Significant Day for Deals, If Not News Hurricane Isabel blew most of the publishing news out to sea today, though there’s still plenty of deal action. We’ve got significant deals for Teen People beauty director Tia Williams, novelist Lisa Tucker, former first lady Betty Ford, and the unusual team of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot and a Wall Street Journal editor (plus an “excellent” new deal for Harvey MacKay) leading off the reports, 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, […]