Deals and Refinements A new work from “brilliant young British historian and rising star” Lucy Moore and a self-published novel propelled into a big deal after being named a Book Sense 76 pick lead the latest deals at PublishersMarketplace. And our new home page puts a lot of useful features right up front — now you can see the deal of the day, member of the day, the latest job postings, and an ever-changing list of our 10 most popular member pages every time you hit the home page (which also tracks the number of new rights postings, deals, and […]
Archives for January 2002
Publishers Lunch for January 30, 2002
Big Deals Lots of news, including a genre-busting combination WWII heroes and survival-at-sea story, more from Noah Adams, high profile fiction series sales, and more. See all the latest deals And Related Proposals In an interesting bit of symmetry, one of the new proposals offered at PublishersMarketplace is a book “relating the harrowing escape by sea in an open rowboat of two Americans from a WWII German prisoner of war camp on the island of Jersey.” Anyone can check the new postings every day More people are giving risk-free membership a try every day, enjoying our growing roster of features […]
Publishers Lunch for January 29, 2002
Delivery Update It’s probably more frustrating to me than to you at this point, but we’ve been advised that our e-mail service may not have a suitable solution to the problem of slow delivery of Lunch until this weekend when they’re doing a big system overhaul. Once again thanks for your patience as we work this out. Groundhogs, Day 2 Here in New York the balmy weather we’re enjoying seems a perfect prelude to our annual Groundhog’s Day Subscription Drive. Rather than cajole you all year long to make a special point of recruiting friends and co-workers to join our […]
Publishers Lunch for January 28, 2002
It’s That Time of Year Again As longtime readers will remember, this is a very special time of year for us at Lunch because it marks the kickoff of our annual Groundhog’s Day Subscription Drive. Rather than cajole you all year long to make a special point of recruiting friends and co-workers to join our mailing list, we concentrate our efforts in building up to this very special (albeit underrated) holiday. For all the people who enjoy their Lunch every day, there are thousands more who have it forwarded to them and countless others who’ve yet to taste a Lunch […]
Publishers Lunch for January 25, 2002
New Deals The latest includes a book about the mysterious, as yet unsolved murder of freelance writer Christa Worthington on Cape Cod, an influential scholar’s look at 35 years of conflict between militant Islam and the West, and more. See new deals every day (and/or get a daily deal e-mail) Plus Why do we keep pushing our PublishersMarketplace.com site so much? It’s really two reasons. As the site grows, it’s our way of taking the power of Lunch in bringing together the attention so many people from the community and turning that attention back to all of you, so you […]
Publishers Lunch for January 24, 2002
Darn Somehow I managed to correctly reproduce Doris Kearns Goodwin’s name in certain but not all editions of Lunch yesterday. Sorry. New Deals The latest includes a new home for Susan Isaacs, a new book from David Halberstam post 9/11, reflections from Orrin Hatch, Clayton Christensen’s follow-up book, and more. See new deals every day (and/or get a daily deal e-mail) New Proposals Again, there are more great additions every day, now including an adventure chronicle of three climbers who fought for their lives on one of China’s highest peaks, rights to a one-time NY Time notable novel, and much […]