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Deals Galore US paperback rights are set for the Booker winner (and Finlay’s next novel is apparently called LUDMILLA’S BROKEN ENGLISH) while the US sale is just starting for Jamie Byng’s latest touted first fiction buy (“one of the most assured and understated debuts that I have read in some time”), plus a book and CD package with Johnny Cash’s last interview, the big film sale for Marianne Pearl, more fiction from Kimberla Lawson Roby, a New Yorker writer’s expansion of a recent article, an historical novel from a Pulitzer winner, and still more (almost 25 new ones just since […]

A Tale of Two Novelists (Hemingway and Pamela Anderson) Among the latest deals: Two novels “by” Pamela Anderson, a bio of Dr. Phil, a look at Hemingway’s WWII spy work, Kerik’s film deal, and as usual plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and well over 6,000 in all in our unparalleled archive of deals. Plus you get all of our other great features — an optional daily e-mail, our addictive book tracker to follow your books’ sales positions and cross-reference against bestseller lists, easily postable professional pages, an awesome contact database, the most comprehensive coverage of […]

New Deals, Great Features For over 20 new deals that didn’t make last night’s weekly round-up — including an auction for a McSweeney’s contributor, Potter’s seven-figure lifestyle purchase, American Idol Randy Jackson’s advice, a big fiction deal for a former UK book editor, and plenty more — over at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive, now bursting with well over 6,000 deals. Join us now as a member at PublishersMarketplace to see them all live, search them all any time, and much more — you can Amazoom, […]

Libeskind Memoir On Submission Is it just my imagination, or is it a little trend-in-the-making to start publicizing proposals before the deals close? In any case, architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the new World Trade Center, is circulating a proposal for a memoir about his career, currently called FOUNDATIONS OF OPTIMISM, through agent Scott Mendel. A portion of the earnings will be given to a fund that benefits the children of the victims of the World Trade Center tragedy. And new guy in town Lloyd Grove gives a lengthy plug to a memoir in circulation from screenwriter Elizabeth Anderson, STORMING […]

More Deals, Of Course Among the very latest are Rohinton Mistry’s new novel, the auction for The Art of Survival, a big deal for a Fulbright Fellow’s debut novel, and plenty more, with 60 new ones so far just since Tuesday’s roundup. Join us now as a member to see them all live, search them all any time, and much more — you can Amazoom, track your books faster than ever, search our contact database with thousands of industry leaders (updated every work day), follow all the major reviews with our simple and powerful database, post proposals and customized web […]

Woody Or Won’t He? The most interesting Frankfurt deal is looking like Woody Allen-in progress, though it’s not clear whether it should really even qualify as a “Frankfurt book.” As best we can cobble together, here’s what has happened: ICM submitted a brief proposal on Friday, in which Allen says that “he is a breaker of taboos — the taboo of family, the taboo of race.” He’s also breaking one or two dealmaking taboos, and has indicated that he’ll only actually write the book if publishers give him enough money, without specifying what’s enough of course. HarperCollins UK has officially […]