Publishers Lunch

Lots of Deals We’ve e-mailed over 30 deals to PublishersMarketplace.com members in the last two days, including most recently a big deal for new research indicating that men and women have become more similar in attitudes and behavior over the last 30 years, A former NEA chairman on how greed and carelessness are destroying the […]

As warned, short and early wins. Otherwise we’d be serving Lunch for bedtime. Deals Lead the News Yesterday we confirmed the sale of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s memoir to Harper, and a full day of over a dozen reports also includes Amy Tan’s first book of nonfiction, Steven King’s children’s book, a former NPR […]

Tomorrow I’m going on a third grade field trip all morning, so Lunch will either be really early and short or really late. The Latest 10 new reports from yesterday, including a Giller winner’s GARBO LAUGHS, a reprint deal for a German house’s word-of-mouth success and Book Sense 76 pick, America adrift, all about the […]

All the Latest Deal reports are flowing again, with the newest including Context Books rushing a look at “the propaganda that has pushed the US to the brink of war” hoping for another quick bestseller, a six-figure memoir of the “last black widow of the Civil War,” the UK auction for Rene Chun’s Bobby Fischer […]

Plenty of Deals An official welcome back and Happy New Year to everyone. There are lots of deal reports to catch up on, with many new ones recently arrived, including film deals for fiction and non-fiction, a big first fiction sale in the UK already sparking worldwide interest, our times as seen through the lens […]

Canadian Author Challenges US Copyright in Peter Pan Emily Somma, author of AFTER THE RAIN: A New Adventure for Peter Pan, recently published in Canada, has filed a pre-emptive suit in Calfornia to protect her book, asserting that the characters in Peter Pan are now part of the public domain. The question is whether Sir […]