Archives for February 2003

Deals and More An architecture and design critic is first to the gate with a look at the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, a one-time nanny profiles a variety of peers and looks at the unusual nanny-mother relationship, first fiction, and as usual plenty more. Make PublishersMarketplace.com your home page (as many of your colleagues have) and get the Deal of the Day, the top story from Lunch, breaking news as warrants, the latest book reviews from major newspapers, the most recent rights and proposal postings, charts of our most visited links, handy quick-search boxes (for features like […]

Make Marketplace Your Home Page? Lots of your colleagues have, as our PublishersMarketplace home page serves up the Deal of the Day, the top story from Lunch, breaking news as warrants, the latest book reviews from major newspapers, the most recent rights and proposal postings, charts of our most visited links, handy quick-search boxes (for features like our Contact Database, also updated daily), quick links to our other features, and still more. It’s like having Lunch all day long, with the most information and feature-packed web page devoted to the book publishing industry you’ll find anywhere. Join us as a […]

Editor’s Novel, Celebrity Books, Walker’s Next, Acne Secrets and More Even when the headlines are sparse the deal news is robust including: a major UK deal for former publishing director of Penguin Press Andrew Rosenheim’s first novel, J. Randy Taraborrelli does Michael Jackson, the second part of Boy George’s memoirs, leading economist Jagdish Bhagwati defending globalization, the dermatologist creators of a popular informercial-driven acne solution present their methods, Alice Walker’s next two books, a big Spanish-language deal for António Lobo Antunes, plus lots more (over 20 new deals since yesterday morning). As usual, PublisherMarketplace.com members can see them all, view […]

Ever More Deals Almost 10 fascinating new ones just since last night’s Lunch Weekly preview, and almost 20 since yesterday morning: highlights include multiple promising first fiction sales (one a big UK deal; one a fashion world novel from a women’s magazine writer now living in Australia), a major film buy for a forthcoming thriller, a prominent female executive on Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men — And What to Do So We Will, a big sale for an educator’s take on improving children’s essential social skills, and still plenty more. As usual, PublisherMarketplace.com members can see them all, […]

The Latest Deals As usual, we’ve got lots of news from Friday and over the weekend, including a big film producer telling how to produce, an expose of “tough love” programs for juvenile offenders, charting your stars based on pop culture hits the day you were born, a benefit book from Larry King, Earl Spencer’s big book about the Duke of Marlborough’s famous victory, deflation as the new economic disease, a well-known book publicist’s guide for authors, and plenty more. With all the activity in advance of London, now’s a great time to get all our deal news live and […]

Goldie, Pythons, and More Goldie Hawn’s big deal for her memoirs, the Monty Pythons tell their own stories in a lavish book, a Spanish-language bestseller, the story behind the creators of Nancy Drew, an historian presents an interactive illustrated book/CD package capturing the recollections of WWII veterans, more big history sales in the UK, Friday tends to be a busy day for new reports which, as usual, we’ll post live during the day, along with our optional daily deal e-mail, a database of over 4,000 deals, and lots of other great features your competitors and colleagues are enjoying every day-all […]