Archives for January 2003

A Busy Week Among the latest deals, two interesting books about words, first fiction from a young Iowa grad, a strong sale for a diary called “part instruction book, part therapy, part religious cult, part sheer anarchy,” the latest from David Niven, and more-about 50 new deals so far this week, and Friday’s tend to […]

Hollywood Novel, Fantasy Trilogy, New Peck, Moose’s Publisher Truly deal news (with 16 new reports) leads the headlines today: the auction has indeed closed for that talked-about Hollywood assistant’s novel, as Chief Charles Moose’s publisher emerges, M. Scott Peck reveals the true story of an exorcism, praised crime Denise Mina moves publishers, Arthur Levine buys […]

Lots of New Deals Another very busy day has yielded lots of new deal reports, as former Dell/Delacorte editor-in-chief Leslie Schnur sells her first novel in a lengthy auction, and there’s more first fiction at auction, a new house for rising novelist Steven Sherrill, Deirdre Imus authoring a big benefit cookbook, advice from a man […]

Assistant Fiction, Biography, and More The end of the auction for Mimi Hare and Clare Naylor’s Hollywood roman-a-clef THE SECOND ASSISTANT (set in an agency) is said to be imminent according to the NY Daily News. As for deals already closed, there’s an unusually large stockpile of about 20 new ones, including a massive FDR […]

Sorry; complicated day, so Lunch is late, yet still hastily assembled Chief Moose Sells Story; Will County Approve It? It’s one of the more unusual deal news items we’ve come across; Maryland’s Montgomery County police chief Charles A. Moose, put in the news spotlight by last fall’s sniper case, has reached a deal for his […]

The Latest Reports A big paperback sales for Kate Moses’s forthcoming debut novel, a look at circus life during the heday of the Big Top, and more. Deals now generate literally thousands of page views a day a PublishersMarketplace; be one of those who knows by joining us now as member. You can still try […]