Michael Cader

The Biggest Deal News What did you miss from Friday’s deals? The memoir of a firefighter’s widow and her mission to advocate for fellow survivors victims, a biography of America’s first published poet, Larry Brown switches houses, an auction for a book on linguistics that challenges the orthodoxy, secrets of the World’s Fittest Man, and much more — along with dozens of deals from earlier in the week. Look for new reports live during the day, and searchable all the time (our database of transactions now has over 2,500 records, great for researching editors, agents, topics, and seasons), at PublishersMarketplace.com. […]

How Much Proposal Press Will It Take to Sell Canseco’s Book? Jose Canseco is generating a lot of ink for an unsold book proposal, ostensibly to drum up interest though it’s starting to feel like they’re using all of their ammunition long before the proposed book ever comes out. Today’s WSJournal says he is “making a hard pitch to sell book editors on a proposed expose — promising to implicate the major leagues, and further implicate himself, in a widening steroids scandal.” They also note, “All this salesmanship is designed to boost the market for a book proposal that is […]

S&S Children’s Imprints Realigned; New Paperback Publisher to be Named Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Publishing Division announced a restructuring of their imprints into three distinct lines. The biggest change is the creation of a paperback publishing group, comprising the Aladdin and Simon Pulse imprints. For the now the paperback line will report to division president Kristina Peterson, with a publisher expected to be named shortly. Ellen Krieger remains as vp and associate publisher of paperbacks. The move is positioned as the natural outgrowth of the group’s acquisition of the Pocket paperback lines over a year ago, and spokesperson Tracy Van […]

Farkas to BKWU Judi Farkas has left AMG to join Broder Kurland Webb Uffner as a feature literary agent. One of the leading agents in shepherding books to film producers, Variety cites such clients as Colson Whitehead and Leif Enger. Recently, also subsequent to the sale to The Firm, agent Noah Lukeman left AMG/Renaissance to reestablish his independent literary agency. Variety on Farkas Gruner + Jahr Shopping Bertelsmann-owned magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr has an “ambitious plan” for expansion in the US, the WsJournal reports. Potential targets have included BusinessWeek and Primedia, and the company’s “wish list” is said to […]

Big Deals: The Church, Science, Basketball, Fiction, and More Another book on the crisis in the Catholic Church from a high-profile theologian, a splashy new look at the frontiers of physics, a scientific history of noise and its effects on all of us, an NBA All-Star’s story, a new bio of Dylan, a number of big fiction sales, three major CEOs on why being good to the environment and addressing social problems is also good business, and still more — plus new deals live during the day. Isn’t it time to stop missing out and join PublishersMarketplace.com? And our searchable […]

Lots More Deals We sent out 20 new deals to PublishersMarketplace.com members yesterday — the latest include Amitav Gosh’s latest novel, a memoir about trains, a new book from cult star Bruce Campbell, another Larry McMurtry movie in the works, a big book on living a compassionate life, a new holiday book from the Berenstains, a guide for young women with breast cancer, and more — plus new deals live during the day. Isn’t it time to join PublishersMarketplace.com? And our searchable database of transactions now has over 2,500 records — great for researching editors, agents, topics, seasons, and more. […]