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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]