Archives for February 2003

Back on Schedule Aside from the snow things seem to have been pretty quiet since our last full dispatch. Having returned from honoring our presidents in style and then tunneling my way out to the curb and beyond, I should be back to the usual Lunch schedule. Patchett, Adventure, Big Fiction and More Over 15 new deals since Tuesday’s weekly wrap-up of course, including Bel Canto author Ann Patchett’s first book of nonfiction, the conquering of the “Everest of rivers,” another huge fiction deal in the UK, a memoir from colorful attorney Eddie Hayes, Arthur C. Clarke’s first stand-alone novel […]

Schedule Note Please note that I am traveling tonight through next Wednesday which means at the most, there will be only modest Lunching between now and then. There will be a Lunch Weekly round up, probably on Tuesday, so continued contributions are welcome. And all of our other running features, from the Job Board to daily deal reports and book review clips at PublishersMarketplace, will run as usual. 20 More Nearly 20 new deal reports include a Mob thriller based on the lives of Donnie Brasco and Bill Bonanno, a doctor’s look at how the differences between male and female […]

Big Buys Once again a number of headline-making new deals, including baseball manager Tony La Russa and bestselling journalist Buzz Bissinger’s high-profile collaboration, the memoir of a woman whose father was an FBI agent, fiction deals of note for Orange winner Helen Dunmore, Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian, and Kimberla Lawson Roby, and still more. Plus, as ever, live postings during the day, an 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. If you’ve been wondering about joining PublishersMarketplace.com, why not try it now […]

Big Buys Lots of headline-making new deals right on the heels of last night’s big fat Lunch Weekly, like the seven-figure UK purchase of a series for kids by a writer and her 10-year-old daughter, excitement over Frederick Forsyth’s first new thriller in six years, another big sale in the UK for a novel about Irish crime bosses, film deals for Book Sense favorite T’ongil, Jeffrey Frank, and a forthcoming Scribner novel, all about NASCAR rebel Curtis Turner, a new way to beat the biological clock, and more. If you’ve been wondering about joining PublishersMarketplace.com, why not try it now […]

Hodder’s Coming to America, With Help from S&S UK publisher Hodder Headline once tried to buy Simon & Schuster through their parent company WH Smith, and the company has long been thought to be looking to buy a US publisher. Now they’ve done the next best thing or — depending upon how you look at it an even smarter thing — in announcing the start-up of Hodder Headline USA and partnering with S&S to handle sales, warehousing, billing, fulfillment and customer service for the new unit. S&S will also provide office space and a variety of other support services, including […]

Finishing a Busy Week The latest installments in a very full week of deal reports: the auction for a young fiction writer’s Russian bestseller (and more big first fiction sales), big sales for a bestselling celebrity diet doctor’s Thin Commandments and a different doctor’s solution to hormone health, more on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and even a book by the fruit expert recently profiled in the New Yorker, a new house for Bobby Flay’s next tie-in cookbook, and still plenty more (plus, Friday’s usually bring lots of reports). Plus, as ever, live postings during the day, an optional daily […]