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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today’s Deals Once again, there are plenty: another book on the Catholic Church sex scandal, film rights to a book in the Cold Mountain vein (and a UK sale for Charles Frazier), a big audio deal, two large sales for unusual books from establish mystery writers, a former CIA staffer’s book on the brewing confrontation with Iraq — plus a whole lot more, with new deals reported live regularly, for members of PublishersMarketplace.com   To keep up with all the deals all the time, join us now. Register here to view the deals, search our 2,000+ deal database, and get […]

Yes, Still More Deals I know many of you are still digesting last night’s 50-deal-plus Deal Lunch, but we’ve already got another eight deals posted, including a major book on what’s going on with the economy, a big film purchase, a journalist’s look at his father with new eyes, and much more, reported live during the day at PublishersMarketplace.com.   Also, please note that Alix Ohlin was mistakenly reported as the winner of the 2001 Atlantic Monthly’s Student Fiction Contest; Ohlin won in 2000, and Lunch reader Gita Jensen is the 2001 honoree.   To keep up with all the […]

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