Rob Lowe's Memoirs Sold For $1 Million, but the Actor Has No Time to Write Them
Back when the writers' strike was keeping him out of work, actor Rob Lowe decided it'd be fun to write a book about his life. And so he wrote up a proposal, and with the help of Richard Abate of the...
View ArticleBook on the Number Seven Sold to Twelve
Former editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest Jackie Leo and Williams College math professor Edward Burger are teaming up to write a book about the history of the number ‘7’ for Twelve Books, an imprint of...
View ArticleTwelve to Publish Book on Israel by ex-Romney Adviser and Opinion Editor of...
Right-wing foreign policy expert/financier Dan Senor and his brother-in-law, the neoconservative Jerusalem Post editorial page editor Saul Singer, are writing a book together about Israel's performance...
View ArticleBarack Obama’s Blurb-o-Mat: ‘…Gripping!’; ‘…Best!…’; ‘…Reading!’
The Arts section of Wednesday’s New York Times carried an ad from Vintage Books for the new paperback edition of Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland. Across the top was a banner printed in comical all-caps:...
View ArticleLights! Camera! Act Younger! ‘Believable’ Teens Zoe, Chace, Liam Cast in Twelve
For the past couple of weeks, director Joel Schumacher has been shooting scenes for his upcoming film Twelve on the Upper East Side. The movie is based on Nick McDonnell’s 2002 novel of the same title...
View ArticleHow The Times and Andrea Mitchell Made Today Difficult For Jonathan Karp and...
People at the Hachette Book Group building winced this morning as the New York Times published a highlight reel from the embargoed Ted Kennedy memoir that Jonathan Karp will be publishing through his...
View ArticleNotes from BEA: At Little, Brown’s Twelve Booth
“You’re not giving these away?” asked a hopeful young woman from an educational publishing company. “Well,” replied publisher and editor in chief Jonathan Karp, “who are you?” He handed over the...
View ArticleTwelve-Stepper: How Cary Goldstein Went From Publicist to Publisher
Last November, the boutique imprint Twelve had a party at La Fonda del Sol restaurant. The venue is just above Grand Central Station and down the street from Grand Central Publishing, the Hachette...
View ArticleDeb Futter Will Replace Cary Goldstein As Publisher Of Twelve
Cary Goldstein Twelve's Cary Goldstein is stepping down after two years as the publisher for Hachette's literary imprint, Jaime Raab, the president and publisher of Grand Central Publishing, announced...
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