Glenn Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts Extends Book Publishing Deal With Simon & Schuster

by Alex Alvarez | 9:51 am, June 1st, 2011

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Glenn Beck‘s Mercury Radio Arts production company is extending its publishing partnership with Simon & Schuster. The companies, which have worked together since the 2003 publication of Beck’s The Real America, will also launch “Mercury Link,” a division that will “discover, publish and promote books and authors that Glenn is passionate about across a variety of genres.”

What this means: Mercury is publishing books written by authors other than Beck, thus expanding the conservative pundit’s media empire, which currently also includes TheBlaze.com and, most recently, group savings site Markdown.com.

In August, for example, Mercury Link will present Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25, a YA novel (yes!) by author Richard Paul Evans.

The first book to be released under the companies’ renewed agreement will be Beck’s The Original Argument: The Federalists’ Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century, a paperback nonfiction due out this June 14th. Additionally, Beck’s new novel, The Snow Angel, will be published this coming October.

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tgk

Hey Mediaite, this might have been an even better Beck article to put out today:

http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/05/31/owned-socialists-confirm-glenns-craaaaazy-conspiracy-theory/
lane

He’s a conservative Oprah, don’t just work for others, run it yourself. This one’s a no-brainer. Every book he showcased was a blockbuster, his own books blockbusters. Will be interesting to see if he’s able to run such a diverse new media company.

I guess his haters are starting to realize that he wasn’t joking about his big plans post-Fox News. Pretty obvious, though.
Davo

Dims are publicly silent just now. They’re frantically working to figure out how to present this news as another Beck “failure.”
justanotherconservative

Glenn Beck will survive. He’s clever and he does his homework. The dems/liberals/lunaticleft/scaredycats can demonize him all they want. He is not going away.
Pablo

What??? Simon and Schuster fired Beck?

Hey everybody: SIMON AND SCHUSTER FIRED GLENN BECK!!!

/projecting Ed Schultz to be the first to run with this take.

/On second thought...
http://none pyrope

Is it just me or does it seem as though there are fewer people these days claiming that Glenn Beck is no more than a conspiracy theorist?
cyberk9sheriff

LOl…something wrote about Brother Beck and not the first lefty on here to bash him. They must eb asleep tuned in to media matters….lol…it’s alright little lefties….sleep….sleep…