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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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, […]