Archives for July 2003

Deal News As the wires recount today, Jay Leno’s written a picture book, IF ROAST BEEF COULD FLY, with illustrations by S.B. Whitehouse, for publication next summer-by an unnamed publisher. When he was a child, Leno was “fascinated by the roast beef going around the spit” and experimented by getting his plastic comb stuck in the string wrapped around the meat. But we’ve got fuller reports on nearly 20 other deals, including a thriller pitched as “reminiscent of George Pelecanos with shades of early James Patterson,” a wrestler turned self-help guru, a new TV deal for Terry Kay, bestselling novelist […]

Children’s Books Score Big Again British Reverend Graham Taylor self-published his novel for children SHADOWMANCER, “a tale of Christianity and black magic set in the 17th century,” last year and managed to do well in Waterstone’s with it. Faber published the book in paperback last month and has already sold 20,000 copies, with more momentum building, and now Penguin Putnam has bought US rights for a reported $500,000. On top of that, there’s a huge 6-book children’s sale in the UK for a series the publisher is keeping undercover until Frankfurt, plus big auctions in the US and the UK […]

Deal News About 15 new deals so far since our last dispatch, including a good deal for a few fitness program favored by many female movie stars, a Dutch bestseller gets two English-language publishers, a major deal for a British television personality, an inspirational collection edited by a well-known publishing executive, an answer to “why white kids love hip hop,” and as ever, plenty more-plus new ones live as we hear them, and our unparalleled archive of over 5,500 recent deals to search. Plus you get all of our other great features-an optional daily e-mail, our addictive book tracker to […]

Le Carre Moves, Another Gore Writes, and More Over a dozen new ones again since yesterday, including: John le Carre moves houses, Kristin Gore’s first novel, a big book on diabetes, an auction for a book that uses computer analysis to show the relationship among names, Nicholas von Hoffman goes after the Bush administration, and much more, all posted at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive, now bursting with over 5,500 deals. Join PublishersMarketplace.com today as a member and you can see all the deal news, and […]

Deal News Among the latest dozen or more deals: a book about the uncharacteristic triumph of race horse Funny Cide and the team of non-blueblood owners, unglamorous trainer and over-the-hill jockey, another big paperback sale, outlandish adventures along the silk road, a well-known magazine writer’s take on two iconic cultural critics, a new look at Jay Gould, and much more, all posted at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive of over 5,500 deals. Join PublishersMarketplace.com today as a member and you can see all the deal news, […]

Seth Auction, Idol Bonanza and More Deals drive the headlines today, as the eight publisher UK auction for Vikram Seth’s new book ends with Little, Brown getting rights for just about the rumored amount of $2.25 million, and a North American rights offering following soon from agent Irene Skolnick. With far less hand-wringing Simon Cowell is voted a $2 million advance for his book, and other big deals include Zbigniew Brzezinski’s latest, a new one from the author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, a big film deal for a book that’s still being written, a big paperback deal, and still plenty […]