Dead and Gone :Penguin Group Achieves Success in 2009

For the last edition of Spotlight of the year, we wanted to take a look back at some of the highlights from among Penguin Group (USA)’s extraordinary 2009 successes.

Great 2009 Publishing Stories Led by Bestsellers from Charlaine Harris, Kathryn Stockett, Nora Roberts, and Greg Mortenson

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris and the other eight books in her Sookie Stackhouse mystery series have sold more than 10 million copies. Harris made publishing history in 2009 when all nine of the books in the series were on the New York Times bestseller lists simultaneously in the same week twice in August. Her books spent a combined 169 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in 2009, and she had at least one New York Times bestseller 76% of the year. She became a full-fledged pop phenomenon with the arrival of the second season of the hit HBO television show, “True Blood,” which is based on Harris’s novels and continues to help drive her ongoing success.

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/blogs/penguin-group-usa-achieves-success-2009