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Our Holiday Diet As noted yesterday, we’ll be giving up Lunch for the bulk of the holidays. We’ll definitely have a meaty deal round-up for you early next week. Our daily deal reporting will continue at PublishersMarketplace.com throughout the holiday period, and probably any timely items will be posted straight to the news pages at the site. By tonight or tomorrow, we’ll have a long list of predictions for 2004 posted exclusively at the web site, and we may add a few more treats. Which makes it a great time to join us a member, and use some of that […]

Kitchen Closings I know the holidays are famous for encouraging overeating, but here at Lunch the kitchen is likely to be closed for long stretches. As usual, our exact schedule is to be determined, but here’s what you can expect: We’ll definitely have a big fat deal round-up for you early next week. Our daily deal reporting will continue at PublishersMarketplace.com throughout the holiday period, and probably any timely items will be posted straight to the news pages at the site (we’ll have another treat or two, also — more on that shortly). Which makes it a great time to […]

Lots of Big Deals As the headline says, they include: A sale for a contributor to the New Yorker’s winter fiction issue, an inspirational memoir from Lance Armstrong’s mother, how Asians parent their children to success, a longtime Essence bestselling author signs with a major house, more YA novels from Marlee Matlin, big sales for a British journalist’s debut novel, a biography of the first female Cabinet member, Buzz Aldrin on American’s future in space, and plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where […]

The Latest Already we’ve got a dozen or so deals new since last night’s big weekly roundup, including the latest from Richard Lederer, a work built on Robert Heinlein’s outline, Metallica’s first official book, and plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of nearly 7,000 deals to analyze editors, agents, houses, trends and more. Our memberships are month-to-month, so you’re never committed for very long (unlike most other […]

The 30 Latest A full 30 new deals since Friday morning include Metallica’s own book, more first fiction, searching for T Rex in the world of fossil collecting, the follow up to This Book Will Change Your Life, a relationship/self-help book from a Sex and the City writer, and of course lots more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of nearly 7,000 deals to analyze editors, agents, houses, trends […]

The Fat Guy, the Big Twins, Bad Poetry and More How often do we get a day (with 20 deals) that includes such projects as a book from a James Beard Award-winning journalist known as the Fat Guy, an anthology of the worst poetry ever written, an investigation of “scripted artifice” that promises in its subtitle “the truth about bulls — t, the life of a Persian rug from creation to market, and more details on Rachel Pine’s TWINS OF TRIBECA, alongside an analysis of suicide terrorism, letters to (and from) Eleanor Roosevelt, the little-known worst defeat in the history […]