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EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has gone back to his roots for Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game. Just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book is a personal reminiscence, the coming of age of a great…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to David Henry Sterry’s memoir Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales, to develop as a series. Emmy-nominated Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) is set to pen the series adaptation and showrun the project…

A new book that will be serialized by the Times of London this weekend is giving a shocking insider view of the reasons behind Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s “Megxit” from the Royal Family and its duties. Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family is officially out Aug. 11. It claims…

Nina Dobrev and Made Up Stories have acquired the rights to Greer Macallister's novel Woman 99 to develop as a TV series starring the Vampire Diaries alum. Dobrev also will executive produce alongside Made Up Stories founder Bruna Papandrea. Historical thriller Woman 99 follows a young woman whose quest to free her…

EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling horror novelist Paul Tremblay, whose A Head Full Of Ghosts is set for a film adaptation directed by Scott Cooper, has signed a three-book deal with the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins. The publisher has acquired US and Canadian rights to three new books by the writer, the first of which…

Joanna Cole, whose Magic School Bus book series was beloved by millions of young readers and later turned into an animated television show, has died at age 75. Her publisher, Scholastic, said Cole, a resident of Sioux City, Iowa, died Sunday from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. "Joanna Cole had the perfect touch for…

Grand Central Publishing has acquired actor Andrew McCarthy’s memoir Brat: An '80s Story, set for publication in Spring 2021. "For years people have asked me, on a near daily basis, ‘What was it like back in the day?’,” McCarthy said in a statement. “Routinely, I’d offer up any number of stock responses. Finally I…

As reporters rushed to post many of the juicy anecdotes and scorching analysis from Mary Trump’s new book this past week, they might have missed that the memoir also is a media critique. In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, set to be published by Simon & Schuster on…

EXCLUSIVE: Provenance Films, a subsidiary of Provenance Ventures, has optioned the 2017 book Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge form author Erica Armstrong Dunbar for a feature. LaToya Morgan, whose writing credits include The Walking Dead, Into the Badlands, Shameless…

Phoebe Robinson, co-creator and co-host of the 2 Dope Queens podcast that was made into eight HBO specials and author of the bestselling You Can't Touch My Hair, is partnering with her publisher Plume to launch a new imprint. The imprint, Tiny Reparations Books, will publishing literary fiction and nonfiction as well…

Ready Player Two, novelist Ernest Cline’s sequel to his bestselling Ready Player One, will be published by Penguin Random House imprint Ballantine Books on Nov. 24 in North America, the publishing house announced today. The book can be pre-ordered beginning today. International publication dates will be announced in…

Nan A. Talese, President, Publisher and Editorial Director of her eponymous Doubleday imprint, will retire at the end of the year, bringing an end to one of publishing’s most celebrated careers that also included stints at Random House, Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin. Since starting her Nan A. Talese imprint at…