The auction for David Plouffe’s account of the 2008 campaign has ended, and the winner is Viking Books. According to the AP’s Hillel Italie, who first reported news of the deal this morning, the Penguin Group imprint is paying Mr. Plouffe a sum in between $1.5 and $2 million dollars. Robert Barnett, the Washington Read More
Viking beat out seven other houses the other day in the battle for Angelology, the debut novel by Falling Through the Earth author Danielle Trussoni that’s supposed to have massive commercial appeal and sell a gazillion copies just like The Da Vinci Code. According to Publishers Weekly, which reported yesterday that the deal was Read More
When Pam Dorman decided this past May to return to Viking Books—where she’d been an editor for 19 years—she had not been gone for very long. It was just two and a half years ago, in January 2006, when she announced she would be leaving to start her own boutique imprint at Hyperion.
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