Please Note Tomorrow’s a travel day for me, so if there’s no Lunch, you won’t be surprised. Among the Very Latest Deals An account of a secret intelligence-gathering mission behind enemy lines during the Korean war that averted a third World War, acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming’s provides an account of the creative process of a […]
Lunch for Friday, March 14
Two Big Looks at Terror, and Much More Pre-London The former leaders of two magazines combine forces for a book on science and technology in the age of terror, a big deal for what’s called the first comprehensive, exhaustively researched and reported account of the terrorists and the plot behind the Sept. 11 attacks from […]
Lunch for Thursday, March 13
Movies, Football, and More Clint Eastwood buys film rights to a manuscript being shopped to publishers later this month and a current bestseller gets picked up for film as well, along with the physics of football, a first fiction pre-empt, and many more new deals — over 50 since the beginning of the week and […]
Lunch for Wednesday, March 12
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 […]