Publishing News Awards March 1-15, 2004 Edition AWARDS Paris Review Names First Winner of New Prize 2/23/04—Yiyun Li has earned The Paris Review's new Plimpton Prize for her story Immortality. The prize recognizes the best writing by a newcomer to appear in...

Publishing News Book Deals March 1-15, 2004 Edition BOOK DEALS Book Deals for Late February These deals and more are reported for mid to late February, 2004. Look for more deals in our next Authorlink edition, courtesy of PublishersLunch.com. Deals are rated as...

Publishing News General News March 1-15, 2004 Edition GENERAL NEWS Tyndale Reports Heavy Sales for The Passion Carol Stream, IL/2/25/04—Tyndale House Publishers, the Christian publisher, reports that it has sold 150,000 copies of their color movie tie-in book...

Publishing News People March 1-15, 2004 Edition PEOPLE HarperCollins Streamlines Sales Unit With Marwell at Helm Josh Marwell, formerly senior vice president of sales for HarperCollins adult imprints, will now head the newly-unified sales division of HarperCollins,...

Publishing News Film/TV March 1-15, 2004 Edition FILM/TV Moyers to Depart TV Post to Pen Book on LAB Bill Moyers has announced he will retire from television broadcasting before the end of the year to write a biography of his former boss, the late President Lyndon...

Authorlink Successes SUCCESSES An Updated Report on Selected Authorlink Successes This is a partial list of authors who have recently sold work as a result of having been listed with Authorlink (http://www.authorlink.com). See more like these in our full news...

Publishing News Book Deals February 15-29, 2004 Edition BOOK DEALS THE NINTH DAY OF LOUS DRAX TO BE DIRECTED BY MINGHELLA LOS ANGELES, CA/2/5/04—Anthony Minghella, director of COLD MOUNTAIN, will write and direct a screen adaptation of Liz Jensen's soon-to-be-released...

Publishing News Awards February 15-29, 2004 Edition AWARDS Bausch, Freudenberger Jointly Receive PEN/Malamud Award 2/5/04—Richard Bausch, author of The Stories of Richard Bausch (HarperCollins), and Nell Freudenberger, author of Lucky Girls, have jointly been...

Publishing News People February 15-29, 2004 Edition PEOPLE Little, Brown Names Shander Editor-in-Chief of Adult Trade NEW YORK, NY/2/6/04—Geoff Shandler has been promoted to editor-in-chief of the adult trade division at Little, Brown. He succeeds Michael...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 15-29, 2004 Edition HarperCollins Reports Healthy Sales Growth NEW YORK, NY/2/11/04—HarperCollins, which began the first quarter of 2003 with sluggish sales, has seen a 4.6 percent increase in revenues over the last three fiscal...