Michael Cader

Movies, Football, and More Clint Eastwood buys film rights to a manuscript being shopped to publishers later this month and a current bestseller gets picked up for film as well, along with the physics of football, a first fiction pre-empt, and many more new deals — over 50 since the beginning of the week and growing as everyone prepares for London. Access the only live daily deal reporting in the business, as well as the largest deal archive anywhere, get an optional daily deal e-mail, and enjoy many other services and benefits when you join us as a member at […]

Yo, Yao; A Menaker Buy; Much More With everyone preparing for the London Book Fair we reported 23 new deals yesterday with surely more to come today: highlights include a non-fiction purchase for Random by Dan Menaker, the story of two seven-foot Chinese basketball players, a major new thriller deal, first fiction at auction and a highly recommended literary psychological thriller, a deal for comedian Wanda Sykes, a fresh look at the map that coined the name “America,” another big movie deal for a children’s trilogy that launches today, and truly plenty more. Access the only live daily deal reporting […]

Ever More Deals Lots of new deals fresh since last night’s Lunch Weekly, including a big new deal for Mary Jane Clark, multiple promising first fiction sales (one a big UK deal; one a fashion world novel from a women’s magazine writer now living in Australia), a major film buy for a forthcoming thriller, a prominent female executive on Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men — And What to Do So We Will, a big sale for an educator’s take on improving children’s essential social skills, and still plenty more. As usual, PublisherMarketplace.com members can see them all, view […]

Lots of New Deals Plenty of interesting deals since Friday and dozens in all in advance of Lunch Weekly, including continuing attention for the founding mothers with a big biography of Martha Washington and a separate project called America’s Revolutionary Mothers, plus the biography of near-contemporary the Marquise du Chatelet, first fiction touted as “a female version of THE CORRECTIONS,” a continuation of the trend for collections of linked stores, deal details for Lee Child’s new publisher and movie option, and as ever, lots more. Access the only live daily deal reporting in the business, as well as the largest […]

Rock Memoirs, New Fiction, Narrative Non-fiction and More Big pre-London sales continue — get the jump now of dozens of the week’s newest sales, including the uncanny signing of books by both Red Hot Chili Peppers leader Anthony Kiedis and Tommy Lee, hot independent filmmakers The Polish Brothers tell how they do it (and why filmmaking is like plumbing), a top British TV writer’s Hornbyesque debut novel, new fiction for Morgan Entrekin and a pre-empt for an Iowa grad’s debut, a big book on homeland security springboarded by a NYT Magazine article, a dramatic retelling of the race to complete […]

I’m late for the train… sorry for the typos… The Latest A big memoir sale at auction, Hot Zone author Richard Preston’s warmer fiction, the US sale for The Knife Man, more from the author of the Bombshell Manual of Style, and as ever, lots of new ones. Make PublishersMarketplace.com your home page (as many of your colleagues have) and get access any time to our Deal of the Day, the top story from Lunch, breaking news as warrants, the latest book reviews from major newspapers, the most recent rights and proposal postings, charts of our most visited links, handy […]