Michael Cader

Seven Days, Seven Bidders, Seven Figures The auction for Ron McLarty’s Stephen-King-backed MEMORY OF RUNNING has closed, as a British publisher grabs world English rights to the memoir from Saddam Hussein’s former physician, along with the first big foreign sale for Michelle Paver’s six-book fantasy series, a hot Canadian fiction pre-empt, and over 15 more brand new deal reports — and of course plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and now well over 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Join us now as a member and you can get all the deals all […]

Deal Updates A big UK sale for a new children’s novelist leads the 24-plus deals new since last night’s Lunch Weekly, along with lessons from the Velveteen Rabbit, cartoonist John Byrne’s first book for the Christian market, and of course plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and now well over 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Join us now as a member and you can get all the deals all the time, the best of our long-running features — 10,000 book reviews “clipped” and every day a new survey of the country’s top […]

Deal Updates Among the 17 new deals since last Friday morning are a bestselling British historian’s look at classic English tales, the two-century building of St. Peter’s Basilica, more children’s fantasy, living like the French without having to go there, 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 […]

Significant Day for Deals, If Not News Hurricane Isabel blew most of the publishing news out to sea today, though there’s still plenty of deal action. We’ve got significant deals for Teen People beauty director Tia Williams, novelist Lisa Tucker, former first lady Betty Ford, and the unusual team of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot and a Wall Street Journal editor (plus an “excellent” new deal for Harvey MacKay) leading off the reports, and as always more, plus new ones live during the day and our unique archive of recent book deals, now with over 6,000 transactions, ready to search by editor, […]

The Latest Deals, All the Time Pre-Frankfurt deal reports continue to be strong, with another 16 new ones, including an “Anne-Rice-meets-Nick-Hornby tale,” a new examination of the U.S. government’s dirty war against the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, a George Plimpton reprint, a big film sale for a forthcoming book that has Tom Cruise set to star, and much more and as always, new ones live during the day alongside our unique archive of recent book deals, now with over 6,000 transactions, ready to search by editor, agent, and house. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all […]

Boyle, Dash, West, and More Mike Dash’s look at a sensational turn-of-the-century murder trial, two big debut novel purchases by the same editor, new books from T.C. Boyle and Cornel West, a history of humours, and much more and as always, new ones live during the day alongside our unique archive of recent book deals, now with over 6,000 transactions, ready to search by editor, agent, and house. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also 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 […]