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Brexit leads new Bluffer’s series M
WORDS Natasha Onwuemezi
ANUAL PUBLISHER HAYNES has given a new look to its recently acquired Bluffer’s Guides series in a bid to reinvigorate
the brand. The buyout of Bluffer’s Guides was the first publishing list acquisition that Haynes has made in 20 years, and its first outside the automotive books sector. The publisher will be commission- ing new titles as well as reprinting the backlist with the intention of rebuilding the Bluffer’s Guides into an internationally bestselling publish- ing programme, a Haynes spokesperson said. Aſter purchasing the list for a “low five-figures”, the company has put “significant investment” into rebranding and marketing the new series, with Haynes’ Iain Wakefield heading the new Bluffer’s imprint. Along with a new branded website, Bluffer’s Guides books are intended as a starting point for readers to understand various topics. The titles will be available in print and e-book format, and will be on sale from June, priced £6.99. Kicking off the new Bluff- er’s Guide line-up is The Bluffer’s Guide to Brexit, writen by journalist and author Boris Starling. . Jeremy Yates-Round, managing
A Bluffer’s Guide to Brexit is to be published as part of the series’ new programme
director of Haynes Consumer, said: “It made total sense for us to relaunch the brand with a dynamic new look and feel to keep Bluffer’s Guides front of mind for consumers.
“The brand new Bluffer’s Guide to Brexit, spearheading the launch, encapsulates the new direction for the brand perfectly: the book demystifies the complexities of the biggest political event of our genera- tion, filtering out the politically motivated commentary to stick with unbiased but entertaining facts.”
Colfer to write Fowl spin-off series
Eoin Colfer is to write an Artemis Fowl spin-off series. Two new novels will focus on Artemis’ younger brothers, Myles and Beckett: in The Fowl Twins, after being left alone for one night, they end up having to save a troll from a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun, both of whom want the magical creature for their own sinister purposes. Stephanie Lurie, editor-at-large at Disney-Hyperion, acquired US rights, with Rachel Denwood, publisher at HarperCollins Children’s Books, buying UK and Commonwealth rights to The Fowl Twins, and one other title, from Sophie Hicks at the Sophie Hicks Literary Agency. Colfer said: “I can’t wait for a whole new generation of readers to immerse themselves in the magical adventures of Myles and Beckett.” The Fowl Twins will be released in 2020, with Disney-Hyperion to release repackaged editions of the second Artemis Fowl series from October 2018. Colfer’s Fowl titles have sold more than 25 million copies around the world to date.
Started from the Bottomley: Nic is new BA president
Nic Bottomley, co-owner of Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath, has been elected president of the Booksellers Asso- ciation (BA), succeeding Rosamund de la Hay, owner of The Mainstreet Trading Company in St Boswell’s. Bottomley hailed de la Hay’s “logistical and clear”
presidential approach at the BA annual general meeting on Tuesday (10th April) as he took up his new role. Maria Dickenson, m.d. of Dubray Books, and Andy Rossiter of Rossiter Books were voted in as vice- presidents. During the a.g.m., chief executive Tim God-
fray formally stepped down from his role after 33 years, with Meryl Halls to lead the trade body as its m.d. De la
Hay said the BA was “incredibly lucky” to have been able to call on Godfray’s “wealth of experience”, adding: “I don’t think I know anyone who works harder than Tim.”
Floody hell! Harper seals global deal for novel
HarperCollins has scooped world rights to Kassandra Montag’s After the Flood, a “riveting saga about a mother, her daughters, and their struggle to survive”. The deal was negotiated by Rachel Kahan, executive editor at Wil- liam Morrow, with Victoria Sand- ers at Victoria Sanders & Associ- ates. HC will publish through its Global Publishing Programme, with Borough Press to issue it in the UK. The TV option is with Chernin Entertainment.
Trollope
Mulliken apologises for Trollope intro
Tony Mulliken of Midas PR has apologised for “crass and offen- sive” remarks aſter introducing bestselling author Joanna Trol- lope at a panel discussion on marketing and PR at yesterday’s London Book Fair as some- one he would “like to snog”. Mulliken acknowledged he had “missed the mark”. Author Clare Mackintosh, who was in the audience, tweeted her anger in a post that was shared widely on social media. She said she was “revolted” by the “reductive and inappropriate” remarks. Mulliken told The Bookseller
Daily: “I was wrong to introduce Joanna Trollope as I did... I have the utmost respect for her and I was trying to reference a recent interview Trollope gave in an irreverent and light-hearted way but I realise that what I said not only missed that mark, but was crass and offensive. I am sorry if I offended Joanna, many in the audience, as well as my colleagues. I have apologised to Joanna directly and unreserv- edly. I have also spoken to Clare Mackintosh and apologised.” Trollope declined to comment.
Lessons from Putin picked up by Canongate
Vladimir Putin: Life Coach, edited by Rob Sears—who compiled the Christmas 2017 hit, The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump —has been signed by Canongate. Senior commissioning editor Hannah Knowles acquired world all-language rights from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown. The pub- lisher said the title has “advice on hacking democracy at the PTA, to annexing territory by claiming communal areas as your personal empire”.
Sphere acquires tie-ins to Vanity Fair titles
Sphere’s non-fiction and fiction lists have acquired world rights in two tie-ins to a “major” new ITV/Amazon drama series: the adaptation of William Thacker- ay’s biting satire Vanity Fair, co-produced by Mammoth Screen in the UK and Amazon Studios in the US. Non-fiction publisher Adam Strange acquired The World of Vanity Fair, while Ed Wood on Sphere’s fic- tion team will publish the tie-in edition of the original novel.
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