Archives for June 2003

From Bush’s Brain to the Mommy Brain and Back Again Among the 17 new ones since last Friday: the co-author of Bush’s Brain returns to his favorite subject, a big first fiction sale in the UK that’s coming this way shortly, a member of Hillary’s ghost team examines “the phenomenon of the political outlaw,” a […]

More Big Deals A big film deal for the DaVinci Code, a journalist/dad’s take on Soccer Nation, Penguin signs a bestselling conservative author, Lawrence Thornton’s new novel and more fiction at auction, a big deal for Britain’s answer to Walter Cronkite, all about JFK, hats and American culture, and still plenty more. As ever, members […]

We Now Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Programming Thanks for your patience; Lunch will pick up its as-regular-as-usual schedule today, though beware of slightly foggy/jet-lagged reports for the next couple of days. Catching Up on Deals I know you got two Deal weeklies while I was gone, and since the last update we’ve already got about […]

See You Later! Taking full advantage of our trademark “Except when not,” I’m leaving on vacation later today. There will be no Lunch next week and, depending upon the state of my Internet access in a far away land, Lunch will resume sometime between June 23 and June 26. There will, however, be a big […]

Deal News Among the dozen or so new ones, there’s James Wolcott’s book about the cable news business, the story of Huck Finn’s friend Jim as told by his enslaved wife, a sale for a proposal spotted by the editor on the PublishersMarketplace rights board, a Beverly Hills party planner advises on bar mitzvahs, a […]

The Latest Almost 20 new deals since yesterday morning to share, including a dual memoir from the history-making sisters Loretta & Linda Sanchez, the first such pair to serve in Congress together, a pre-empt for a successfully self-published novel, a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln, more secrets of baby whispering, more volumes in a bestselling […]