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AEI DEALS |
James Michael Pratt’s "The Lost Valentine" in preproduction with Hallmark Hall of Fame, AEI & Paulist Productions, starring Betty White, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Tantor Audio has bought the audio rights to Jerry Blaine and Lisa McCubbin's The Kennedy Detail
"Queen of Urban Erotica" Noire in a significant deal for 3
novels and a novella with Kensington's Dafina imprint (Selena
James) by Ken Atchity for AEI
AEI, Discovery, & Renegade83 to produce "The Kennedy Detail,"
a 2-hour Sunday night special based on the book by Jerry Blaine
& Lisa McCubbin
AEI, Sundance, & Renegade 38 will partner to produce Teman
& Teran, a docu-series following identical twin artists Teman
and Teran Evans
AEI has signed a deal with Intelligent Life Productions to
develop & produce 6 web series based on its clients properties
Ballantine has sold Noire's backlist, starting from her forthcoming
Unzipped, for audio books to E-1 Music
N. American rights to Lisa McCubbin's The Kennedy Detail
sold to Simon and Schuster's Gallery Books
Stuart Connelly has sold a biographical account of Clarence
Brown's weekend with Martin Luther King before the "I Have
a Dream" speech to Macmillan Palgrave
Turkish rights to Alaya Johnson's forthcoming flappers-era
creatures of the night novel, Moonshine, to Pegasus
Publishing House by AEI/Baror Int'l
Greek rights to Dracula: The Un-Dead sold to Harlenic
Hellas S.A. by Baror International for AEI
Dennis Palumbo's Mirror Image has sold to Poisoned
Pen Press
Darby Roach's The 3-Second Window has been sold to
MorganJames Publishing
AEI has signed a multi-picture deal with Informant Media and
Picture Park Entertainment to produce foreign-friendly films
in the $3mm-$8mm range
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| LITERARY MANAGEMENT: OUTSIDE THE BOX |
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Book-Launch Consulting for Self-Publishing Authors
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As the paradigms in the book market are shifting, I've been progressively frustrated by my inability to spend sufficient time with my own self-published clients, and I'm sure they've shared my frustration!
After experiencing the torture of submission to the regular publishers and the uncertainties of the marketplace even when regular publishers do get involved, more and more authors are, quite properly, taking their literary fates in their own hands and getting their books in front of readers by the most direct routes possible. That means one form or another of self-publishing, an honorable tradition, by the way, that goes all the way back to classical Greece.
Because of detail-intensive, experience-based challenges like this one, where we have much to offer, many ways we can help, AEI is now offering a new "book launch service" for our self-published clients, where we coach, guard, and guide them through the marketing, platform-building, dealing with publicists, foreign rights, contests and awards, etc.
We're already doing it for several clients, who are finding it productive. Drop Dr. Atchity a line if you're interested.
We're very efficient with our use of time and frugal in billing against it, btw. We love giving your books the full attention they deserve, and are happy to have found a way to do so. |
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