New Deals Judith signs “the new voice of conservatism,” Marianne Pearl will write her memoir, everyday life in Israel, a Supreme Court clerk’s version of the trial of Lizzie Borden, women at ground zero, a trio of sports books (the business of sports; a chronicle of big league pitchers who suddenly lose their stuff, and a year in the life of a big-time little league football), a big fiction sale, a significant deal for an investigative account of the “dismal state of child psychiatry in America” and still more — all waiting at PublishersMarketplace in advance of another big Deal […]
Lunch for April 12, 2002
New Deals Today’s theme is “another”: as in annother six-figure yoga book, another look at HP and Compaq from a business journalist, and another Shinker author joins him at Penguin; plus an unusual fiction deal with hardcover and softcover rights to two different houses upfront, a few literary fiction sales, a novelists’s memoir, the next Dale Brown movie, and more — over 30 new deals so far this week. Plus, now Marketplace members can read Lunch on the Web and access our new archive of previous Lunches. Try joining us. Register here to view the deals, search our 2,000+ deal […]
Lunch for Thursday, April 11, 2002
New Stuff Starting today, you can access all of Publishers Lunch on a daily basis before it even hits your mailbox (or when you’re away or our system isn’t working very well) at PublishersMarketplace.com, along with a brand-new searchable archive-in-progress (the archive is tiny for now, but it will get bigger). Add that to our addictive tracking script that follows your books at Amazon, BN.com and 11 bestseller lists, our easy-to-post pages that are bringing people lots of real business, our unique contact database for thousands of trade professionals, and the live daily deal reporting (plus daily deal e-mails, and […]
Lunch for March 8, 2002
The Latest Deals, Proposals, and More In the latest deals, Barneys creative director Simon Doonan is fascinated by Wacky Chicks, Al Sharpton finds a home for his campaign book, you can start guessing who will play Rudy!, there’s a new look at the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, and more, including live reports during the day. If you didn’t bookmark our Rights and Proposals Board yet, you might have missed two new psychological thrillers that draw on medical issues, a prisoner of war memoir that portrays a year in the life of a young American POW working on a German […]
Lunch for March 7, 2002
The Latest Deals, Proposals, and More What’s said to be a a groundbreaking investigative work on the asbestos poisoning of America, a new memoir, a Puschart winner’s new novel, and more, all in the latest deals at PublishersMarketplace.com. Meanwhile, if you haven’t bookmarked the Rights and proposals page yet (or if you aren’t using it sell projects), you could be missing out. A whole wave of intriguing new offerings includes everything from a police officer’s story of a three-year undercover investigation in Anaheim’s Little Gaza, a neighborhood controlled by Middle Eastern Organized Crime, to the extensive illustrated diary of a […]
Lunch for March 5, 2002
The Latest Deals, Proposals, and More We have so many new deals listed at PublishersMarketplace.com — 20 just since Monday night’s Deal Lunch — that I don’t know where to begin in teasing you with details (though my favorite remains the surprise home for wrestler Mick Foley’s novel). Please join us and get all the details. Meanwhile, new proposals include two-time Olympic gold medal skating chamption Katarina Witt’s an illustrated book on diet and exercise, which sold over 100,000 copies in Germany last year, available for English language rights. Plus, check out the most visited member pages, track your books’ […]