Michael Cader

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 […]

Welcome Back It’s a bit of a long catch-up Lunch today. Plus, we’ve got about 25 new deals since our last weekly round-up posted over at PublishersMarketplace — I’m not sure yet whether we’ll send out a full round-up this week or wait for next Monday. Our unique database now officially has over 7,000 transactions archived and ready to search by editor, house, author, agent, and more. Available only to members of the site, it’s part of the package that includes all of our great features — including Who Represents, the Book Tracker, Amazoom, the Book Review Index, the most […]

One Last Lunch Before 2003 is over. Below is an assortment of accumulated items that may be of interest. There’s a modest number of new deals posted over at PublishersMarketplace, and as announced previously, we’ve brought our trial period back out one more time over the holidays, when many of you may actually have a little time to explore all we have offer. If you join, you can view our first-ever list of forecasts for the year, and in a day or two we’ll also post a look at the some of the things that went right in 2003. Sign […]

Our Holiday Diet As noted yesterday, we’ll be giving up Lunch for the bulk of the holidays. We’ll definitely have a meaty deal round-up for you early next week. Our daily deal reporting will continue at PublishersMarketplace.com throughout the holiday period, and probably any timely items will be posted straight to the news pages at the site. By tonight or tomorrow, we’ll have a long list of predictions for 2004 posted exclusively at the web site, and we may add a few more treats. Which makes it a great time to join us a member, and use some of that […]

Kitchen Closings I know the holidays are famous for encouraging overeating, but here at Lunch the kitchen is likely to be closed for long stretches. As usual, our exact schedule is to be determined, but here’s what you can expect: We’ll definitely have a big fat deal round-up for you early next week. Our daily deal reporting will continue at PublishersMarketplace.com throughout the holiday period, and probably any timely items will be posted straight to the news pages at the site (we’ll have another treat or two, also — more on that shortly). Which makes it a great time to […]