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By Leon Neyfakh 4/10/08 4:30pm

Heroes Creator Tim Kring Writing Trilogy With … Dale Peck! Sold to Crown for $3 Million

Heroes creator Tim Kring is collaborating with literary critic and novelist Dale Peck on a sci-fi/alternative-history trilogy that was sold at auction to Crown yesterday for an advance said to be worth a staggering $3 million.

According to an industry source, the book is set in America, and runs from the 1960s to the Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 11/08/07 9:38pm

Historian Beschloss Leaves Simon & Schuster for Crown

Bestselling presidential historian Michael Beschloss, most recently the author of Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How they Changed America, has left Simon & Schuster to sign a deal with Crown, a division of Random House, according to several publishing sources.

Mr. Beschloss’ last book for Simon & Schuster was edited by Michael Korda, who Read More

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