Archives for October 2003

New Deals, Great Features For over 20 new deals that didn’t make last night’s weekly round-up — including an auction for a McSweeney’s contributor, Potter’s seven-figure lifestyle purchase, American Idol Randy Jackson’s advice, a big fiction deal for a former UK book editor, and plenty more — over 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 well over 6,000 deals. Join us now as a member at PublishersMarketplace to see them all live, search them all any time, and much more — you can Amazoom, […]

Libeskind Memoir On Submission Is it just my imagination, or is it a little trend-in-the-making to start publicizing proposals before the deals close? In any case, architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the new World Trade Center, is circulating a proposal for a memoir about his career, currently called FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMISM, through agent Scott Mendel. A portion of the earnings will be given to a fund that benefits the children of the victims of the World Trade Center tragedy. And new guy in town Lloyd Grove gives a lengthy plug to a memoir in circulation from screenwriter Elizabeth Anderson, STORMING […]

More Deals, Of Course Among the very latest are Rohinton Mistry’s new novel, the auction for The Art of Survival, a big deal for a Fulbright Fellow’s debut novel, and plenty more, with 60 new ones so far just since Tuesday’s roundup. Join us now as a member to see them all live, search them all any time, and much more — you can Amazoom, track your books faster than ever, search our contact database with thousands of industry leaders (updated every work day), follow all the major reviews with our simple and powerful database, post proposals and customized web […]

Woody Or Won’t He? The most interesting Frankfurt deal is looking like Woody Allen-in progress, though it’s not clear whether it should really even qualify as a “Frankfurt book.” As best we can cobble together, here’s what has happened: ICM submitted a brief proposal on Friday, in which Allen says that “he is a breaker of taboos — the taboo of family, the taboo of race.” He’s also breaking one or two dealmaking taboos, and has indicated that he’ll only actually write the book if publishers give him enough money, without specifying what’s enough of course. HarperCollins UK has officially […]

Deals, Of Course With Frankfurt underway there’s lots of deal news, of course; most newsworthy is the signing of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, at the heart of the controversy over whether the Bush administration leaked news revealing his wife as a covert intelligence agent in retribution for his statements regarding faulty intelligence about Iraq that found its way into Bush’s State of the Union speech — but there’s also a look at Louisa May Alcott and her father (a well-known transcendentalist and Utopion idealist), a book on ballet from a top practitioner, a biography of Amerigo Vespucci, how to prevent […]

Generals (and a British office), CEOs, and Lots More General Tommy Franks’ big memoir sale is drawing the headlines today, but B.K.S. Iyengar’s new yoga book got seven figures (and a bio of General Wesley Clark is on the way) — as other deal news includes a big UK buy for a self-published novel, the Saatchi and Saatchi CEO looks at the future of brands, boardroom lessons from the woman who founded Parenting Magazine, new insights drawn from the papers (and granddaughter) of the British officer in charge of the camps which built the bridge on the River Kwai, a […]