Publisher’s Weekly provides the details:
James Levine at Levine Greenberg Literary Agency has accepted several preempts for Richard Florida’s Reset: How the Economic Crisis Will Forever Change Our Economy, Society, and the Way We Live. Hollis Heimbouch took the title in the U.S. for HarperCollins. Preemptive offers were also accepted in Canada from Random House Canada, with Anne Collins editing; and in Brazil from Caroline Rothmuller at Campus/Elsevier via International Editors, Inc. Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class was a bestseller for Basic.
I could not be more excited to be working with such an exceptional publishing team.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Congratulations! I’d guess they want a short timeline for something this topical.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Michael – Thanks. The goal is to complete the manuscript this summer and have it out sometime in winter-spring of 2010. My hunch is that the current reset will last quite a bit longer than that. R
April 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
This should just phenomenal. More on the creative economy, I hope.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Nice. Way to go, Richard.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Congrats, can’t wait to read it!
April 18th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Congrats. Will this discuss your “home town” of Pittsburgh like Creative Class?
April 20th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I was just at my dentist and saw a few weeks old TIME mag with a cover article called “Reset” which talked about the economy and noticed that the author had used your title. I didn’t read it all, but he did talk about the move from financial manipulation to “artisan” companies.
As your post says, I’m sure this is going to last much longer. I was thinking that the economic change is in the news a lot and is timely. It will still be changing next year and late next decade but might not be as fresh.