Archives for May 2003

That’s Author Grandma To You A British grandmother gets big money for her first novel, plus big deals for a general reader’s guide to mathematical magic and the adventures of female mountain climbers are the latest among the 60 new deals from last week. 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 features now that everyone’s got a different favorite: The “addictive” book tracker to follow your online sales and lots of bestseller lists The […]

Williamson Moves, a Peterson Book, and More 50 new deals so far this week, as Marianne Williamson moves houses again, plus there’s a big pre-empt for a new program to avoid osteoporosis, the first book about the Laci Peterson case, a look at female climbers scaling the world’s second highest mountain, a Pulitzer winner’s first nonfiction book (on gay marriage), more literary first fiction, and still 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 […]

From Six Figures to 50 Cent Six figures for a first novel called THE BOTOX DIARIES, a big US sale for a French bestseller, 50 Cent finally makes his deal, a book that promises “the truth behind Robert Kennedy’s assassination,” a retired officer and television analyst on how North Korea became so evil, paperback rights to a recent LA Times book award winner, a big mystery deal, 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 […]