![]() ![]() The publisher compared the near-future-set novel, which Nintzel co-preempted with Suzie Dooré at HarperCollins UK’s Borough Press, to the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro and the film Ex Machina. World English rights to Annie Bot by Sierra Greer were acquired for mid-six figures by Kate Nintzel at Harper-Collins’s Mariner imprint. The publisher said that in the book, Johnson, who became the world’s first Black female billionaire, shares her “inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life.” Among other adversities, she overcame institutional racism in the boardroom, emotional abuse in her long-standing marriage, and the loss of a child to find “renewed purpose and meaning.” LaSharah Bunting, who is no longer at S&S, acquired the title Maria Mendez is now editing the book. ![]() Barnett at Williams & Connolly represented the entrepreneur and philanthropist in the world rights agreement. Sheila Johnson, a cofounder of BET, sold her memoir, Walk Through Fire, to Simon & Schuster. ![]()
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