Roger Ebert Sells a Memoir to Grand Central

Roger Ebert has sold a memoir to Mitch Hoffman of Grand Central, in a deal brokered by Joel Gotler at Intellectual Property Group and announced last night on Publishers Marketplace. The book went for a sum in the high six figures at auction, and is due out in fall 2011.

The film-critic-turned-Twitter-fiend has been having Read More

Deb Futter Named Editor-in-Chief at Grand Central Publishing

Deb Futter will succeed Amy Einhorn as editor-in-chief of the hardcover division of Grand Central Publishing, it was announced today. Grand Central has been without an EIC since this summer, when Ms. Einhorn went to Putnam to lead her own imprint.

Ms. Futter comes to Grand Central from Doubleday, where she edited, among others, Read More