RARA-AVIS: Joe R. Lansdale Moves to Knopf

From: Frederick Zackel ( fzackel@wcnet.org)
Date: 25 Jun 2001


from Publishers Weekly http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20010625_96067.asp Edgar Winner Moves to Knopf Joe R. Lansdale, whose mystery The Bottoms won this year's Edgar Award for best novel, is moving from Mysterious Press to Knopf, where Sonny Mehta has just made a mid-six-figure deal, U.S. and Canada, for his next two books with agent Jimmy Vines. The first in the deal, scheduled for 2003, is Sunset and Sawdust and is a thriller set in East Texas during the Depression, about a woman who kills her abusive sheriff husband in self-defense, then takes over his job and is faced with a murder that points to her.

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