- Henry Holt and Company has inked a deal to buy Time magazine editor-at-large Catherine Mayers new biography of longtime heir-apparent Charles, Prince of Wales. Mayer spent a year doing research forBorn to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor, spending time with friends of Charles, palace insiders and the royal himself. The book will be slightly pared down fromthe U.K./international edition from WH Allen.Born to Be Kingreveals Prince Charles in all his complexity, according to Holt, giving fresh and fascinating insights into the first marriage that did so much to define himwith Princess Diana,who died in a car accident in 1997, as well as his current wife, Duchess Camilla. The biography is set to be published in February 2015. [Publishers Weekly]

- Helen Macdonald has won BritainsSamuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction with her autobiographicalH Is for Hawk,a book unlike any other, in the words of the judges.Hawk, the first memoir to ever win the 20,000 prize,is about how the poet and historians passion for the bird of prey helped her grieve herfathers death.The book at heart is a love letter also to nature and the world around us, said Macdonald.I ended up feeling like I was more like a hawk than a person. It really made me think very deeply about life and death. This was also anotableyear for the prizebecauseit marked the first time that the shortlist includedmore women than menthree out of five. [BBC News]

- Ebook library and streaming subscription service Scribd announced via press release today that it will enhanceits catalog of over half a million titleswith a whopping 30,000 new audiobooks.Theaudio additionswill include popular releases old and new fromScholastic, HarperCollins, and Blackstone and Naxos by authors like Cormac McCarthy, Eckhart Tolle, Haruki Murakami and Suzanne Collins. This has been one of our most popular requests and were excited to reach book lovers wherever they are and however they choose to read or listen,said co-founder and CEO Trip Adler. [GalleyCat]

-New York TimesjournalistStephanie Clifford inked a seven figure deal with St. Martins Press for her debut novelEverybody Rise. Though the book isnt due to hit shelves until 2016, it is already being adapted to the screen by Fox 2000 and producer Karen Rosenfelt (The Devil Wears Prada, Twilight). The novel,set inthe viperous social worldof a young woman in2006 Manhattan, was described bySMP Executive Editor Charles Spicer as Edith Wharton meets The Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century. [New York Daily News].

- Bestselling novelistDanielle Steel is continuing her prolific career with a new 10-book deal with Ballantine Bantam Dell, a Penguin Random House imprint. With 650 million of her92 titles in print around the worldevery single one a bestsellerSteel is the top sellingauthor alive. BBD is already set to put out four Steel novels next year. [Publishers Weekly]

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