Rapper, Reprint, and Revised History Hans Blix’s book is set up around the world, as Rapper Jay-Z tell his story, plus there’s a reprint for the author who says the DaVinci Code borrows from his book, a revisionist history of President Andrew Johnson, and plenty of fiction are among the dozen latest, and as always […]
Lunch for Wednesday, September 24
Seven Days, Seven Bidders, Seven Figures The auction for Ron McLarty’s Stephen-King-backed MEMORY OF RUNNING has closed, as a British publisher grabs world English rights to the memoir from Saddam Hussein’s former physician, along with the first big foreign sale for Michelle Paver’s six-book fantasy series, a hot Canadian fiction pre-empt, and over 15 more […]
Lunch for Tuesday, September 23
Deal Updates A big UK sale for a new children’s novelist leads the 24-plus deals new since last night’s Lunch Weekly, along with lessons from the Velveteen Rabbit, cartoonist John Byrne’s first book for the Christian market, and of course plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and now well over 6,000 […]
Lunch for Monday, September 22
Deal Updates Among the 17 new deals since last Friday morning are a bestselling British historian’s look at classic English tales, the two-century building of St. Peter’s Basilica, more children’s fantasy, living like the French without having to go there, and still plenty more — with new ones reported live all day, and just under […]
Lunch for Friday, September 19
Significant Day for Deals, If Not News Hurricane Isabel blew most of the publishing news out to sea today, though there’s still plenty of deal action. We’ve got significant deals for Teen People beauty director Tia Williams, novelist Lisa Tucker, former first lady Betty Ford, and the unusual team of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot and a […]
Lunch for Thursday, September 18
The Latest Deals, All the Time Pre-Frankfurt deal reports continue to be strong, with another 16 new ones, including an “Anne-Rice-meets-Nick-Hornby tale,” a new examination of the U.S. government’s dirty war against the American Indian Movement in the 1970s, a George Plimpton reprint, a big film sale for a forthcoming book that has Tom Cruise […]