Archives for September 2003

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, […]

The Latest Deals, All the Time Pre-Frankfurt deal reports continue to be strong, with another 16 new ones, including an “Anne-Rice-meets-Nick-Hornby tale,” a new examination of the U.S. government’s dirty war against the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, a George Plimpton reprint, a big film sale for a forthcoming book that has Tom Cruise set to star, and much more and as always, new ones live during the day alongside our unique archive of recent book deals, now with over 6,000 transactions, ready to search by editor, agent, and house. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all […]

Boyle, Dash, West, and More Mike Dash’s look at a sensational turn-of-the-century murder trial, two big debut novel purchases by the same editor, new books from T.C. Boyle and Cornel West, a history of humours, and much more and as always, new ones live during the day alongside our unique archive of recent book deals, now with over 6,000 transactions, ready to search by editor, agent, and house. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also 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 […]

More New Deals Plenty of new deals just since last night’s big Lunch Weekly, including a memoir from Ronald Reagan’s adopted son, literary fiction, the auction for the book by the woman who tried to cook all of Julia Child’s recipes from the Art of French Cooking, a novel from a comic book star, 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 […]

A Busy Week for Deals Another 19 deals since last Friday morning, on top of over 70 for the week, including Alan Zweibel’s latest, fiction from a recent Guggenheim fellow, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s collaboration, the follow-up to a bestselling cookbook, and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day. Plus, our unique archive of recent book deals now has 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 — an optional daily e-mail, our addictive book tracker to […]

A Busy Week for Deals 22 new deals since yesterday morning (and over 60 already this week) include another good chick-lit deal, a new UK publisher for Jeanette Winterston (plus a big UK sale for a fashion world novel, and an authorized bio of The Clash’s Joe Strummer), a high-profile fitness program from a Mr. Universe-turned-nutrition company CEO, another deal for an HGTV personality, Bob Eubanks’ autobiography 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 […]