More Big Deals A big film deal for the DaVinci Code, a journalist/dad’s take on Soccer Nation, Penguin signs a bestselling conservative author, Lawrence Thornton’s new novel and more fiction at auction, a big deal for Britain’s answer to Walter Cronkite, all about JFK, hats and American culture, and still plenty more. As ever, members of PublishersMarketplace.com can check the new deals any time, get them delivered by e-mail, and search our deal archive (now with nearly 5,500 transactions). For the same low month-to-month fee, you get access to all of our great site features, from the “addictive” book tracker […]
Lunch for Thursday, June 26
We Now Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Programming Thanks for your patience; Lunch will pick up its as-regular-as-usual schedule today, though beware of slightly foggy/jet-lagged reports for the next couple of days. Catching Up on Deals I know you got two Deal weeklies while I was gone, and since the last update we’ve already got about 50 new ones posted from just the last few days. Selected highlights include a behind-the-scenes look at Broadway stars, a blacklisted actor’s memoir of life in exile, a big sale for the Park Avenue version of Nanny Diaries/Devil Wears Prada, the first of many books […]
Lunch for Tuesday, June 10
The Latest Almost 20 new deals since yesterday morning to share, including a dual memoir from the history-making sisters Loretta & Linda Sanchez, the first such pair to serve in Congress together, a pre-empt for a successfully self-published novel, a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln, more secrets of baby whispering, more volumes in a bestselling Japanese series come to America, and still plenty more (not to mention full access to our 5,000-plus deal archive). 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 […]
Lunch for Monday, June 9
Deal News Among the 16 new deals since last Friday morning, there’s a business parable from the former head of the Ken Blanchard companies, a book option for Tom Cruise’s production company, a major follow-up deal for a top weight loss business, a parenting book that favors long-term fixes, another big deal starting in the UK, and lots more (not to mention full access to our 5,000-plus deal archive). 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, […]
Lunch for Friday, June 6
Ever More We’ve got 20 new deals that didn’t get packed into last night’s catch-up Lunch Weekly at PublishersMarketplace, including the winners and losers in the Bush economy, a major mystery deal, punk rock aerobics, a soap star reflects, two successful novels from other countries, the story of a black helicopter gunship pilot and his white racist captain after they were shot down over Vietnam, and lots more (not to mention full access to our 5,000-plus deal archive). Plus you get all of our other great features — an optional daily e-mail, our addictive book tracker to follow your books’ […]
Lunch for Thursday, June 5
Dozens of New Deals We’ve got over a dozen new deals from yesterday — the battle with the Holocaust denier, a major thriller sale, a big sale on both sides of the Atlantic for a bestselling British historian, why failure and success in business are “not episodes but trajectories,” plus another 10 that I need to post once Lunch goes out, and lots more. Join us now as a member and besides all the deals you get all our great features (including the “addictive” book tracker, the unique book review database, the most up-to-date contact database in the business, postable […]