Woody Or Won’t He? The most interesting Frankfurt deal is looking like Woody Allen-in progress, though it’s not clear whether it should really even qualify as a “Frankfurt book.” As best we can cobble together, here’s what has happened: ICM submitted a brief proposal on Friday, in which Allen says that “he is a breaker […]
Lunch for Wednesday, October 8
Deals, Of Course With Frankfurt underway there’s lots of deal news, of course; most newsworthy is the signing of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, at the heart of the controversy over whether the Bush administration leaked news revealing his wife as a covert intelligence agent in retribution for his statements regarding faulty intelligence about Iraq that […]
Lunch for Tuesday, October 7
Generals (and a British office), CEOs, and Lots More General Tommy Franks’ big memoir sale is drawing the headlines today, but B.K.S. Iyengar’s new yoga book got seven figures (and a bio of General Wesley Clark is on the way) — as other deal news includes a big UK buy for a self-published novel, the […]
Lunch for Friday, October 3
More Pre-Frankfurt Deals Catch on all 70 from this week so far, including the 15 or so from just the last day. There’s a big UK fiction auction that’s being submitted in the US now, a golf writer chronicles life in St. Andrews, Scotland, a new look at Thomas Jefferson’s final years, Trevanian’s return, Michael […]
Lunch for Thursday, October 2
Correction I knew better, but yesterday’s report on the changes at Palm accidentally called the original Peanut Press founder and Palm Digital Media director Dave Strobel — it’s really Jeff Strobel (an error amusingly compounded when it was repeated in PW’s quick crib job of my story last night). Lots of Deal News The wave […]
Lunch for Wednesday, October 1
Lots of Deal News Another 18 new deals since yesterday include Jodi Picoult’s latest, a big historical fiction by and lots more first fiction, a bio of C.S. Lewis, future gazing, another Robert Heinlein film option, and lots more. They’re all viewable right now at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, […]