30 More Once again, we’re reported over 30 new deals since yesterday. Highlights include an Oprah pick’s new novel, a big thriller deal, a former agent’s first novel, fiction from Zadie Smith’s boyfriend, a big recipe collection from Anne Willan, and still plenty more. To be prepared for London, check the Latest Deals regularly through PublishersMarketplace.com. (Where you can also get a daily deal meal, search almost 8,000 deals and the even bigger Who Represents database, and use a variety of tools to make deals and sell rights.) There probably will not be a deal round-up again until after LBF […]
Lunch for Wednesday, March 10
Another 30 Continuing the pattern for the week with the London Book Fair coming up, deal reports once again dominate the news. We’ve added more than 30 new ones since yesterday (giving us over 60 so far since Monday’s round-up). Selected highlights include: Life lessons from the Jets’ head coach, a respected publisher’s own debut thriller, an expansive history of gambling, Napoleon’s final days in power, a family that tracks down the descendants of the family that sheltered their grandfather during the Holocaust, how George Washington used espionage, more fiction, a guide to the “yoga lifestyle,” the return to the […]
Lunch for Tuesday, March 9
So Many Deals I know we just sent out almost 90 deals last night, but with the London Book Fair looming we’ve already logged nearly 40 more new deals this week. Highlights include: seven figures on both sides of the Atlantic for Robin Hobb’s next three fantasies, eight figures for Dean Koontz, the big finale to the Dune chronicles, bestselling British author William Horwood’s memoir, a significant deal for on-the-scene accounts of the heaviest German raid on London in WWII, local-newspaper favorite Donna Hanover’s book on love the second time around, Jeanette Winterson moving to a new publisher, Venus and […]
Lunch for Monday, March 8
Elvis to Paris and Back Again Elvis Costello, Van Gogh’s women, Paris Hilton’s dog, high-profile film options, a recent Pulitzer winner’s latest, and lots more since Friday morning — leading almost 90 new deals since our last round-up. 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 nearly 7,000 deals to analyze editors, agents, houses, trends and more. And the best way to stay on top of everything else in publishing […]
Lunch for Friday, March 5
Conroy, Vidal, Gazzara, Oliver, and Still More Something different from Pat Conroy, a big UK fiction sale headed to New York and Hollywood soon, the memoir of an FBI agent who encountered some of our most notorious criminals, Gore Vidal’s appraisal of the “Enron-Pentagon prison,” memoirs from actor Ben Gazzara and an independent bookseller, working the obituary beat, Jamie Oliver’s latest, and still plenty more — already 80 new ones just this week! 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 […]
Lunch for Thursday, March 4
25 More Deals That’s our tally for the last 24 hours, including: Inside Metallica, golf’s answer to Seabiscuit, the making of California rock, lots of fiction, and 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 nearly 7,000 deals to analyze editors, agents, houses, trends and more. And the best way to stay on top of everything else in publishing is through our other great features (which you get […]