30 More Deals That’s our tally for the last 24 hours, including: a film buy for a novel that hasn’t been sold yet, a US sale for a British bestseller, the dramatic story of the raft of the Medusa, a day in the life of American women, the story of blue jeans, a hot first novel, a big book on Conrad Black, 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 […]
Lunch for Tuesday, March 2
Nannies Sale, Roth’s Newest, and More As usual, on top of last night’s big deal round-up, we’ve already got well over 20 new transactions, including: A new home for the Nanny Diaries authors’ next novel, Philip Roth’s latest, a year in the life of a fantasy football junkie, an inside look at Senator John Carrey, 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 deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of nearly 7,000 deals to […]
Lunch for Monday, March 1
New Deals Among the latest from last week’s 80-plus deals, two major fiction deals, a chronicle of sorry apologies, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s companion to Band of Brothers, driving cross country, 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 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 […]
Lunch for Friday, February 27
Bin Ladin, Sorrenstam, War Comics, and More The big auction for the book by a sister-in-law of Osama Bin Laden, film rights to Jabez, golfing Annika’s way, a big publishers picks up the next Get Your War On, narrative non-fiction about a tiny Texas town’s six-man high school football team, a major deal for Roger Housden, first fiction already drawing lots of international interest, two books that shed light on overlooked corners of history, and still plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where […]
Lunch for Thursday, February 26
Today’s Lame Links Not to bore with you details, but because today’s Lunch was assembled from on the road via a painfully slow modem, my browser wasn’t properly capturing the actual links. Sources are all credited as usual, so searching for articles you’re interested in shouldn’t be too hard. As you’ll see, we’ve got considerable on-the-fly coverage of this morning’s AAP annual meeting-along my standard disclaimer regarding the pitfalls of simultaneously listening, synthesizing, and typing. (And because it was written in sequence, the second piece on retailers actually has more sparks in it.) Second thoughts, if any, tomorrow. Unbridled in […]
Lunch for Wednesday, February 25
Schedule Note I’ll be at the AAP meeting in Washington tomorrow, so it’s possible that Lunch will be served late. The Very Latest Among the 20 brand-new deals: Film rights to a children’s trilogy, Katha Pollitt’s latest, a Southern epic, a novel about Enrico Caruso as seen through the eyes of the women who loved him, more chick lit, a popular take on physics, new documents shed extra light on the charge of the famous brigade, and still plenty of others. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining […]