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Longtime book editor Chuck Adams has died. He worked at Algonquin for 17 years, where one of his earliest acquisitions was Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, and he was presented with the Poets & Writers’ Editor’s Award in 2013. After retiring from Algonquin, he continued to work as a freelance editor. He started his publishing career at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, first taking editorial assignments at Dell and then Simon & Schuster, where he worked with Joseph Heller, Mary Higgins Clark, James Lee Burke, Clive Cussler, Sandra Brown, and Jackie Collins, among many others. Little, Brown writes: “Chuck was a friend …
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Charlotte B. Plumb's REAP & SOW, the first in a debut crossover duology set in a world of illicit pacts and dark magic about a young woman who bargains with a demon to save her brothers, only to lose her heart, too, to Jennifer Klonsky and Ruta Rimas at Berkley XO, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in October 2026, by Stuti Telidevara and Pete Knapp at Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management (NA). Rights also to Carmen McCullough at Penguin UK (UK), in a major deal, in a pre-empt, … read more
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