Archives for September 2002

Deal News A Newsweek writer turns a cover story into a book, a “mistake” that made a winery famous, a biography of Bennett Cerf and much more-about 60 deals in all since the last Deal Lunch with, as usual, more deals reported live during the day. But there’s lots more-two books from a pair of NYTimes fashion writers, a doctor’s survival guide for an era of potential biological, atomic or chemical attacks, Lincoln’s spirituality, and big fiction, with, as usual, more deals reported live during the day. Catch up on them all now by joining at PublishersMarketplace. And our searchable […]

New House for Nannies, and More Nanny Diaries authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus’s next two novels, the first about a young woman in the work place, bedeviled by bosses of various stripes, who gets a job at a company with a strong feminist mandate only to find out that she’s a purveyor of anything but information, with the working title of CITIZEN GIRL, and the second a sequel to the Nanny Diaries, to Lee Boudreaux at Random House, for a reported $3 million (based on an 18-page sample), by Suzanne Gluck at William Morris (NA). But there’s lots more-two […]

The Latest Deals Particularly pre-Frankfurt, almost every day is like a little Deal Lunch for PublishersMarketplace.com members who choose to get our daily nighttime deal mailing, with 19 new ones going out last night — including Plum Sykes’s Bergdorf Blondes, literary fiction, the dish on Calvin Klein, Hemingway and Dos Passos in the Spanish Crucible, a French novel sold in 22 languages now comes to America, notable women speak on the role of faith in their lives and an Indigo girl and her father talk about music as a practice of faith, staying fit after 40, and more with, as […]

The Latest Deals Over a dozen new reports so far, including a book about the secret financing of international terror networks including al Qaeda, lots of new fiction, a magazine editor’s memoir about horses, his father, and more, and foreign sales for a physicist’s book that now reach close to $500,000, with as usual, more reported live during the day. Catch up on them all now by joining at PublishersMarketplace. And our searchable archive has well over 3,000 deals, great for researching agents, editors, houses, seasons, topics, and more. Join Marketplace here and enjoy full benefits Go directly to the […]

The Latest Deals Lots of big things new since last night’s Deal Lunch, including a former Houghton employee’s quick sale for a biography of honey, a trilogy from Carl Sagan’s son Nick and mysteries from James Lee Burke’s daughter, Lynne Cheney’s latest, why boys have trouble reading, a big new business book, the full story of band Wilco, a bid deal for a Gen Y astrology book, and truly much more, with more reported live during the day. Catch up on them all now by joining at PublishersMarketplace. And our searchable archive has well over 3,000 deals, great for researching […]

The Latest Deals Thanks to a scout a novel sells quickly in Germany for six figures before its US submission, an insider’s look at the first black football coach at Notre Dame (and a biography of NFL founder George Halas), and those are just some of the latest among the almost 70 new deals from this week, available now in advance of Deal Lunch and always reported live during the day. Catch up on them all now by joining at PublishersMarketplace. And our searchable archive has well over 3,000 deals, great for researching agents, editors, houses, seasons, topics, and more. […]