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A new Bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mekongga Mountains, South East Sulawesi, Indonesia
No full textRiyanto, Awal, Kurniati, Hellen, Engilis, Andrew (2016): A new Bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mekongga Mountains, South East Sulawesi, Indonesia. Zootaxa 4109 (1): 59-72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.1.
Cyrtodactylus hitchi Riyanto, Kurniati & Engilis, 2016, sp. nov.
No full textCyrtodactylus hitchi sp. nov. Riyanto, Kurniati & Engilis English common name: Hitch’s Bent-toed Gecko Indonesia common name: Cicak Jari Lengkung Hitch (Figs 2–6) Holotype. MZB.Lace. 8642, an adult male from Camp 3, desa Tinukari, kecamatan Wawo, kabupaten Kolaka Utara, Mekongga Mountains (03.6399o S; 121.14974 o E, 936 m asl), South East Sulawesi Province, Indonesia; collected by Hellen Kurniati and Wahyu Trilaksono on 3 December 2010. Paratypes. MZB.Lace. 8635 –36, 8640–41, 8643– 48, MWFB 1054, 1116, from between 0 3.635943 – 0 3.63994 o S; 121. 148971 – 121.16268 o E; alt.; 934–1103 m asl collected 25 November – 7 December 2010. Diagnosis. A small-sized Cyrtodactylus with SVL up to 70.3 mm in males, 79.0 mm in females; 18–20 irregularly aligned rows of keeled tubercles; 27–30 paravertebral tubercles; 40–45 ventral scales between ventrolateral folds; ventrolateral folds with tubercles; no precloacal groove; no precloacal pores; no enlarged femoral and precloacal scales; no femoral pores; 18–20 lamellae beneath fourth toe; smooth transition between rows of large and small postfemoral and ventral femoral scales; and greatly enlarged transverse median subcaudal scales arranged in a single row. Description of Holotype. An adult male, SVL 70.39 mm; head moderately long (HL/SVL= 0.30), relatively narrow (HW/HL= 0.65), depressed (HH/HL= 0.39), distinct from neck; lores and interorbital regions concave; canthus rostralis prominent and rounded; frontonasal region concave; snout elongate (ES/HL= 0.44), relatively pointed, longer than ED (ED/ES= 0.63). Scales on snout and forehead small, rounded, granular, homogeneous; eye large (ED/HL= 0.28) with vertical pupil; supraciliaries short; ear opening oval, large (EarL/HL= 0.15); EE>ED (EE/ ED= 0.93); rostral incompletely divided dorsally by a shallow Y-shaped groove; two enlarged supranasals separated from one another by a three intersupranasals, the supranasals and intersupranasal completely surrounded by the smaller scales; naris oval, bordered by rostral anteriorly, first supralabial ventrally, one supranasal dorsally, and three small postnasals posteriorly; orbit separated from supralabials by a row of small scales; mental triangular, wider (2.9 mm) than deep (1.9 mm), bordered anterolaterally by first infralabials and posteriorly by paired elongate primary postmentals that contact medially for 40 % of their posterior sections (Fig. 4 A); primary postmentals bordered by two enlarged secondary postmentals and three slightly large gular scales (Fig. 4 A); both right and left sides consist of 12 supralabials counted to the rictus, 9 counted to the midpoint of the eye; 10 infralabial scales counted to the rictus. Body elongate (AGL/SVL= 0.45); ventrolateral folds small, with scattered rounded tubercles; ventral region with relatively homogeneous, smooth scales; dorsal scales small, granular, with scattered irregular, relatively enlarged keeled tubercles; 20 irregular longitudinal rows of tubercles at midbody; smallest tubercles on flanks and in the frontal region; 19 irregular transverse rows of tubercles between limbs. Ventral scales much larger than dorsal scales, smooth, round, subimbricate, largest posteriorly; 42 ventral scale rows at midbody between ventrolateral folds; no precloacal groove; no precloacal pores; no enlarged femoral scales; no femoral pores; smooth transition between rows of large and small postfemoral and ventral femoral scales (Fig. 5 A); scales on palmar surfaces granular, juxtaposed; scales on plantar surfaces and hind limbs granular, juxtaposed. Forelimbs and hind limbs relatively robust (FL/SVL= 0.18; TBL/SVL= 0.19); digits well developed, inflected at basal interphalangeal joints; subdigital lamellae transversely expanded proximal to joint inflections, all bearing slightly curved claws; basal subdigital lamellae nearly as broad as digits; subdigital lamellae on manus I(13) II(14) III(16) IV(17) V(15), not including ventral claw sheath; count of subdigital lamellae on pes I(16) II(15) III(19) IV(20) V(18), not including ventral claw sheath; relative length of fingers IV>III>V>II>I and toes IV>V> III> II> I, the first toe is very short. Tail cylindrical but broken at the tip; dorsally tubercles keeled from the base of tail to approximately 1 / 3 tail length. The tubercles are arranged in 11 irregular rings with each ring consisting of four tubercles with each separated by seven to nine small transverse scale rows; ventrally transversely enlarged median subcaudal scales arranged in a single row, these scales are smooth and hexagonal in form (Fig. 6 A); three postcloacal tubercles on each side of tail base. Coloration in Life. A strikingly marked Cyrtodactylus. Ground color of dorsum uniformly velvety brown, tubercles the same color as background. Four pairs of overlapping “ ><” shaped dorsal pattern (as opposed to “V” shaped pattern). Finally it is distinguished from C. wallacei in having smaller maximum SVL (79 mm versus 113.6 mm), fewer lamellae under fourth toes (18–21 versus 24–25) and transversely enlarged median subcaudal scales with arrangement in a single row (as opposed to smaller, variable size scales, see Fig. 6 A,C). Cyrtodactylus hitchi sp. nov. lacks a precloacal groove which separates it from several species including: C. aurensis Grismer, C. astrum Grismer Wood, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Sumontha, Ahmad, Bauer, Wangkulangkul, Grismer & Pauwels, C. autralotitiwangsaensis Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Sumontha, Ahmad, Bauer, Wangkulangkul, Grismer & Pauwels, C. bintangtinggi Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Sumontha, Ahmad, Bauer, Wangkulangkul, Grismer & Pauwels, C. bintangrendah Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Sumontha, Ahmad, Bauer, Wangkulangkul, Grismer & Pauwels, C. cavernicolus Inger & King, C. durio Grismer, Anuar, Quah, Muin, Onn, Grismer & Ahmad, C. fumosus, C. halmahericus (Mertens), C. hikidai Riyanto, C. klakahensis Hartmann, Mecke, Kieckbusch & Kaiser, C. langkawiensis Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Sumontha, Ahmad, Bauer, Wangkulangkul, Grismer & Pauwels, C. lekaguli Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Sumontha, Ahmad, Bauer, Wangkulangkul, Grismer & Pauwels, C. macrotuberculatus Grismer & Ahmad, C. marmoratus (Gray), C. metropolis Grismer, Wood, Onn, Anuar & Muin, C. nuaulu Oliver, Edgar, Mumpuni, Iskandar & Lilley, C. papuaensis (Brongersma), C. payacola Johson, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Wood, Grismer, Greer, Onn, Ahmad, Bauer & Grismer, C. pubisulcus Inger, C. pulchellus Gray, C. semenanjungensis Grismer & Leong, C. spinosus Linkem, McGuire, Hayden, Setiadi, Bickford & Brown, C. stresemanni Rӧsler & Glaw and C. trilatofasciatus Grismer, Wood, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Sumontha, Ahmad, Bauer, Wangkulangkul, Grismer & Pauwels. Cyrtodactylus hitchi sp. nov. lacks precloacal pores which separates it from: C. aurensis, C. baluensis, C. batucolus Grismer, Onn, Grismer, Wood & Belabut, C. boreoclivus Oliver, Krey, Mumpuni & Richards, C. brevipalmatus (Smith), C. cavernicolus, C. consobrinus (Peters), C. deveti (Brongersma), C. durio, C. elok Dring, C. fumosus, C. halmahericus, C. hikidai, C. ingeri Hikida, C. irianjayaensis Rösler, C. lateralis (Werner), C. klakahensis, C. leegrismeri Chan & Norhayati, C. loriae (Boulenger), C. majulah Grismer, Wood & Lim, C. malayanus (de Rooij), C. marmoratus, C. novaguineae (Schlegel), C. seribuatensis Youmans & Grismer, C. matsuii Hikida, C. nuaulu, C. papuensis (Brongersma), C. pantiensis Grismer, Onn, Grismer, Wood & Belabut, C. peguensis Boulenger, C. petani Riyanto, Grismer & Wood, C. pubisulcus Inger, C. pulchellus, C. psarops Harvey, O’connell, Barraza, Riyanto, Kurniawan & Smith, C. quadrivirgatus Taylor, C. semicinctus Harvey, Barraza, Riyanto, Kurniawan & Smith, C. seribuatensis, C. stresemanni, C. wetariensis (Dunn) and C. yoshii Hikida. Cyrtodactylus hitchi sp. nov. lacks femoral pores in both sexes which differs from the condition seen in C. astrum, C. australotitiwangsaensis, C. baluensis (Mocquard), C. batucolus, C. bintangtinggi, C. bintangrendah, C. brevipalmatus, C. consobrinus, C. deveti, C. fumosus, C. halmahericus, C. irianjayaensis, C. klakahensis, C. lekaguli, C. loriae, C. macrotuberculatus, C. marmoratus, C. novaguineae, C. petani, C. pullchelus, C. seribuatensis, C. trilatofasciatus, C. wetariensis and C. zugi Oliver, Tjaturadi, Mumpuni, Krey & Richards, Cyrtodactylus hitchi sp. nov. possesses enlarged median subcaudal scales unlike C. batucolus, C. brevipalmatus, C. cavernicolus. C. durio, C. elok, C. fumosus, C. gunungsenyumensis Grismer, Wood, Anuar, Davis, Cobos & Murdoch, C. jarakensis, C. jellesmae, C. klakahensis, C. laevigatus, C. lateralis, C. loriae, C. majulah, C. marmoratus, C. matsuii, C. metropolis, C. naulu, C. novaguineae, C. pantiensis, C. papuaensis, C. payacola, C. petani, C. psarops, C. pubisulcus, C. quadrivirgatus, C. rosichonariefi Riyanto, Grismer & Wood, C. semenanjungensis, C. semiadii Riyanto, Bauer & Yudha, C. semicintus, C, seribuatensis, C. sermowaensis, C. stresemanni, C. wetariensis and C. yoshii. Cyrtodactylus hitchi sp. nov. lacks an abrupt transition between rows of large and small postfemoral and ventral femoral scales thus differing from C. astrum, C. australotitiwangsaensis, C. aurensis, C. baluensis, C. batucolus, C. bintangtinggi, C. bintangrendah, C. brevipalmatus, C. fumosus, C. gunungsenyumensis, C. klakahensis. C. leegrismeri, C. lekaguli, C. langkawiensis, C. macrotuberculatus, C. marmoratus, C. metropolis, C. seribuatensis, C. matsuii, C. pantiensis, C. payacola, C. petani, C. psarops, C. pulchellus, C. semicinctus, C. stresemanni, C. tebuensis, C. trilatofasciatus, C. wetariensis and C. zugi. Catalοg number MΖB MWFBPublished as part of Riyanto, Awal, Kurniati, Hellen & Engilis, Andrew, 2016, A new Bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mekongga Mountains, South East Sulawesi, Indonesia, pp. 59-72 in Zootaxa 4109 (1) on pages 61-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/26361
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Oreophryne riyantoi Putri, Trilaksono, Kurniati, Engilis & Hamidy 2023, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Oreophryne riyantoi</i> Putri, Trilaksono, Kurniati, Engilis & Hamidy, sp. nov. <p>(Figs. 3 A−D, 4A−D)</p> <p> <i>Oreophryne</i> sp1.: Kurniati & Laksono 2021, pp. 30–31</p> <p> <b>Holotype</b>: MZB Amph. 17494 (field number ATH 2794: Fig. 3 A−B, 4A−D), adult male. <b>Paratype</b>: An adult male and a juvenile, MZB Amph. 17493 (field number ATH 2792: Fig. 3 C−D) and MZB Amph. 17495 (field number ATH 2797), respectively. All specimens were collected by Wahyu Trilaksono on 20 November 2011, on Mount Mekongga, Mekongga Mountains, Wawo District, Kolaka Regency, Southeast Sulawesi (3.66267º S, 121.22067º E, 2528 m asl: Fig. 1).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The new species is assigned to the genus <i>Oreophryne</i> based on phylogenetic analysis. It can be distinguished from all congeners by the following combination of characters: snout rounded in dorsal and lateral view, tympanum indistinct, interorbital distance narrow (IOD/SVL 0.106–0.107), hands small (HAL/SVL 0.221–0.222), fingers and toes unwebbed, terminal discs on fingers and toes small (F3D/SVL 0.032–0.033, T4 D/SVL 0.031–0.032), legs very short (TL/SVL 0.318–0.322) and in life, dorsal surfaces of head, body and limbs irregularly tuberculated.</p> <p> <b>Description of the holotype</b>. Measurements are given in Table 3.Adult male 20.7 mm SVL (Fig. 4). Head slightly wider than long (HL/HW 0.852, HL/SVL 0.320, HW/SVL 0.375); snout short (SL/SVL 0.094) rounded in dorsal and lateral view; canthus rostralis rounded; loreal region vertical, nearly flat; tympanum indistinct; nostrils directed laterally, closer to tip of snout than eye (SNL/SL 0.305, EN/SL 0.593); internarial distance more than half of interorbital distance (IND/IOD = 0.776, IND/SVL 0.083); interorbital distance much broadder than upper eyelid (UEW/IOD = 0.731, UEW/SVL 0.078, IOD/SVL 0.107); eye of moderate size (ED/SVL 0.091), pupil ovoid, oriented horizontally.</p> <p>Fingers unwebbed, relative lengths III> IV> II> I; tips of fingers small, rounded, with faint terminal grooves; disc of first finger not expanded (F1D/SVL 0.019); discs on second and fourth fingers approximately as broad as of third finger (F3D/SVL 0.032), the third finger disc slightly wider than penultimate phalanges (phalanges 0.561, F3D/ phalanges 1.176). Toes unwebbed, relative lengths IV> III> V> II> I; tips of toes poorly developed, round discs with faint terminal grooves, slightly wider than penultimate phalanges (phalanges 0.594, T4D/phalanges 1.111); diameter of disc of first toe smaller than that of fourth (T1D/SVL 0.026, T4D/SVL 0.032); no subarticular tubercle; no metatarsal tubercle; hind limbs short (TL/SVL 0.318). Fingers and toes with lateral fringes extending to discs.</p> <p>Dorsal surfaces of head, body and limbs irregularly tuberculated, (Fig 3A–D); supratympanic fold distinct; belly and gular region coarsely granulated, slightly wrinkled. Color in life dark grey, slightly lighter anteriorly; upper arms, dorsal surfaces of fingers and toes orange; indistinct W-shaped mark in scapular region; and mid-dorsal line from snout to vent continuous to the lateral posterior of femur, tibia, to fifth toes (Figs. 3B–D). In preservative, dorsally reddish brown; ventrally pale brown, gular region dusted with brown (Fig. 4A–B).</p> <p> <b>Variation</b>. The adult holotype is morphometrically similar to the adult male paratype (morphometric measurements are given in Table 3). In preservative, dorsal skin of body in adult paratype and juvenile with prominent tubercles, less on limbs. Juvenile specimens with dark brown in dorsal, indistinct W-shaped in the scapular region, and a large white indistinct lumbar ocellus. Color in life of dorsal body in male paratype light yellow to brown; loreal region and beneath eye grey; mouth region with irregular light patches or mottling; tympanic regions beneath the tympanic fold bright yellow; a slightly curved dark bar between upper eyelids; upper surface of snout pale grey to yellowish; a large white defined ocellus in lumbar region (Fig. 3C–D).</p> <p> <b>Comparisons</b>. In the following comparisons, we compared the new species only to male specimens of congeners. <i>Oreophryne riyantoi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> is a morphologically distinct species that can be distinguished from all congeners in Sulawesi (morphometric measurements are given in Table 4) as follows: it is distinguished from <i>O. variabilis</i> in smaller body size, SVL 20.19–20.70 mm (vs. 23.14–26.85 mm); interorbital distance narrower, IOD/SVL 0.106 –0.107 (vs. 0.118 –0.141); snout rounded in dorsal view (vs. truncate with an obtusely angled tip); tympanum indistinct (vs. distinct); smaller hands, HAL/SVL 0.221 –0.222 (vs. 0.261 –0.292); smaller digital discs, F3D/SVL 0.032 –0.033, T4D/SVL 0.031 –0.032 (vs. 0.049 –0.057 and 0.041 –0.047); shorter hind limbs, TL/SVL 0.318 –0.322 (vs. 0.375 –0.443); in preservative, lower surfaces pale brown, gular region dusted with brown or less dense mottling (vs. uniform whitish, or greyish with yellow spots, or dark brown with yellow spots).</p> <p> <i>Oreophryne riyantoi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> differs from <i>O. celebensis</i> in having its head relatively shorter, HL/SVL 0.320– 3.222 (vs. 0.350–0.356); interorbital distance narrower, IOD/SVL 0.106–0.107 (vs. 0.131–0.165); eyes smaller, ED/ SVL 0.091–0.103 (vs 0.116–0.123); snout rounded in dorsal and lateral view (vs. truncate with an obtusely angled tip in dorsal, and protruding slightly in lateral view); snout shorter, SL/SVL 0.083–0.094 (vs. 0.110–0.127); tympanum indistinct (vs. distinct); shorter forearms, FAL/SVL 0.194–0.200 (vs. 0.256–0.262); much smaller hands, HAL/ SVL 0.221–0.222 (vs. 0.311–0.332); finger and toe discs small, F3D/SVL 0.032–0.033, T4 D/SVL 0.031–0.032 (vs. 0.056–0.076 and 0.052–0.058); foot shorter, FL/SVL 0.373– 0.381 (vs. 0.459–0.476); hind limbs shorter, TL/SVL 0.318–0.322 (vs. 0.476–0.513).</p> <p> <i>Oreophryne riyantoi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> differs from <i>O. zimmeri</i> in having interorbital distance narrower, IOD/SVL 0.106 – 0.107 (vs. 0.140); eyes smaller, ED/SVL 0.091 –0.103 (vs 0.132); snout rounded in dorsal and lateral view (vs. truncate with an obtusely angled tip in dorsal, and protruding slightly in lateral view); snout shorter, SL/SVL 0.083 –0.094 (vs. 0.119); shorter forearms, FAL/SVL 0.194 –0.200 (vs. 0.243); smaller hands, HAL/SVL 0.221 –0.222 (vs. 0.284); smaller finger discs, F3D/SVL 0.032 –0.033 (vs. 0.049); smaller foot, FL/SVL 0.373 – 0.381 (vs. 0.444); shorter hind limbs, TL/SVL 0.318 –0.322 (vs. 0.475); in life, dorsal surfaces of head, body and limbs irregularly tuberculated (vs. nearly smooth); absence of spots dorsally (vs. presence scattered black spots of irregular shape).</p> <p> Among the Lesser Sunda species, <i>Oreophryne riyantoi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> differs from <i>O. jeffersoniana</i> in having smaller toe discs, T4D/SVL 0.031 –0.032 (vs. 0.035 –0.040); smaller foot, FL/SVL 0.373 – 0.381 (vs 0.478 –0.512); shorter hind limbs, TL/SVL 0.318 –0.322 (vs. 0.486 –0.537); a dorsolateral line from eye to the groin absent (vs. only extending from the eye to more than half-way towards the groin). The new species differs from <i>O. rookmaakeri</i> Mertens 1927 by its indistinct tympanum (vs. distinct tympanum); smaller toe discs, T4D/SVL 0.031 –0.032 (vs. 0.040 – 0.047); smaller foot, FL/SVL 0.373 –0.381 (vs 0.404 –0.430); and shorter hind limbs, TL/SVL 0.318 –0.322 (vs. 0.412 –0.435). Also it differs from <i>O. monticola</i> (Boulenger 1897) by its indistinct tympanum (vs. distinct); smaller toe discs, T4D/SVL 0.031 –0.032 (vs. 0.044 –0.046); and shorter hind limbs TL/SVL 0.32 (vs. 0.425 –0.448).</p> <p> The unwebbed fingers and toes, together with very short hind limbs and poorly developed digital discs, clearly distinguish <i>Oreophryne riyantoi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> from all Moluccan and Papuan <i>Oreophryne</i> except <i>O. minuta</i> Richards & Iskandar 2000, <i>O. alticola</i> Zweifel, Cogger & Richards, 2005, <i>O. brevirostris</i> Zweifel, Cogger & Richards, 2005, <i>O. geminus</i> Zweifel, Cogger & Richards, 2005, <i>O. habbemensis</i> Zweifel, Cogger & Richards, 2005, and <i>O. terrestris</i> Zweifel, Cogger & Richards, 2005. <i>Oreophryne riyantoi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> differs from <i>O. minuta</i> by its body size (SVL 20.19– 20.70 vs. 9.2–11.5) and by dorsolateral stripes (absent vs. present) (Richards & Iskandar 2000); from <i>O. alticola</i> by its ventral colour pattern (belly pale brown vs. dark with large irregular white blotches centrally); from <i>O. brevirostris</i> by its dorsolateral pattern (stripes absent vs. two brown stripes beginning on the nape and becoming indistinct in the lumbar region); from <i>O. geminus</i> by its skin texture (body and limbs irregularly tuberculated vs. body with low longitudinal ridges, most prominent laterally, slightly tuberculate on limbs); from <i>O. habbemensis</i> by its lateral color pattern (without spot vs. with darker spot) and its lumbar ocelli (present vs. absent); and from O. <i>terrestris</i> by its ventral colour pattern (belly pale brown and gular region dusted with brown vs. moderately large, irregular, well separated dark spots) (Zweifel <i>et al.</i> 2005).</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>. The new species is dedicated to Mr. Awal Riyanto, a senior researcher at Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense (MZB), in recognition of his remarkable contributions on taxonomic work and conservation of herpetofauna in Sulawesi.</p> <p> <b>Distribution and natural history</b>. The new species is only known from the type locality, Mekongga Mountains, Southeast Sulawesi in primary montane forest at an elevation of 2528 m. Specimens were found among leaf litter on extremely wet-forest floor, where the trees were mossy with relatively closed-canopies.According to W.T.L., <i>Oreophryne riyantoi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> calls only between 2 and 5 am. The call, which was not recorded, was described as a series of 3–5 loud “peeping” notes, in which the last note is distinctly softer than those preceding it. We found no other amphibians in sympatry with the new species.</p>Published as part of <i>Putri, Auni Ade, Trilaksono, Wahyu, Kurniati, Hellen, Hitch, Alan Thomas, Jr, Andrew Engilis, Widayati, Kanthi Arum, Farajallah, Achmad & Hamidy, Amir, 2023, A new high elevation species of Oreophryne Boettger (Anura: Microhylidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia, pp. 455-467 in Zootaxa 5353 (5)</i> on pages 459-464, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.5.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10010360">http://zenodo.org/record/10010360</a>
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The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
Get PDFIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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