Autumn Deer Publishing

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**Autumn Deer Publishing** is the book publishing division of Springbok Productions, known for publishing nonfiction and fiction book titles of various genres, magazines and comics. Its first book was the memoir of actress Anne Heche in 2001. From 2001 to 2019, it was fully owned by Springbok, and was admittedly the slowest-growing division of the company. In 2019, Springbok announced that it would sell off half of its stake in the company to HarperCollins, reestablishing Autumn Deer Publishing as a joint venture.

## History

Autumn Deer Press was announced as being formed in the summer of 2001, with an intent to focus on publishing nonfiction and fiction titles. To score a coup and hit the ground running, they announced their first title was *End of My Rope: Stories of a Hollywood Life*, the memoir of actress Anne Heche, in order to help explain herself after an infamous mental episode as well as the fallout of the end of her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. The book was published on September 4, and attracted brisk sales, mainly for Heche's allegations of sexual abuse by her father, and leading to the end of relations with her mother Nancy.

Autumn Deer spread into magazine publication in 2010 with purchasing and reviving the investigative magazine *New West* and the political/celebrity magazine *George*, buying the UK music magazine *Vive Le Rock*, and starting its own in-house animation magazine, *Animation Domination.*

Since 2014, Autumn Deer Publishing has included Dark Horse Comics as an imprint, after Springbok purchased the company. Its comic and manga titles added considerable clout to the division as well as moving Dark Horse Entertainment to be a division among Springbok itself to build a cinematic universe out of the IPs.

Autumn Deer Publishing attracted billions of dollars in profits, but never got beyond the single billions-range, as it became the slowest growing division of Springbok, compared to the film, television, animation, music, record label and video game divisions.

In 2019, to help shore up the division and bring it further along, Springbok announced that it would sell half of Autumn Deer to book publisher HarperCollins, a division of News Corporation, and refashion the imprint as a joint venture between the two companies.

## Notable books

### Nonfiction

* *End of My Rope: Stories of a Hollywood Life* by Anne Heche
* *Calamities* by Margot Kidder
* *Slash* by Slash and Anthony Bozza
* *Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd* by Nick Mason
* *Face the Music: A Life Exposed* by Paul Stanley
* *Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?* by Steven Tyler and David Dalton
* *Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith* by Joe Perry and David Ritz
* *Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James* by Rick James and David Ritz
* *The Masked Rider: Cycling In West Africa* by Neil Peart (reprint edition, originally printed by Pottersfield Press in 1996)
* *Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road* by Neil Peart
* *Traveling Music: Playing Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times* by Neil Peart
* *Roadshow-Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour By Motorcycle* by Neil Peart
* *Far and Away: A Prize Every Time* by Neil Peart
* *Far and Near: On Days Like These* by Neil Peart
* *Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon To Me!* by Neil Peart
* *Out of the Cradle: Our Story* by Neil Peart
* *Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass* by Geddy Lee
* *My Effin' Life* by Geddy Lee
* *Not Dead and Not For Sale* by Scott Weiland and David Ritz
* *Queen In 3D* by Brian May
* *Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury* by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne
* *The Doors by The Doors* by The Doors and Ben Fong-Torres
* *Hanoi Rocks: All Those Wasted Years* by Ari Vantanen, Michael Monroe and Andy McCoy
* *Sheriff McCoy* by Andy McCoy and Ike Vil
* *Me* by Elton John
* *Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin* by David Ritz
* *Jimmy Page: The Anthology* by Jimmy Page
* *My Love Story* by Tina Turner
* *The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside "The Room", The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made* by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
* *If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor* by Bruce Campbell
* *Hail To the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor* by Bruce Campbell
* *Billy Joel: The Biography* by Fred Schruers
* *To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette* by Carolly Erickson
* *The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes* by Dawn Schiller
* *Reclaiming History* by Vincent Bugliosi
* *Dot Con: The Real Story of Why the Internet Bubble Burst* by John Cassidy
* *The Numbers Game: Accounting Frauds, Bad Companies and Fake Profits* by James B. Stewart
* *The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron* by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
* *Conspiracy of Fools* by Kurt Eichenwald
* *Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend* by Mitchell Zuckoff
* *The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance* by Michael Perino
* *The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich* by Daniel Amman
* *All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis* by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
* *A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, The Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age* by Geoffrey C. Ward
* *Walt Disney and the Triumph of the American Imagination* by Neal Gabler
* *Disney After Walt: 55 Years Of Heartbreak, Struggle And Reinvention* by Neil Gabler
* *Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower* by Cynthia Cooper
* *The Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret World of Bernie and Ruth* by Brian Ross (co-published by Kingswell Books/Hyperion Books; Disney Book Group)
* *No One Would Listen* by Harry Markopolos
* *Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History* by Jim Campbell
* *Devil's Bargain: Commerce and Business in Charles Taylor's Liberia* by Peter Elkind
* *He Said, She Said: Tinseltown's History of Sexual Crimes* by Peter Elkind
* *The Operator: How David Geffen Built His Fiefdom by Lies, Innuendo, Proxies and Aiding and Abetting Sexual Assault* by Tom King, 10th anniversary reprint with new information, originally printed in 2000 by HarperCollins as *The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood*
* *Hamilton: The Revolution* by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

### Fiction

* *Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way* by Bruce Campbell
* *Holy Wood* by Marilyn Manson
* *My French Whore* by Gene Wilder
* *Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey* by Bill Watterson
* *Becoming Marie Antoinette* by Juliet Grey
* *Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow: A Novel of Marie Antoinette* by Juliet Grey
* *Confessions of Marie Antoinette: A Novel* by Juliet Grey
* *Rival to the Queen* by Carolly Erickson
* *The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette* by Carolly Erickson
* *The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise* by Carolly Erickson
* *The Hamilton Affair: A Novel* by Elizabeth Cobbs
* *My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton* by Stephanie Dray
* *Clockwork Angels: The Novel* by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart
* *Master Your Finances And $hake It Up!* by Matt Maillero and Dave Willis
* *Skiwsgaar Is Ams Dick: The Life of Toki, An Abused Guitarist* by Brendon Small and David Ritz
* *Let Me Off At The Top! My Classy Life and Other Musings* by Ron Burgundy
* *The Doozles Are Dozing* by Brad Bird
* *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* (film novelization) by Quentin Tarantino

## See also

* Springbok Productions
* HarperCollins

## External links

* Official website

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