Michael Cader

There’s Always Plenty of Deal News Once you leave aside tawdry JFK tidbits and more Stephen Glass it’s a pretty quiet day. There’s still plenty of deal news, though-a big biography of Warren Burger, a big fiction pre-empt, a deal for a Paris Review Discovery winner, real-life stories from the Underground Railroad by a Pulitzer finalist, and lots more. You’ll also find lots of resources for researching and making deals (plus the only contact database that’s updated daily), and all kinds of other essential information. And just for writers, join our weeklong discussion-in-progress at the Forums with Hearst Books publisher […]

Fiction Auction, More From Iraq, McSweeney’s Remix, and More Two new books about the conflict in Iraq from foreign journalists-one British and one Australian (that one publishes there next month)-plus the auction for Zoetrope All-Story founder Adrienne Brodeur’s first novel, a new diet that modulates dairy consumption as the key to weight loss, an unusual “remix” of a McSweeney’s book in paperback, George Soros on why America is on top only temporarily, revelations of a female FBI agent, and still more-all at PublishersMarketplace.com, where new deals are posted live every day, and archived by the thousands for searching and reference. […]

Iraq Books, Conservative Writers, and Much More What might be the first book in the Iraqi conflict from a “name” writer (not to mention another prominent general and a UK journalist weighing with books of their own), conservative titles on everything from LIBERAL FACISM and the rise of the neoconservatives to Norman Podhoretz’s latest, a big auction for an anthology of women writers, 100 how-to essays from 100 well-known experts, a pre-empt for a novel from a former pop singer, and still plenty more, with new ones posted during the day. Our industry-leading archive is now just under 5,000 deals. […]

BEA Live As you may remember from the last couple of years, there’s one source at BEA for complete and live coverage of the convention written entirely as it happens — our specially-flavored Convention Lunch. (Last year we generated over 7,500 words of coverage in three days.) This year we’ve got some cool new twists to make Convention Lunch tastier and more filling than ever. We do still have some advertiser/sponsor slots open-and the more support we have, the more Lunch we can cook. E-mail us for more info. AMS Warns of Bad Fourth Quarter, with “Exceptionally High Returns” AMS […]

From Iraq to Davy Crockett, and More Another report from inside the Iraqi conflict, from two men who accompanied 18 different units over three weeks, plus Joanna Trollope’s new US publisher, the full story behind Davy Crockett, first fiction auctions, a look at America’s mental health crisis, award-winning food writer Alan Richman’s collection, and much 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 features now that everyone’s got a different favorite: * The “addictive” […]

Big Dollars for 50 Cent, Further Tales from Iraq, and More Even more new deals than usual yesterday, including full details on the big sale of rapper 50 Cent’s autobiography, an appreciative analysis of the performance of American armed forces in Iraq as well as the story of an Iraqi woman who survived imprisonment under Sadam Hussein, an authorized look behind the scenes of the Academy Awards, an “anti-Rules dating book” that uses lessons learned from Jane Austen’s novels, lots of fiction sales, and still plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) […]