What happens after you’ve written a worldwide bestseller? Well, for Dava
Sobel, author of Longitude, an auction for your next books, reports Publishers
Weekly, and publishers scrambling to produce copycat titles using her winning
formula of a scientific topic combined with a short, dramatic tale. Sobel’s next
books will be Galileo’s Daughter, due out in autumn 1998, and Nine Lives, a
study of the planets.
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