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Archives for October 2003

Lunch for Wednesday, October 15

October 15, 2003
By Michael Cader

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 […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, October 14

October 14, 2003
By Michael Cader

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. […]

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Lunch for Friday, October 10

October 10, 2003
By Michael Cader

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 […]

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Lunch for Thursday, October 9

October 9, 2003
By Michael Cader

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 […]

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Lunch for Wednesday, October 8

October 8, 2003
By Michael Cader

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 […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, October 7

October 7, 2003
By Michael Cader

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 […]

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