Publishers Lunch

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]