A Busy Week for Deals Another 19 deals since last Friday morning, on top of over 70 for the week, including Alan Zweibel’s latest, fiction from a recent Guggenheim fellow, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s collaboration, the follow-up to a bestselling cookbook, and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day. Plus, our unique archive of recent book deals now has over 6,000 transactions, ready to search by editor, agent, house and more. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all of our other great features — an optional daily e-mail, our addictive book tracker to […]
Lunch for Friday, September 12
A Busy Week for Deals 22 new deals since yesterday morning (and over 60 already this week) include another good chick-lit deal, a new UK publisher for Jeanette Winterston (plus a big UK sale for a fashion world novel, and an authorized bio of The Clash’s Joe Strummer), a high-profile fitness program from a Mr. Universe-turned-nutrition company CEO, another deal for an HGTV personality, Bob Eubanks’ autobiography and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and just under 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Plus you get all of our other great features […]
Lunch for Thursday, September 11
Still More Deal News Once again, we’ve got well over a dozen brand-new deal reports, including the latest from bookseller favorite Sixpence House, the first look deep inside the RAND corporation, a look at the last stand of the wild horse in the American west, the life of a flower from field to market, a book from a controversial researcher investigating childhood sex abuse, and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and just under 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Plus you get all of our other great features — an optional […]
Lunch for Wednesday, September 10
Lott, Hart, Another Assistant, and More Over 20 new deal reports in the last day include Trent Lott finalizing his memoir deal, plus a sale for a National Book Award finalist, another “assistant novel” (this one about Hollywood), a big UK sale for Lauren Weisberger, Carolyn Hart’s latest, two new ones from Elizabeth Kolbert, a “malicious little novel” featuring a character that has appeared on This American Life, a film sale for Bangkok 8 (and another film sale for a book proposal that hasn’t been placed yet), and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and […]
Lunch for Tuesday, September 9
More New Deals Among the many new ones you wouldn’t find in last night’s fat Lunch Weekly are good sales for two thriller authors (one originally self-published), NBA finalist Atul Gawande’s ambitious new project, an Iowa grad’s debut novel, and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and just under 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Plus you get all of our other great features — an optional daily e-mail, our addictive book tracker to follow your books’ sales positions and cross-reference against bestseller lists, easily postable professional pages, an awesome contact database, […]
Lunch for Monday, September 8
The Latest Deals 20 new deals since Friday morning include a Beatles “insider” sharing his stories (and Paul McCartney provides the foreword), plus Harvard Medical School’s consumer line, the true story of a woman who became an acclaimed painter after going blind, Fox reporter Major Garrett’s reevaluation of the Republican takeover of Congress in 1995, Joan Lunden’s book on how better eating habits for children can extend lives, and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and just under 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Plus you get all of our other great […]