Archives for April 2003

Another Trilogy, Another Marine As usual lots of new deals, including yet another big trilogy sale for a young UK author, a Marine reservist from Gulf War I combines a Jarhead-esque memoir with an insider’s look at the experiences of the huge numbers of reservists who drive much of today’s US armed forces, a first fiction pre-empt, a good deal for a French bestseller, and plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) is one of the big draws for lots of members of PublishersMarketplace, but the site is packed with so many […]

Inside the Al Qaeda Interrogations and More Countless brand-new deals, including an anonymous interrogator at a U.S. detention center in Afghanistan providing an insider’s account of the interrogation of suspected Al Qaeda prisoners in a major deal while a Mafia insider shares life lessons learned from the Mob, plus new fiction from Graham Parker, a look at the ill-fated relationship between the great Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner, a highly praised novel, an NPR reporter’s war account from Baghdad (including the Iraqi viewpoint by way or her driver), a book by publisher John Donatich, and lots more. Constant access to […]

First SARS Books and Much More By the time I finish loading them in we’ll have 20 new deals since Friday, including the first SARS books, a memoir about father, golf, and Scotland, a good deal for new historical fiction, and a number of new deals from one those houses a trade magazine thinks isn’t acquiring including new books from John Feinstein and Herman Wouk, and lots more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) is one of the big draws for lots of members of PublishersMarketplace, but the site is packed with so […]

Following Blair, New Historical Theories, and More Another 15 new reports from yesterday (and 60 so far this week), including British journalist Peter Stothard’s remarkable up-close look at Tony Blair during the Iraq conflict, the first biography of Mary Todd Lincoln’s family (which fought on both sides of the Civil War), a revisionist history of the World War era as an American campaign to destroy the British Empire and replace it with an American Empire, another fresh historical perspective on the Revolutionary War through the perspective of Native American woman Molly Brant, more movies deal, a six-figure fiction sale, a […]

The Latest Deals Another 14 new ones, including an NPR contributor’s comic novel, the UK auction for a real-life (if slightly goofy) quest for the Holy Grail, two big WWII books (including one that tells the story of the single most decorated American unit in the war and their miraculous stand during the Battle of the Bulge), lessons from maverick advertising titan Donny Deutsch, a new look at the life and letters of St. Patrick, a journalist turns a magazine article into book about how he accidentally shot his best friend, and plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and […]

Williams, Dreyfuss, Hegi and More in Big Deal Day We mailed out over 20 new deals last night to PublishersMarketplace members who get our daily deal e-mail: highlights include seven figures for Tad Williams’ new trilogy, another big auction purchase for Warner to defy a certain speculative story yet again, a novel from Richard Dreyfuss, Ursula Hegi’s next, an unusual deal for a radio host, a new PBS tie-in, and still plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) is one of the big draws for lots of members of PublishersMarketplace, but the […]