Archives for May 2003

Please Note Yesterday’s edition had an incomplete hyperlink for Amistad Books, publisher of the forthcoming THE KNOWN WORLD. The correct link is: http://www.amistadbooks.com BEA Now, and Then Our cool new BEA Marketplace.com directory will remain live throughout the convention itself, and it will be easily accessible all over the convention center, so you can use it for one-the-spot reference. (Which means exhibitors and rights centers participants should keep adding as much information as possible, and even post news from the floor itself.) Look for banks of terminals in the lobbies of both main halls, which will be set up to […]

The Latest Deals New ones since last night’s wrap-up include a biography of robber baron Jay Gould, a big UK deal for a massive first novel based on the author’s real-life escapades on the run after breaking out of an Australian prison (which include working with the mujaheddin in Afghanistan), a big deal here for another memoir of life in Baghdad, and much more. We’ve got another new guest in the Forums at PublishersMarketplace.com for writers; agent Noah Lukeman — also the author of writer’s guides THE FIRST FIVE PAGES and THE PLOT THICKENS: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to […]

Frankfurt Deadline Coming I know many people are still trying to get prepared for BEA, but the print deadline for the Frankfurt exhibitor catalog is only weeks away. If you take advantage now of our new “boothless business center” service with the trade show experts at the American Collective Stand, you can get a listing in that catalog included in your package, along with a great introductory discount. Of course you also get a place to schedule a couple of meetings, receive messages and meeting people throughout the show, full-use of computers with high-speed internet access, printers, and fax machines, […]

From Washington Correspondent to White House Parody As it’s been most of the week, newspaper news has been light (so light that today we’ve got multiple pieces with the inside story on why Hillary Clinton chose Barbara Walters over her competitors for her first book-related interview next month), but our deal news has been heavy: 19 new deals just from yesterday, and well over 60 since our last Lunch Weekly round-up on Monday night. New books are on the way both from NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell and singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson, plus there’s a history of aphorisms, the first humor book […]

We Really Run This Every Day… To change your address, you need to sign up again, please. Please don’t e-mail us about it! New subscribers are always welcome, too — just visit the link below. Visit here to subscribe Memoirs, Making the Enquirer, and More A new memoir from actor Julia Sweeney, Evan Connell’s latest, coming of age in a traveling circus, a physicist’s look at the impact of the resolution of a thousand-year old mathematical problem, why Carol Alt eats it raw (her food that is), film rights to a forthcoming non-fiction book, the story of the National Enquirer […]

There’s Always Plenty of Deal News Once you leave aside tawdry JFK tidbits and more Stephen Glass it’s a pretty quiet day. There’s still plenty of deal news, though-a big biography of Warren Burger, a big fiction pre-empt, a deal for a Paris Review Discovery winner, real-life stories from the Underground Railroad by a Pulitzer finalist, and lots more. You’ll also find lots of resources for researching and making deals (plus the only contact database that’s updated daily), and all kinds of other essential information. And just for writers, join our weeklong discussion-in-progress at the Forums with Hearst Books publisher […]