![]() ![]() “You look at ‘Marley & Me,’ and that book has been a publishing phenomenon,” Ms. “You can’t underestimate the market out there for people who love animals,” said Karen Kosztolnyik, the senior editor at Grand Central who will edit the book co-authors will be Vicki Myron, the head librarian in Spencer, Iowa and Bret Witter, a former editorial director at Health Communications, the publisher of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books. With an eye toward creating the feline answer to the best-selling “Marley & Me,” John Grogan’s memoir of his misbehaving yellow Labrador retriever, Grand Central bought the book, currently titled “Dewey, a Small Town, a Library and the World’s Most Beloved Cat,” on Monday by making an offer high enough to pre-emptively shut down an auction. ![]() ![]() In a hotly contested deal, the life story of Dewey, a rescued cat who lived for 19 years in a library in a small town in Iowa, has sold for about $1.25 million to Grand Central Publishing. ![]()
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