Publishers Lunch

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Deals and Refinements A new work from “brilliant young British historian and rising star” Lucy Moore and a self-published novel propelled into a big deal after being named a Book Sense 76 pick lead the latest deals at PublishersMarketplace. And our new home page puts a lot of useful features right up front — now […]

Big Deals Lots of news, including a genre-busting combination WWII heroes and survival-at-sea story, more from Noah Adams, high profile fiction series sales, and more. See all the latest deals And Related Proposals In an interesting bit of symmetry, one of the new proposals offered at PublishersMarketplace is a book “relating the harrowing escape by […]

Delivery Update It’s probably more frustrating to me than to you at this point, but we’ve been advised that our e-mail service may not have a suitable solution to the problem of slow delivery of Lunch until this weekend when they’re doing a big system overhaul. Once again thanks for your patience as we work […]