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Fall 2013 September – December BLOOMSBURY USA SEPTEMBER 2013 BloomsBury Fall 2013 september – december BLOOMSBURY USA SEPTEMBER 2013 ROY G. BIV An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color Jude Stewart A stunning and original reference on the colors of the rainbow, from Sweden’s “black socks of envy” to Britain’s pink-colored machismo. ART / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 9/17/2013 Color is all around us every day. We use it to interpret the world—red means 9781608196135 | $18.00 / $19.00 Can. stop, blue means water, orange means construction. But it is also written into our Hardback | 176 pages | Carton Qty: metaphors, of speech and thought alike: yellow means cowardice; green means 7.000 in W | 7.244 in H Colour envy—unless you’re in Germany, where yellow means envy, and you can be “beat up green and yellow.” Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Translation, Audio Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, digs into this rich subject with gusto. Film/TV: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary What color is the universe? We might say it’s black, but astrophysicists think it Agency might be turquoise. Unless it’s beige. To read about color from Jude Stewart is to unlock a whole different way of looking at the world around us—and bringing it MARKETING all vividly to life. Social media campaign at publication on Bloomsbury accounts, Pinterest The book itself is organized around the rainbow and is lavishly designed, with and Tumblr sites cross-references that liven up each page. (Follow the thread of imperialism, for Shareable infographics available on example, from the pink-colored colonies on maps of the British Empire to the Bloomsbury.com green wallpaper that might have killed Napoleon.) A lovingly packaged, distinctive Print and online feature and review book, it will be the only one of its kind. coverage Gift book roundups ROY G. BIV is a reference and inspiration for designers and artists, as well as a Author events in Chicago region unique, beautiful, and irresistible book for just about anyone. Jude Stewart writes about design and culture for Slate, The Believer, Fast Company, GOOD, I.D., and other publications. She also writes a blog about color for PRINT. She lives in Chicago. Her website is www.judestewart.com. 2 The Bone Season Samantha Shannon A major event—the first book in a seven-part series of dizzying imagination. Welcome to Scion: No Safer Place. It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing. But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city—Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly—as soldiers in their army. Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives. The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine—a young woman learning to harness her powers in a world where everything has been taken from her. It also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut. Samantha Shannon was born and raised in West London. She’s currently pursuing her degree in English literature at the University of Oxford. The Bone Season is her first published work of fiction—the first in a seven-book series. It has been sold in eighteen countries and film rights have been optioned by The Imaginarium Studios, a film company led by Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings; The Hobbit) and Jonathan Cavendish (producer of Bridget Jones’s Diary). Follow Samantha on Twitter: @say_shannon; and on her blog: www.samantha-shannon.blogspot.com 3 MARKETING Six-figure blockbuster global campaign ADS: National print/online consumer ad campaign Book club marketing campaign PROMO: Featured at Winter Institute and BEA Viral teaser trailers revealed May and August Social media campaigns Pre-pub online buzz campaign Early online review campaign Major blogger outreach campaign Website http://www.boneseasonbooks.com/ PUBLICITY: Pre-pub media event in NYC National review campaign; Major coverage in all media outlets Radio broadcast campaign; Fall book roundups PRAISE "A dark and exquisitely rendered fantasy unlike anything out there. THE BONE SEASON is a must-read." - Kami Garcia, coauthor of the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES series "[A] dazzlingly brainy, witty, and bewitching tale of outrageous courage, heroic compassion, transcendent love, and the quest for freedom...the first in a thoughtful fantasy series by a brilliant young writer." - Booklist (starred review) "What a ride! Imagination on that scale is exhilarating. I didn't FICTION / GENERAL just like this book, I loved it." -- Ben McNally, Ben McNally Bloomsbury USA | 8/20/2013 9781620401392 | $24.00 / $25.00 Can. Books, Toronto Hardback | 480 pages | Carton Qty: "This book is for those who like their dystopian science fiction 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H multilayered, philosophical, and complex." -- Kirkus Reviews Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Audio, Serial Film/TV, Translation: David Godwin Associates 4 BLOOMSBURY USA AUGUST 2013 Rambunctious Garden Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World Emma Marris “Remarkable . Emma Marris explores [the] paradox that . the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.” —The Wall Street Journal A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the “rambunctious garden,” a hybrid of wild nature and NATURE / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 8/20/2013 human management. In this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and 9781608194544 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Paperback / softback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems. Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Second Rambunctious Garden brings home the idea that we must give up our romantic serial, Translation, Audio notions of pristine wilderness and embrace the romantic notion of a global half- Film/TV: Scovil Galen Ghosh wild rambunctious garden, tended by us. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608190324 PRAISE MARKETING “Marris is a whip-smart writer . already being compared to the greatest environmental Social media campaign at publication; writers and thinkers of the past century, Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold.” —San giveaways Francisco Chronicle Coverage in paperback columns “An insightful analysis of the thinking that informs nature conservation.” —The Focused outreach to gardening, green, and local-interesting bloggers Economist “Potentially the most optimistic and controversial work about the future of nature to appear in years.” —Grist.org “What may be the most important book about the environment in a generation.” —Idaho Statesman Emma Marris grew up in Seattle, Washington. Since 2004, she has written for the world’s foremost science journal, Nature, on ecology, conservation biology, and other topics. Her articles have also appeared in Wired, OnEarth, and Conservation. She currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, with her husband and two children. 5 BLOOMSBURY USA SEPTEMBER 2013 On the Trail of Genghis Khan An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads Tim Cope An unforgettable story of one man’s journey across the vast Eurasian steppe that will recall Rory Stewart’s bestselling The Places in Between. Guided by a Kazakh aphorism—“To understand the wolf, you must put the skin of a wolf on and look through its eyes”—adventurer Tim Cope undertook a journey not successfully completed since the days of Genghis Khan: he traveled by horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from the ancient capital of Mongolia to the Danube River in Hungary. It was an incredible six-thousand- mile, three-year-long trip across formidable landscape—and into the heart of the BIOGRAPHY & nomadic way of life that dominated this region for thousands of years, AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL transforming Western Europe through its conquering armies. MEMOIRS Bloomsbury USA | 9/24/2013 9781608190720 | $28.00 / $29.50 Can. Cope’s trek takes him through wolf-infested plateaus, over glaciers and the Hardback | 496 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H subzero “starving steppe,” the scorching Kazakh desert, and the deep forests and 2 8-page color inserts, b&w throughout treacherous mountains of the Carpathians. Alone except for a trusty dog (and a succession of thirteen horses, many stolen from him), he encounters incredible Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Translation, Audio hospitality from those who welcome him along the way, a tradition that is the Film/TV: Gail Ross Agency linchpin of human survival on the steppe. Immersed in the land and its people, Other Available Formats: Cope is witness to the rich past and often painful complexities of the present still Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608194469 recovering from Soviet rule. On the Trail of Genghis Khan is a celebration and an elegy for the nomadic way of life—its freedom, its closeness to the land, its MARKETING animals, and moods—and a narrative full of romance, intelligence, and drama.
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