Michael Cader

Leading the News A snow day (we could go out, but the kids are home) meets a slow day (newswise), but once again there are plenty of substantive new deals. Among the 16 new ones since yesterday: Actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman plan a travel diary of their upcoming transcontinental motorcycle ride, a literary agent’s “upmarket thriller,” Stephen R. Donaldson finishes his book series with four more titles, how Israel got its “nuclear option” and what it means post 9/11, a book on Vietnam that draws on in-depth access to former Defense Secretary James McNamara pop-punk band Relient K […]

Lots of New Deals Among the 16 new ones, highlights include: Po Bronson’s latest, a columnist and TV commentator asserts that BUSH MUST GO, a big biography of legendary quarterback Johnny Unitas, a big film sale for a novel-in-progress that’s not sold yet, commemorating 50 years of Face the Nation, a forensic expert’s biggest cases, 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 […]

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 […]