Michael Cader

The Latest Deals There’s Spalding Gray’s latest, the first crusader, a Madame Tussaud pre-empt, a female adventurer, and lots more in advance of Deal Lunch, reported live during the day and searchable all the time for PublishersMarketplace members. Plus, now members can also read Lunch on the Web and access our new archive of previous Lunches. Try joining us. Register here See all the latest deals Judge Stops Football Anthology After Baldacci Objects A New York District Court issued a preliminary injunction blocking New Millennium Press’s forthcoming collection of stories about football, edited by Otto Penzler, after contributor David Baldacci […]

The Latest Deals A big deal offers a political biography of Dolley Madison’s role in the formation of both the power and political structures of Washington in its earliest days, plus there’s a look at the science behind the scale that has been used to measure the wind since the 19th century, a quick unofficial Osbournes book, a new blending of Buddhism and psychology, and more — viewable all the time for PublishersMarketplace.com members. Plus, now members can read Lunch on the Web and access our new archive of previous Lunches. Try joining us. Register here See all the latest […]

Will New York Read? One of the mysteries we looked at in Convention Lunch was whatever became of the New York Reads program. Before the whining and complaining set in, the initial plan had been to announce the official selection during BEA. Everyone we spoke to points to Reed as the driving force behind the program, but the BEA spokesperson has had no comment or information for us. Today though, buried in an article in the New York Daily News, is an indication of progress — the paper says “organizers have finally settled on James McBride’s THE COLOR OF WATER.” […]

The Latest Deals It should be no big surprise that as we catch up from the last few days there’s a wealth of new deals, including: a film deal for an Orange candidate, a major study of aggression in women, a women’s magazine editor’s frank look at modern marriage, a big first fiction pre-empt for Knopf, a singer-songwriter’s dark memoir, two big fitness books with Eastern twists, a dual biography of Hollywood’s Wassermans, a “shiksa’s” view of her world, a touching story of a quest to adopt a Chinese child, and still more. We’ll pull together a Deal Lunch as […]

The Latest Deals Lots of big new deals, including a six-book look at violence for McSweeney’s Books, Tony Hendra’s memoir, a history of hip, more from Zoetrope, a major book on the American Catholic church, and much more. It might take another day to pull together a Deal Lunch, but PublishersMarketplace.com members can view all the deals anytime. And if you have new ones, there’s still time to make the new wrap-up. Register here to view the deals, search our 2,000+ deal database, and get an optional daily deal e-mail See all the latest deals All About BEA The big […]

Pre-BEA Deals Outgoing IBM head Louis Gerstner tells how he turned the company around (and he’s writing it himself), Simon Singh’s latest, A new Zoetrope collection, a look inside the American Catholic Church, two books form a Peabody and Emmy award-winning Univision anchor, the first book buy for Hilary Swank’s new production company, a DeForest Kelley bio, a big first fiction buy, a racy book from a retired teacher on sex after 65, and more live during BEA — all available and searchable at PublishersMarketplace.com, with more live during the day. Register here to view the deals, search our 2,000+ […]