Archives for November 2003

The Latest We’ve already got over 20 deals new since last night’s big weekly round-up, including Scholastic’s latest seven-figure trilogy buy, a historian’s take on Valley Forge, a Nobel-winning physicist’s ruminations in the vein of Richard Feynman, novelist Gary Krist’s narrative non-fiction, a big deal for a first novel from an English journalist, a Canadian […]

The Latest In advance of another big fat weekly deal round-up, there’s news of Billy Corgan’s poetry collection, Kate White’s movie deal, a fresh lens on the events of 9/11, a guide from a writing coach and newspaper editor, the US sale for Tahir Shah’s Moroccan version of a Year of Provence, a big deal […]

Margolin, Kalman, Cash and More We’ve already got almost 90 new deals this week. Among the very latest: Phillip Margolin’s big deal, Maira Kalman writes (and draws) for adults, first fiction at auction, a new embedded journalist on his way to Iraq to observe the reconstruction, an unusual home for the exclusive authorized biography of […]

Another 30 Plus Deals Yet another big deal day, with over 30 new reports, including Gordon Wise’s first buy at John Murray, a major foreign sale for Michelle Paver’s series, “perhaps the most important SF trilogy of the past decade to remain unpublished in the United States,” and still much more — plus as always, […]

A Spy’s Own, Brooks’ Return, and More Among the 22 deals new since yesterday: Ex-head of M15 Stella Rimington’s debut thriller, Terry Brooks’ long-awaited return to the MAGIC KINGDOM OF LANDOVER, a major deal for Leonard Maltin, a social history of bodily cleanliness, more news from Rosie O’Donnell (this time optioning a book, for a […]

Vowell, Truong, Impeaching Bush and More New just since last night’s big weekly deal round-up we’ve got over 20 fresh reports, including Sarah Vowell’s latest, more Trading Spaces, an agent’s first book-a memoir-sold in a pre-empt and optioned for film, Monique Truong’s latest, a fresh look at the Charge of the Light Brigade, MacArthur fellow […]