New Deals, New Offerings, and More The biggest deal of the day is below, but there’s a big deal for Terry Gross, a major business book, some sizeable fiction deals, a UK home for Sting, and more, all just since yesterday’s Deal Lunch. Join PublishersMarketplace.com and access all the latest deals anytime, as they are reported. Meanwhile, there are a number of new proposals from agents on our rights board. Plus, check out the most visited member pages, track your books’ sales position at Amazon and BN.com and automatically follow them on 11 bestseller lists, search the deal and contact […]
Lunch for February 22, 2002
Deals and More The latest deals include a rush book on Donald Rumsfeld’s leadership wisdom, an insider’s look at Hillary Clinton’s days as First Lady, a scholar on the ideas that conquered the world, fiction from a WWII pilot, and more. Plus, check out the most visited member pages, track your books’ sales position at Amazon and BN.com and automatically follow them on 11 bestseller lists, search the deal and contact databases, get a daily deal e-mail and more — all at PublishersMarketplace.com. And you can still try us out with no obligation for the first week. Try it by […]
Lunch for February 21, 2002
Deals, Offerings, and More In the latest deals, a novelist adds a new movie deal with Billy Bob Thornton starring as his agents prepare to auction a new manuscript; trainers and nutritionists to stars like Britney Spears offer “secrets to total health,” lots of rights deals for Monica Ali’s novel, lessons from Charles Barkley, and more. Meanwhile, new postings on ours rights board include an award-winning science and technology writer’s look at “the fantastic world of nanotechnology with developments and discoveries that read like science fiction.” Plus, check out the most visited member pages, track your books’ sales position at […]
Lunch for February 20, 2002
Dozens of New Deals, and More New books from David Foster Wallace and Colson Whitehead, a lot of big first fiction, a home for Sting, and much more in the Latest Deals at PublishersMarketplace.com. Plus, the site now offers an easy glimpse at the top five or so pages among both agents (now in a category all their own) and industry professionals. From our addictive tracking page, daily deal reporting, deal and contact databases, to the interactive posting boards, searchable member pages and more, we’re trying to building something that works well for everyone. You can still try us with […]
Lunch for February 15, 2002
Note to Readers Not to burden you with more details of my life than necessary, but Lunch will be a bit irregular for the next few days (even more so than usual). Parent’s day today has turned Lunch into breakfast; an extended President’s Day visit to my in-laws means that we may not return until Wednesday (or, alternately, Tuesday’s could be very long — insert rim-shot effect here). Have a good holiday. A New Pullman and More Enron A creative writing student of Philip Pullman sells a children’s novel in the UK for a substantial sum, and a former Enron […]
Lunch for February 13, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More Sizeable new deals include a former Andersen insider’s expose of the culture of greed that’s brought down accounting, the first seven-figure Enron book, a long-awaited Eloise book, a new legal thriller, the fetchingly titled ENTRE NOUS: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl, and more — plus find out about the UK novel that just went to Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella for film rights but has yet to be sold in the U.S. The latest rights board proposal that caught my eye was a published author’s pitch for a literary novel about […]