Publishers Lunch

Halberstam, Delinksy, the Three Wise Men, and Much More In a busy week of reports we’ve got over 20 new deals since yesterday’s Lunch, featuring three new books from David Halberstam (two of them sports related), a new imprint for bestselling author Barbara Delinksy (though still within the same corporate family), a trio of books […]

Notes and Deals I’m not sure why, but today’s dispatch has shaped up as a special catfight edition. The NY Post puts Peter Richmond’s “substantial” deal for a Peggy Lee bio that we posted yesterday at $200,000 — as new deal reports swell with everything from the US version of the controversial Why People Do […]

Peggy Lee, The Countess of Elgin, a Lucky Author, Lots of Fiction, Fitness, Fans, and More With the holiday break we’ve got literally dozens of new deals just since the end of last week, including a rising fitness author switching houses in a four-book deal, a big biography on Peggy Lee, a novelist boosted by […]

The Latest Deals The latest reports include a significant deal for sex expert Lou Paget, a big fiction sale in London, a new book from Gerald May, M.D., (yesterday should have simply indicated a new deal for Mary McGarry Morris, not a new home), and about 65 other transactions in all since our last Deal […]

The Latest Deals A new home for Mary McGarry Morris (and another novelist moves to Putnam from FSG), a bestselling novelist’s daughter takes to the mass market, film rights to Robert Bingham’s novel, why corporations are “legally organized to behave like psychopathic personalities,” and much more — with new deals reported live all the time, […]

The Latest Deals Among the dozen new deals from a yesterday, a VIBE founder’s look at American culture and sexuality (and from another author, an encyclopedia of cool), a big UK sale, Vin Diesel “xxxposed,” the charming confessions of “an old salt,” a big book on spirits, and much more — with new deals reported […]