Archives for January 2004

Still More Deals We’ve already got plenty of new reports since last night’s big fat deal round-up. Highlights include: a big film deal for a forthcoming novel, a business book on “freeing yourself from emotional traps in the workplace,” six figures for a novel described as “Bridget Jones meets Tootsie,” of course plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of over 7,000 deals to analyze by editors, agents, […]

The Latest Deals There are plenty of new transactions to catch up on: Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro draw headlines for their collaborative memoir, as an ad exec and former cell biologist examines the DNA of success and another former executive identifies trust as the missing element among today’s corporate leaders, with lots of fiction, and of course plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of over […]

Once Again, Lots of Deals Another robust day for deal reports, including: a first novel from an 18-year-old Nigerian student (and lots more fiction, including an author called “reminiscent of Rohinton Mistry and V.S. Naipaul”), the memoir of a recently retired Army officer who concealed that he was gay while serving, a female neurosurgeon with “a kind of Kitchen Confidential for neurosurgery,” a City Journal editor on “the end of the liberal monopoly,” and even two narrative non-fiction books about birds (one about the scarlet macaws, the other about the marbled murrelet), plus plenty more — we’ve added 65 in […]

23 New Deals Among them: Bestseller Robert Harris changes houses, the “end of the liberal monopoly,” a major deal for film rights to a psychological thriller that’s being submitted to publishers now, a revealing memoir from the chief of Saddam Hussein’s uranium processing program, why “George Steinbrenner is a Big, Fat Idiot,” a translation of “arguably the greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century,” advice from Deepak Chopra’s daughter for teaching children beliefs and values, a civil rights crusader’s memoir, and of course plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it […]

Lots of New Deals Among the 17 new deals since yesterday: a major deal for a chronicle of suburban life, a new thriller writer from the UK, the Bush-Hater’s Handbook, getting toddlers to sleep, a season-long account of professional bull riding, and as always, lots more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of over 7,000 deals to analyze by editors, agents, houses, trends and more. Our memberships are month-to-month, […]

Lots of New Deals Deal reports are back up with full force again — highlights of the many latest include a former Life Magazine managing editor’s adventures in high stakes poker, a biography of late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, a new house for a PEN/Hemingway winner’s second novel, a romance author moves to a trade publisher, the book version of a popular Aspen Institute seminar series, the Purpose-Driven Life for kids, and lots more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily […]