New Deals, Proposals, and More New deals include two books that might star Tom Cruise, why the Yankees have ruined baseball, a first novel of baseball and beyond, and more. The latest rights board proposals include lots of new novels, including a Dickensian look at struggles inside a New England factory by a leading professor…
Lunch for February 7, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More Fascinating new deals include a first fiction pre-empt for a twenty-one-year old student, a novel from Neal Pollack, a biography from Phoebe Hoban, stories of the OSS and the new green berets, global markets post 9/11, and more. The latest rights board proposals include an historical novel that’s sold over…
Lunch for February 6, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More If you’re not part of our Marketplace than you missed news of 12 new deals just yesterday, including a brave trek through Antarctica, a booklover’s travel memoir, a pre-empted novel, a big deal for two TV doctors, a newsmaking memoir, and still more. Plus, every day is bringing lots of…
Lunch for February 5, 2002
Who Is on Top? We’ll have a number of new deals to post later day (it’s a crazy day for me). As noted yesterday, Now every day the PublishersMarketplace.com home page shows the ten most visited member pages of the week. Members can also see Lunch headlines first thing in the morning (before we Lunch…
Lunch for February 4, 2002
Court Stops Tolkien Guide as Houghton Finds Itself on the Other Side of the Infringement Fence Whether or not you believed that THE WIND DONE GONE was deserving of parody protection, it was easy to admire the tenacity of Houghton Mifflin in defending an author who was not destined from the start for the bestseller…
Lunch for February 1, 2002
Deals and Refinements In deals, there’s a Whitbread winner, a “gritty, African-American noir, new books from bestelling author Anne Rule, high-profile first fiction, a provocative book on how American leaves “many observers both admiring and uneasy, envious and appalled, enchanted but bewildered,” movie deals and more, all in the last day. In new proposals, agents…