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A message from InkWell Management regarding Bill Belichick’s upcoming book, THE ART OF WINNING.

A message from InkWell Management regarding Bill Belichick's upcoming book, THE ART OF WINNING.

In his upcoming book, THE ART OF WINNING: LESSONS FROM A LIFE IN FOOTBALL, Bill Belichick includes a chapter on how to handle communications as a leader, drawing on his decades of experience speaking to players, coaches, and staff about how to set aside individual agendas and differences to come together as a team. On a football team, there is one and one goal only: to win. His book (and his career) has therefore been dominated by questions about how to win, how to find winners, and how to motivate an organization to prioritize winning above all else. It’s not easy. That’s why no one has done it at the level that Bill Belichick has.

But of course, getting clicks is easier than getting wins.

Earlier this month, Bill sat down with CBS Sunday Morning to discuss his book, his life in football, and his perspective on how he has done his job. The nature and orientation of the discussion was known in advance to Bill and to CBS. And indeed, Bill did talk football.

But the segment that was shown to the public veered into a discussion of Bill’s personal life and away from the subject of his book, resulting in a raft of hostile social media posts about his personal life.

Bill has written an authoritative and entertaining book about success that should be judged by its contents, not by the clicks generated by the segment.

VOWS is one of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2024

Congrats, Cheryl Mendelson!

Link here!

FLAVORAMA named one of the New York Times Best Cookbooks of 2024

    December 11, 2024 | News about

Congrats, Arielle Johnson!

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InkWell authors listed on New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2024!

WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE by John Ganz WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE? by Sophie Kinsella

Full list here!

Cover reveal for L.A. WOMEN in People!

"Two female writers are willing to do whatever it takes to reach success in 1960s Hollywood, in Berman's third novel."

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Elin Hilderbrand is Nantucket’s Person of the Year

"N Magazine caught up with Hilderbrand on the heels of her Netflix hit"

Article here!

WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE is one of Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of 2024!

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SHIVER is heading to the Big Screen!

"Maddie Ziegler & Levi Miller To Topline YA Fantasy ‘Shiver’ Based On Maggie Stiefvater Bestseller"

Article here!

DEVIL IS FINE has been longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize!

"DEVIL IS FINE is a gripping, surreal and brilliantly crafted dissection of the legacies we leave behind and those we inherit."

Article here

Julia Flynn Siler in National Geographic

"Why dark skies are actually good for your health"

Article here!

THE UNDOING OF ALEJANDRO VELASCO in People!

    November 05, 2024 | News about

"Actor Diego Boneta Announces His Debut Novel"

Link here!

Hannah Brown Announces New Romance Novel, in People!

The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain will be published on June 24, 2025

Article here!

THE GIRL IN THE LAKE by Lauren Oliver coming to the big screen

with Scarlett Johansson to Produce & Potentially Star

​Announcement here!

David Kwong shares two mind-reading magic tricks on the Today show!

alongside 12-year-old magician Rachel Ling Gordon

Watch here!

Cover reveal & Excerpt from OUR LAST RESORT in People!

"A new gripping suspense is on the way from the author of the blockbuster THE QUIET TENANT."

Link here!

THE INVENTION OF GOOD AND EVIL reviewed in The Economist

"How humans invented good and evil, and may reinvent both"

Article here!

THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE reviewed in the Wall Street Journal

"Radium, Marie Curie and her husband discovered, destroyed diseased cells faster than healthy ones. Could the element fight cancer?"

Review here!

Matthew FitzSimmons in Parade!

"Genius or Madness? Matthew FitzSimmons on His New Thriller"

Article here!

Patrick Spero’s THE SCIENTIST TURNED SPY reviewed in the Wall Street Journal

Article Here!

SEAFOOD SIMPLE has won the IACP Cookbook Award in the Chefs & Restaurants category!

Congrats, Eric Ripert!

List here!

HOW TO SURVIVE A BEAR ATTACK excerpted in CBC!

    September 24, 2024 | News about

Claire Cameron's book will be released on March 25, 2025

Link here!

THE QUIET TENANT is coming to the small screen!

Anthony Zuiker Adapting For TV With Charlize Theron & Dawn Olmstead’s Secret Menu And Blumhouse

Deadline Annoucement HERE

THE PERFFECT COUPLE Netflix series Debuts at No. 1 With 20.3 Million Views

The TV adaptation is based on the novel by Elin Hilderbrand

Article here!

THE PERFECT COUPLE - TV show adaptation featured in the Guardian

"Nicole Kidman’s gorgeous murder mystery is ludicrously good"

​Article here!

Amy Poehler mentions EXCAVATIONS on Late Night with Seth Meyers

    August 27, 2024 | News about

Amy Poehler Talks About Her Recent Reads

Video here!

InkWell authors longlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize!

Congrats to LATE BLOOMERS and COLTON GENTRY'S THIRD ACT!

Full list here

Several InkWell clients have been longlisted for FT & Schroders Business Book of the Year

    August 22, 2024 | News about

Congrats to all!

Longlist here!

HORROR MOVIE by Paul Tremblay in TV Guide

"10 Best New Horror Books for Spooky Season in 2024"

List here!

Philip Nel in School Library Journal

"What would Crockett Johnson think of the new movie adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon? His biographer weighs in."

Article here!

WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE by John Ganz on President Obama’s Summer Reading List!

Full list here!

Zoje Stage in Writer’s Digest

"How I Was Saved by a Book"

Article here!

“Cursed Gold: A Shipwreck Scandal” Coming Soon To Disney+ & Hulu

based on Gary Kinder's SHIP OF GOLD IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Article here!

Krysten Ritter’s new novel RETREAT, featured in People!

The Breaking Bad actress announced that she will publish her second novel in 2025. The book is co-written with Lindsay Jamieson.

Article here!

THIS EARTHLY GLOBE by Andrea di Robilant reviewed in the Wall Street Journal

"Renaissance authorities restricted access to geographic discoveries. A Venetian scholar set out to unveil them in print."

Review here!

NO ORDINARY ASSIGNMENT is a finalist for the 2024 Ann M. Sperber Book Prize

Congrats, Jane!

Article here!

Trailer for THE PERFECT COUPLE on Netflix!

Based on the novel by Elin Hilderbrand

Watch here!

John Vercher’s DEVIL IS FINE is the NPR Book of the Day!

"'Devil Is Fine' explores race, colonialism and grief through magical realism."

Link here!

Essay by Adam Kuper in the New York Times

Adam is the author of THE MUSEUM OF OTHER PEOPLE.

Article here!

Sunita Kumar Nair on CBS Sunday Morning

To discuss her book, "CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion."

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WE COULD BE HEROES featured in the New York Times

"4 Fun, Flirty New Romance Novels"

Full list here!

HORROR MOVIE is a New York Times bestseller!

Congrats, Paul Tremblay!

Elin Hilderbrand on CBS News

on the release of SWAN SONG!

Link here

DOPPELGANGER by Naomi Klein has won the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction!

Congrats, Naomi!

Article here

WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE in the New York Times

“When the Clock Broke is one of those rarest of books: unflaggingly entertaining while never losing sight of its moral core.”

​Full article here!

Giancarlo Esposito will be releasing an upcoming memoir, as detailed by Variety!

    June 04, 2024 | News about

"The actor, who memorably played Gus Fring on 'Breaking Bad' and its spin-off 'Better Call Saul,' has sold his memoir after a bidding war."

Article here!

DARK MATTER is currently the #1 show on streaming!

Congrats, Blake Crouch!

Link here!

The Next Big Idea Club picks Maggie Jackson’s UNCERTAIN as their next pick!

The Next Big Idea Club turns the latest and greatest nonfiction into “Book Bites,” short audio summaries read aloud by authors.

Article here

Elin Hilderbrand in the Wall Street Journal

"The Queen of the Beach Read Hangs Up Her Bikini"

Article here!

InkWell author Susan Kaufman interviewed in the New York Times

"Take a Walk Through the Hamptons With a Photographer and Her iPhone"

Article here!

InkWell author Katie Engelhart has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing!

"Katie Engelhart has won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for a story about dementia — and what happens to a person’s wishes as they slip into cognitive decline."

Article here!

Brittney Griner’s memoir COMING HOME, written with Michelle Burford, in the New York Times

"Her memoir documents her harrowing ordeal in Russia and her return home"

Full article here!

Robinne Lee in TIME on THE IDEA OF YOU

"Reducing The Idea of You to Fan Fiction Is Another Example of Dismissing Women’s Art"

Full article here!

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s ON THE ROOFTOP featured in People Magazine

Books that pair perfectly with Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department album!

Full article here!

Jason Roberts’ EVERY LIVING THING selected as a NYT Editors’ Choice

"Vivid double biography"

Link here!

Blake Crouch in Vanity Fair!

'A look inside the brain-bending adaptation of Blake Crouch’s best-selling novel, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.'

Full article here!

NEW COLD WARS by David Sanger reviewed in the New York Times

'Vividly captures the view from Washington'

Read here!

David Yeager, author of 10 to 25, on Huberman Lab

    April 18, 2024 | News about

'How to Master Growth Mindset to Improve Performance'

Listen here!

Jason Roberts’ EVERY LIVING THING in the New York Times

Full review here!

Paul Tremblay’s middle-grade debut, ANOTHER, is Publishers Weekly’s Deal of the Week!

Link here!

Lionel Shriver’s MANIA in the Boston Globe

'Shriver skewers the present anti-intellectual moment in a not-so-alternative account of the past'

Full review here!

Starred PW review for VOWS by Cheryl Mendelson

    April 01, 2024 | News about

"An illuminating deep dive into the meaning of wedding vows."

Full review here!

CLIMATE CAPITALISM on wbur

Interview with author Akshat Rathi

Full article here!

Angela Duckworth and Marc Brackett

in Conversation!

Watch here!

MISTAKES WE NEVER MADE by Hannah Brown in the New York Post

    March 06, 2024 | News about

One of the "most-anticipated reads of not only the month, but the year"

Full article here!

THE IDEA OF YOU - movie trailer!

starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, and streaming on Prime Video May 2nd

Trailer here!

WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE received a starred review from Publishers Weekly

    February 29, 2024 | News about

"This is a revelation."

Full review here

Article by Kathryn Schulz in The New Yorker

"What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to our Planet"

Article here!

GET THE PICTURE is a New York Times bestseller!

Congrats, Bianca!

Andrew Pettegree’s THE BOOK AT WAR in The New Yorker

"From Homer to Gaza, the History of Books in Wartime"

Article here

THE INVOCATIONS is an instant NYT Bestseller!

Congrats, Krystal!

DARK MATTER coming to the small screen!

Coming from Apple TV in May

Teaser here

Bianca Bosker in the Guardian!

"‘I felt like an FBI agent’: the author who infiltrated the art world"

Full article here!

Nimona is an Oscar Nominee!

For Best Animated Feature Film

A FRAGILE ENCHANTMENT is a New York Times bestseller!

Congrats, Allison Saft!

Full list here

HOW TO BE A RENAISSANCE WOMAN reviewed in the New York Times

    January 11, 2024 | News about

"Deceptively breezy and readable portrait of 16th-century Italy through the lens of beauty standards and practices."

​Review here!

RANGER’S APPRENTICE is coming to the big screen!

"Skydance has taken on the challenge of turning the bestselling YA fantasy novel series Ranger’s Apprentice into a live action film"

Article here!

Happy Holidays from InkWell!

    December 19, 2023 | News about

We wish you a wonderful rest of the year.

LAURA DEAN KEEPS BREAKING UP WITH ME is headed to the big screen!

    December 14, 2023 | News about

Tommy Dorfman Set To Direct Film Adaptation Of Mariko Tamaki’s Graphic Novel

Announcement here!

NYT’s Best Book Covers of 2023

    December 12, 2023 | News about

feat. “Your Driver Is Waiting,” by Priya Guns!

Article here!

FALLING ROCKET reviewed in the New York Times

"Paul Thomas Murphy’s “Falling Rocket” focuses on the explosive trial that divided the London art world."

Review here

Bianca Bosker in The Atlantic

author of GET THE PICTURE

Article here!

BEFORE WE WERE INNOCENT is the Reese’s Book Club pick for December!

Congrats to author Ella Berman!

Article here

TED Talk by Jane Ferguson, author of NO ORDINARY ASSIGNMENT

"Life on the frontlines of war reporting."

Watch here!

FAST CHARLIE trailer, starring Pierce Brosnan

based on the book by Victor Gischler

Watch here!

Sara Alfageeh on Forbes’ 30 Under 30!

Category: Games

Full list here

AARP Webinar with Dr. Adam Rosenbluth!

    November 20, 2023 | News about

"If Patients Only Knew: Insider Tips from a Doctor."

​Tune in on Dec 6!

DOPPELGANGER on Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023

"Klein’s writing...weaves cultural criticism with personal anecdotes and self-examination into a book that’s bold enough to propose that we will all someday emerge from the rubble of the crumbling world"

Full list here!

DID I EVER TELL YOU THIS? on Audible’s list of Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2023

Memoir by Sam Neill

Full list here!

InkWell Titles in the opening round of the Goodreads Choice Awards!

    November 16, 2023 | News about

TOGETHER WE ROT, THE FIVE-STAR WEEEKEND, IT WAS AN UGLY COUCH ANYWAYS, HIDDEN POTENTIAL, DOPPELGANGER,

Vote here!

ABC News spoke with author Tim Marshall about his new book “The Future of Geography”

'The future of international relations could shape the geography of space.'

Video here!

GEORGE by Frieda Hughes in Oprah Daily

'Best Memoirs of 2023'

Full list here

Essay by Sunita Kumar Nair in Vanity Fair!

“Carolyn’s natural beauty is disarming and pervades through every picture,” the author of CBK, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion writes of the late style icon.

Full article here!

Starred PW review for Andrew Hunter Murray’s The Sanctuary

"Near-future thrillers don’t come much better than this stellar effort from Murray."

Full review here!

Marie Enger & Nadia Shammas win a 2023 Ignyte Award

For 'Best Comics Team' on WHERE BLACK STARS RISE

Full list here!

‘The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived’ excerpted in Rolling Stone

authors Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman tell the story of Tom Watson Jr. and how IBM launched the Digital Age

Excerpt here!

EMPEROR OF ROME reviewed in the New York Times

"The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales."

Review here!

THE BEAST YOU ARE by Paul Tremblay in Oprah Daily

"Five of the Season’s Spookiest New Books"

Full list here

THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN LE CARRÉ by Adam Sisman excerpted in Vanity Fair

"The Love Letters of John le Carré"

Excerpt here

Rashid Khalidi’s recent op-ed in the New York Times

Rashid Khalidi is the author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.

Article here!

Helen Garner reviewed in the New York Times

"With the republication of “The Children’s Bach,” a 1984 novel, and “This House of Grief,” a 2014 account of a murder trial, the Australian writer Helen Garner is ripe for discovery by American readers."

Review here!

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