy before Christmas and, as budgets are tight, I was asked to take on his responsibilities in addition to my own." 
Transworld has acquired a debut novel and two others by former journalist Fiona Barton in a “hotly contested” auction. 
Frankie Gray, senior commissioning editor at Transworld, won British Commonwealth rights including Canada to The Widow from Madeleine Milburn at the Madeleine Milburn Agency.
The Widow tells the story of Jean Taylor, whose husband was accused of abducting a two-year-old girl. Now he is dead, Jean is preparing to tell the story that’s been haunting her through an exclusive with a national newspaper. 
Pan Macmillan is to publish the memoir of Daphne Selfe, the world’s oldest supermodel.
Georgina Morley, non-fiction editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to The Way We Wore from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown.
Musician Jack White's publishing imprint Third Man Books has signed a distribution deal for North America with Consortium.

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