Lots of Deal News We’ve got 18 new pre-Frankfurt deals just from yesterday that didn’t make last night’s big Lunch Weekly, posted over at PublishersMarketplace.com — including lots of fiction, three different big “chef books” led by Mario Batali, solutions from “Father Oprah,” and lots more. They’re all viewable right now at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members […]
Archives for September 2003
Lunch for Friday, September 26
Big Deals Lining Up for Frankfurt Can you really be getting ready for Frankfurt without monitoring the new deal reports every day (as well as contributing your own to stoke pre-Fair interest)? Among the many big deals just posted, a big sale for another British historian, a hot detective series in the UK, a TV […]
Lunch for Thursday, September 25
Rapper, Reprint, and Revised History Hans Blix’s book is set up around the world, as Rapper Jay-Z tell his story, plus there’s a reprint for the author who says the DaVinci Code borrows from his book, a revisionist history of President Andrew Johnson, and plenty of fiction are among the dozen latest, and as always […]
Lunch for Wednesday, September 24
Seven Days, Seven Bidders, Seven Figures The auction for Ron McLarty’s Stephen-King-backed MEMORY OF RUNNING has closed, as a British publisher grabs world English rights to the memoir from Saddam Hussein’s former physician, along with the first big foreign sale for Michelle Paver’s six-book fantasy series, a hot Canadian fiction pre-empt, and over 15 more […]
Lunch for Tuesday, September 23
Deal Updates A big UK sale for a new children’s novelist leads the 24-plus deals new since last night’s Lunch Weekly, along with lessons from the Velveteen Rabbit, cartoonist John Byrne’s first book for the Christian market, and of course plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and now well over 6,000 […]
Lunch for Monday, September 22
Deal Updates Among the 17 new deals since last Friday morning are a bestselling British historian’s look at classic English tales, the two-century building of St. Peter’s Basilica, more children’s fantasy, living like the French without having to go there, and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and just under […]