Archives for April 2003

More Big Deals As is the case on many days the real headlines are in the deal reports: One of the reporters jailed for over a week in Iraq recently signs for a harrowing account of his incarceration combined with the larger story of decades of oppression, a bestselling author jumps from a small house to mid-six figure deal, the rise and fall of the WWF, and contrary to PW’s ridiculous finding last night of “an unusually small number of sales to AOLTW over the last two months” Warner bags a big business book, along with many other new deals. […]

Lots of New Deals As you can imagine, we’ve got over 20 new reports since our last Lunch, including a young snowboarder’s novella for Knopf, a pre-empt for a new thriller author, Susan Orlean’s next book, new research on how enzymes help heal, a memoir from “the funny guy from The Bachelorette,” Bono’s benefit book, political activism for a new generation, former House majority leader Dick Armey’s axioms for success, a novel about the “dark heart of Hollywood” with lots of pre-pub praise, and still plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) […]

No lunch tomorrow.… Another Big Trilogy, Slate on Paper, a New Jarhead, and More Yes, it’s another big buy for a children’s trilogy (and another Australian import), this one about a time-travelling teenager; plus, another “Jarhead” recalls adventures (and misadventures) from Gulf War I, Slate starts a series of trade paperbacks on current events, a novel for teens finished by Stephen Ambrose shortly before he died, a prescient Canadian house already had a journalist following Masters winner Mike Weir around the tour this year, the secrets of JetBlue’s founder, a look at Harvard life and the odd way in which […]

The Book on Google, How Brains Get Better, More Big Sales A veteran net journalist aims for the definitive book on Google, another big book drawing on new research about the brain (this one focused on how the brain ages and which functions get better over time), we’re introduced to “a Christian Dave Eggers,” a big thriller deal, a big UK sale for a rock autobiography, Karenna Gore Schiff’s unsuing heroines of the last century, lots of new fiction sales (including a first novel from director Ron Howard’s wife), a book for Martin Scorsese, and much more. As usual, PublisherMarketplace.com […]

Perle Writes, Carroll Travels, and More For a quiet day in the headlines, the real news is in the deals: recently resigned head of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle teams up with a fellow neoconservative for a timely book, a bestselling author turns her book into a whole series, Andrew Carroll travels the globe to compile more war letters, a “Nanny Diaries-esque novel” is set in a Brooklyn private school, a hot chef signs for his first cookbooks, and lots more, all new since last night’s Deal Lunch. As usual, PublisherMarketplace.com members can see them all, search our huge […]

Another Schedule Note The kindergarten is leaving early tomorrow to visit a real fire boat and it’s quite exciting; thus Lunch will probably not be served until well into the afternoon. Big Fiction and Memoir Deals, Evanovich Moves, and More Over 20 new deals since last Friday, including the story of a woman who rose from foster care and the gangs of LA to a job at one of the country’s top law firms, Janet Evanovich’s new publisher, Sherman Alexie’s first work of non-fiction, a fiction buy for Gary Fisketjon (a related screenplay starts filming for Miramax next month), Andrew […]