Knopf acquires title two hours after receiving manuscript
Anne Collins, publisher of the Knopf Random Canada Publishing Group, was so thrilled by her latest acquisition that she released a YouTube video to explain why. Into the Abyss, by journalist Carol Shaben, recounts the 1984 crash of a Piper Navajo commuter plane in northern Canada. Shaben’s father, a cabinet minister, was one of the survivors. Collins made a pre-emptive offer on the manuscript just two and a half hours* after agent Jackie Kaiser sent the submission out to publishers. The book is scheduled to be published in 2012.
*Memo to aspiring authors: this almost never, ever happens. It probably won’t happen to you. But keep up the good fight!
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