Alex Slater
@abuckslater.bsky.social
Former Literary Agent
Now: MediaScout, built by Ingram
www.themediascout.com
Now: MediaScout, built by Ingram
www.themediascout.com
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Alex Slater
@abuckslater.bsky.social
· Dec 2
NEWS! I am so thrilled to help authors in this new way.
What is MediaScout?
It's a new stop in the life of your book.
It's how filmmakers find you.
And since it's built by Ingram, your book is already here.
Ask your agent: are we in touch with MediaScout yet?
www.themediascout.com
What is MediaScout?
It's a new stop in the life of your book.
It's how filmmakers find you.
And since it's built by Ingram, your book is already here.
Ask your agent: are we in touch with MediaScout yet?
www.themediascout.com
"One agent told PW she was 'reeling' from the scope of the layoffs."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
More Job Cuts at S&S
After confirming on Monday that the publisher had made limited reductions to its staff, Simon & Schuster made another round of layoffs later in the week. More than a dozen jobs have been cut, mostly o...
www.publishersweekly.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:18 PM
"One agent told PW she was 'reeling' from the scope of the layoffs."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Standing with and sending extra love to our Minneapolis bookstore friends and their entire community today 💜
January 23, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Standing with and sending extra love to our Minneapolis bookstore friends and their entire community today 💜
“Hollywood has never stopped loving books…But it has rarely needed them this much.”
Thus: www.themediascout.com.
Thus: www.themediascout.com.
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 PM
“Hollywood has never stopped loving books…But it has rarely needed them this much.”
Thus: www.themediascout.com.
Thus: www.themediascout.com.
This is the third or fourth time I've seen this headline and I'm starting to get a good hold of the plot now.
Matt Damon says that Netflix wants its filmmakers to repeat the plot of the movie during its dialogue ‘three or four’ times because people are on their phones when watching movies at home.
Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the Plot
Matt Damon says that Netflix wants its filmmakers to repeat the plot of the movie during its dialogue ‘three or four’ times because people are on their phones when watching movies at home.
www.vulture.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:45 PM
This is the third or fourth time I've seen this headline and I'm starting to get a good hold of the plot now.
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There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
MediaScout: Book Adaptation Rights
Discover and acquire adaptation rights to turn books into screen masterpieces. Tailored for film and TV professionals.
www.themediascout.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:35 PM
There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
MediaScout: Book Adaptation Rights
Discover and acquire adaptation rights to turn books into screen masterpieces. Tailored for film and TV professionals.
www.themediascout.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:35 PM
There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: FREEMONTH26.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
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There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
There's a lot happening at MediaScout this month!
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
Take a look behind the paywall with the Promo Code: AS2026.
It's your window into the book world, from the leaders of the book world. Find the next hit adaptation. (Yes, there are MANY hockey stories in here.)
www.themediascout.com
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I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
I have many friends and former colleagues quoted in this article and I am very proud to know and support them all.
thehill.com/homenews/lgb...
thehill.com/homenews/lgb...
thehill.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I have many friends and former colleagues quoted in this article and I am very proud to know and support them all.
thehill.com/homenews/lgb...
thehill.com/homenews/lgb...
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If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
“Their sleep gets better, their stress level, their impulse control, their empathy...If you could take what reading does to you and put it in a pill, it would be the fastest-selling pill in the world.”
Thousands of books have since been donated to this school.
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
Thousands of books have since been donated to this school.
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
How one Kansas City teacher built a reading culture in a school with no library
“You can see the shift around the school,” said one teacher. “... It’s impressive and inspiring to see someone do something so big in an out-of-the box way.”
www.kansascity.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM
“Their sleep gets better, their stress level, their impulse control, their empathy...If you could take what reading does to you and put it in a pill, it would be the fastest-selling pill in the world.”
Thousands of books have since been donated to this school.
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
Thousands of books have since been donated to this school.
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
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Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject latest $108bn hostile Paramount bid
Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject latest $108bn hostile Paramount bid
Board unwilling to accept hostile takeover despite $40bn guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has again told its shareholders to reject an “inadequate” $108.4bn (£80bn) hostile takeover bid by Paramount Skydance amid an extraordinary corporate battle to control the media conglomerate.
Paramount, controlled by the billionaire Ellison family, had sought to combat WBD’s criticism of its offer and claims it had “consistently misled” investors by saying it had a “full backstop” – a safety net to ensure it has sufficient funds – from the Ellisons. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject latest $108bn hostile Paramount bid
Literary agents: start the year off right. (Editors are not emailing you back this week anyway.) Check out MediaScout and get in touch with me about how Ingram can better serve you and your clients: www.themediascout.com.
MediaScout: Book Adaptation Rights
Discover and acquire adaptation rights to turn books into screen masterpieces. Tailored for film and TV professionals.
www.themediascout.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Literary agents: start the year off right. (Editors are not emailing you back this week anyway.) Check out MediaScout and get in touch with me about how Ingram can better serve you and your clients: www.themediascout.com.
Oil is bad and we should be using less of it.
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Oil is bad and we should be using less of it.
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
“It’s pretty crazy that streaming services haven’t produced many new kids’ hits or animated hits when reruns of those genres dominate ever year.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“It’s pretty crazy that streaming services haven’t produced many new kids’ hits or animated hits when reruns of those genres dominate ever year.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Today's @publisherslunch.bsky.social reports that trade books sales skyrocketed this past season.
"That makes it the second-best October recorded by the AAP, next to the massive sales of $1.042 billion in 2021, which was the best year ever for trade book sales."
Go buy a book.
"That makes it the second-best October recorded by the AAP, next to the massive sales of $1.042 billion in 2021, which was the best year ever for trade book sales."
Go buy a book.
December 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Today's @publisherslunch.bsky.social reports that trade books sales skyrocketed this past season.
"That makes it the second-best October recorded by the AAP, next to the massive sales of $1.042 billion in 2021, which was the best year ever for trade book sales."
Go buy a book.
"That makes it the second-best October recorded by the AAP, next to the massive sales of $1.042 billion in 2021, which was the best year ever for trade book sales."
Go buy a book.
"What’s happening on our shelves isn’t a local quirk, it’s a national stress test of your rights...
If they can get away with it here, it’s coming to your libraries too."
time.com/7341120/book...
If they can get away with it here, it’s coming to your libraries too."
time.com/7341120/book...
The Supreme Court Just Opened the Door to a New Era of Book Bans
The Supreme Court’s inaction puts Americans’ First Amendment rights at risk.
time.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"What’s happening on our shelves isn’t a local quirk, it’s a national stress test of your rights...
If they can get away with it here, it’s coming to your libraries too."
time.com/7341120/book...
If they can get away with it here, it’s coming to your libraries too."
time.com/7341120/book...
"The Academy is an international organization, and this partnership will allow us to expand access to the work of the Academy to the largest worldwide audience possible."
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
The Oscars Moving to YouTube Beginning in 2029, Will Stream Free Worldwide
The Oscars will air on YouTube starting in 2029.
variety.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"The Academy is an international organization, and this partnership will allow us to expand access to the work of the Academy to the largest worldwide audience possible."
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Interesting: "Studios are still not fully realizing the potential of these booktok hits."
THE HOUSEMAID: Over 2M copies sold. A built-in audience. A 3-book series. Plus: No expensive dragons, locations, etc.
And there are SO many booktok books that readers would support, either for film or TV.
THE HOUSEMAID: Over 2M copies sold. A built-in audience. A 3-book series. Plus: No expensive dragons, locations, etc.
And there are SO many booktok books that readers would support, either for film or TV.
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Interesting: "Studios are still not fully realizing the potential of these booktok hits."
THE HOUSEMAID: Over 2M copies sold. A built-in audience. A 3-book series. Plus: No expensive dragons, locations, etc.
And there are SO many booktok books that readers would support, either for film or TV.
THE HOUSEMAID: Over 2M copies sold. A built-in audience. A 3-book series. Plus: No expensive dragons, locations, etc.
And there are SO many booktok books that readers would support, either for film or TV.
Tudum.
Breaking: Warner Bros. Discovery is officially rejecting Paramount’s buyout offer, calling it “illusory” and arguing that the existing plan to sell most of the media company to Netflix is a better deal for shareholders. Here's my full story: www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/m...
Warner Bros. Discovery advises shareholders to reject Paramount’s offer. But the battle isn’t over | CNN Business
Warner Bros. Discovery is officially rejecting Paramount’s buyout offer, calling it “illusory” and arguing that the existing plan to sell most of the media company to Netflix is a better deal for shar...
www.cnn.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Tudum.
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NEWS! I am so thrilled to help authors in this new way.
What is MediaScout?
It's a new stop in the life of your book.
It's how filmmakers find you.
And since it's built by Ingram, your book is already here.
Ask your agent: are we in touch with MediaScout yet?
www.themediascout.com
What is MediaScout?
It's a new stop in the life of your book.
It's how filmmakers find you.
And since it's built by Ingram, your book is already here.
Ask your agent: are we in touch with MediaScout yet?
www.themediascout.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
NEWS! I am so thrilled to help authors in this new way.
What is MediaScout?
It's a new stop in the life of your book.
It's how filmmakers find you.
And since it's built by Ingram, your book is already here.
Ask your agent: are we in touch with MediaScout yet?
www.themediascout.com
What is MediaScout?
It's a new stop in the life of your book.
It's how filmmakers find you.
And since it's built by Ingram, your book is already here.
Ask your agent: are we in touch with MediaScout yet?
www.themediascout.com
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This is very sad news. She was a lovely writer, and an absolute pro.
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is very sad news. She was a lovely writer, and an absolute pro.