Archives for September 2003

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 can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive, now bursting with over 6,000 deals. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all of our other great features — our addictive (and now faster-than-ever) book tracker to […]

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 writer/producer’s “Reluctant Tuscan,” the U.S. sale for the British sensation PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS, “Sex in the City meets Misery,” a biography of Secretariat, and still plenty more. More than ever in these pre-Fair days, we’ve got new ones reported live all day, […]

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 more, plus new ones live during the day and our unique archive of recent book deals, now with over 6,000 transactions, ready to search by editor, agent, house and more. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all of our other great features — […]

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 brand new deal reports — and of course plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and now well over 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Join us now as a member and you can get all the deals all […]

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 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Join us now as a member and you can get all the deals all the time, the best of our long-running features — 10,000 book reviews “clipped” and every day a new survey of the country’s top […]

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 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Plus you get all of our other great features — an optional daily e-mail, our addictive book tracker to follow your books’ sales positions and cross-reference against bestseller lists, easily postable professional pages, an awesome contact […]