Michael Cader

From Six Figures to 50 Cent Six figures for a first novel called THE BOTOX DIARIES, a big US sale for a French bestseller, 50 Cent finally makes his deal, a book that promises “the truth behind Robert Kennedy’s assassination,” a retired officer and television analyst on how North Korea became so evil, paperback rights to a recent LA Times book award winner, a big mystery deal, and plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) is one of the big draws for lots of members of PublishersMarketplace, but the site is packed […]

Another Trilogy, Another Marine As usual lots of new deals, including yet another big trilogy sale for a young UK author, a Marine reservist from Gulf War I combines a Jarhead-esque memoir with an insider’s look at the experiences of the huge numbers of reservists who drive much of today’s US armed forces, a first fiction pre-empt, a good deal for a French bestseller, and plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) is one of the big draws for lots of members of PublishersMarketplace, but the site is packed with so many […]

Inside the Al Qaeda Interrogations and More Countless brand-new deals, including an anonymous interrogator at a U.S. detention center in Afghanistan providing an insider’s account of the interrogation of suspected Al Qaeda prisoners in a major deal while a Mafia insider shares life lessons learned from the Mob, plus new fiction from Graham Parker, a look at the ill-fated relationship between the great Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner, a highly praised novel, an NPR reporter’s war account from Baghdad (including the Iraqi viewpoint by way or her driver), a book by publisher John Donatich, and lots more. Constant access to […]

First SARS Books and Much More By the time I finish loading them in we’ll have 20 new deals since Friday, including the first SARS books, a memoir about father, golf, and Scotland, a good deal for new historical fiction, and a number of new deals from one those houses a trade magazine thinks isn’t acquiring including new books from John Feinstein and Herman Wouk, and lots more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) is one of the big draws for lots of members of PublishersMarketplace, but the site is packed with so […]

Following Blair, New Historical Theories, and More Another 15 new reports from yesterday (and 60 so far this week), including British journalist Peter Stothard’s remarkable up-close look at Tony Blair during the Iraq conflict, the first biography of Mary Todd Lincoln’s family (which fought on both sides of the Civil War), a revisionist history of the World War era as an American campaign to destroy the British Empire and replace it with an American Empire, another fresh historical perspective on the Revolutionary War through the perspective of Native American woman Molly Brant, more movies deal, a six-figure fiction sale, a […]

The Latest Deals Another 14 new ones, including an NPR contributor’s comic novel, the UK auction for a real-life (if slightly goofy) quest for the Holy Grail, two big WWII books (including one that tells the story of the single most decorated American unit in the war and their miraculous stand during the Battle of the Bulge), lessons from maverick advertising titan Donny Deutsch, a new look at the life and letters of St. Patrick, a journalist turns a magazine article into book about how he accidentally shot his best friend, and plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and […]