Yo, Yao; A Menaker Buy; Much More With everyone preparing for the London Book Fair we reported 23 new deals yesterday with surely more to come today: highlights include a non-fiction purchase for Random by Dan Menaker, the story of two seven-foot Chinese basketball players, a major new thriller deal, first fiction at auction and…
Lunch for Tuesday, March 11
Ever More Deals Lots of new deals fresh since last night’s Lunch Weekly, including a big new deal for Mary Jane Clark, multiple promising first fiction sales (one a big UK deal; one a fashion world novel from a women’s magazine writer now living in Australia), a major film buy for a forthcoming thriller, a…
Lunch for Monday, March 10
Lots of New Deals Plenty of interesting deals since Friday and dozens in all in advance of Lunch Weekly, including continuing attention for the founding mothers with a big biography of Martha Washington and a separate project called America’s Revolutionary Mothers, plus the biography of near-contemporary the Marquise du Chatelet, first fiction touted as “a…
Lunch for Friday, March 7
Rock Memoirs, New Fiction, Narrative Non-fiction and More Big pre-London sales continue — get the jump now of dozens of the week’s newest sales, including the uncanny signing of books by both Red Hot Chili Peppers leader Anthony Kiedis and Tommy Lee, hot independent filmmakers The Polish Brothers tell how they do it (and why…
Lunch for Thursday, March 6
I’m late for the train… sorry for the typos… The Latest A big memoir sale at auction, Hot Zone author Richard Preston’s warmer fiction, the US sale for The Knife Man, more from the author of the Bombshell Manual of Style, and as ever, lots of new ones. Make PublishersMarketplace.com your home page (as many…
Lunch for Wednesday, March 5
Lots of New Deals As usual, we’ve got over a dozen new deals to share, including the true story of Navy SEALs in a vicious battle in Afghanistan, A successful web site guides modern military spouses in adjusting to and coping with all aspects of military life, a Page Six writer tells how to become…